McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006

Causby, Anna

McCall, Johnston V. (Johnston Vannoy), 1902-1993

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1979-05-24

1 audio file (11:08) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (7 pages : PDF)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Alice M. McCall was a 66-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1912. She was educated at Queens College and was a business owner and teacher.

Alice M. McCall recounts growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s to the 1930s. Topics discussed include her father's tailoring business, playing pranks on streetcar drivers as a child, memories of the end of World War I, changes in uptown Charlotte, and her displeasure at having to transfer to Queens College because it was a women's college.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on reel to reel, duplicate compact disc reformatted.

Teachers
Businesswomen

McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006

Queens College (Charlotte, N.C.)

World War (1914-1918)

Entrepreneurship
Cable cars (Streetcars)
Radio
Single-sex schools

North Carolina--Charlotte

Interviews
Oral histories

1910-1980

Ed Perzel WSOC project on twentieth century Charlotte

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audio/mpeg

Johnston V. McCall oral history interview, May 24, 1979, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A1565)

OH-MC0104

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:423