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Title: Alvin C. Jacobs oral history interview, 2019 December 13
Creator: Jacobs Jr., Alvin C.
Date Created: 2019-12-13
Subjects--Topical: Photography, Artistic, Protest movements, Social justice, Racism, Police shootings
Description: Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr. is a professional photographer and image activist from Rockford, Illinois. In this interview, Mr. Jacobs discusses his life from childhood to adulthood and how particular events during his life influenced him. He details how h...

Title: Aman Agah oral history interview, 2020 May 29
Creator: Agah, Aman
Date Created: 2020-05-29
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, College students, Universities and colleges--Administration, Gun control, Homicide--Prevention, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Communication in crisis management, Public safety
Description: Aman Agah, adjunct faculty in Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies at UNC Charlotte, shares their experience at UNC Charlotte on April 30th, 2019 and how they connected with students and felt concern in the aftermath of the ca...

Title: Amy Foster oral history interview, 2019
Creator: Foster, Amy, 1965-
Date Created: 2019-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Livestock, Farms, Cattle, Chickens, Farmers' markets, Social media, Urbanization
Description: Amy Foster discusses her twelve years as a livestock farmer and co-owner of Gilcrest Natural Farm in Iron Station, North Carolina. Mrs. Foster describes how her desire to control her food and develop her land were factors that led her to become a ...

Title: Andrea Pitts oral history interview, 2021, November 17
Creator: Pitts, Andrea J.
Date Created: 2021-11-17
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Philosophy, Mexican, College teachers, LGBTQ+ employment
Description: Dr. Andrea Pitts, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte, discusses their personal background and how that has affected the way they think about the world and the current problems facing Latinx students at the University. On their moth...

Title: Andrew P. Haywood oral history interview 3, 1997 November 4
Creator: Haywood, Andrew Perry, 1933-2006
Date Created: 1997-11-04
Subjects--Topical: High schools--Administration, High school principals, School integration, Race relations in school management, Teacher-student relationships
Description: Dr. Andrew "Sam" Haywood discusses his role as principal of Independence and West Charlotte High Schools and as chairman of county high school principals during the turbulent years of desegregation. He describes the benefits of desegregation and r...

Title: Andy Baxter oral history interview, 1999 June 29
Creator: Baxter, Andy
Date Created: 1999-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Students, Public schools, School integration, Student government, Segregation in education, Race relations
Description: Andy Baxter talks about his experiences as a student at West Charlotte High School, where he was student council president in his senior year. Mr. Baxter reflects on his experiences with racial integration at the school, speaking at length about t...

Title: Andy Calhoun oral history interview, 2021 April 6
Creator: Calhoun, Andy
Date Created: 2021-04-06
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Equality, Social problems--Economic aspects
Description: Andy Calhoun spent his entire career at the Charlotte YMCA. He started as an assistant youth director in 1972 and retired as CEO in 2016. During that time, he helped manage an era of rapid growth of the Charlotte YMCA, which paralleled the tremend...

Title: Angel Truesdale oral history interview, 2020 December 2
Creator: Truesdale, Angel
Date Created: 2020-12-02
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, University Librarian, Political participation
Description: Angel Truesdale shares her experience as an undergraduate student at UNC Charlotte from Spring 2004 to 2008. [All times approximate] She shares her decision to come to UNC Charlotte as a native of Charlotte [2:20], her experience as a commuter stu...

Title: Ann Carver oral history interview 1, 2018 February 22
Creator: Carver, Ann C.
Date Created: 2018-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Charlotte Three, African Americans--Education
Description: Dr. Ann Carver recounts her formative years, her college experiences, and her career at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses how the tragic death of her husband served as a turning point in her life, and how her subsequent ...

Title: Ann Carver oral history interview 2, 2023 April 12
Creator: Carver, Ann C.
Date Created: 2023-04-12
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies--Curricula, Women in education, Sex discrimination against women, Africana studies
Description: Dr. Ann Carver discusses the development of the Women and Gender Studies Program at UNC Charlotte in the 1970s, illustrating the attitude towards women at the University at the time and the initiative of the female students who catalyzed the devel...

Title: Ann Mabe Newman, Dona Harton Haney, and nursing colleagues oral history interview, 2017 June 6
Creator: Haney, Dona Harton
Date Created: 2017-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Nursing, Nurses, Nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing schools--Faculty, Nursing schools--Curricula, Medicine
Description: Dr. Ann Newman, and Dona Haney organized this interview as part of their research into the history of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing in preparation to write and publish a book to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the school in 2018, (Ms. ...

Title: Ann Williams and Jim Williams oral history interview, 2018, November 29
Creator: Williams, Ann, 1940-2020
Date Created: 2018-11-29
Subjects--Topical: Plantations, Historical reenactments, History--Research, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: Ann and Jim Williams talk about their shared experiences as historical researchers, reenactors, and authors of local history books related to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Major themes of their discussion include slavery and the lives of ens...

Title: Ann Williams oral history interview, 2018, November 29
Creator: Williams, Ann, 1940-2020
Date Created: 2018-11-29
Subjects--Topical: Relations with slaves, Plantations, Letters, Slavery, Hand weaving, Agricultural laborers, History--Research, Enslavement
Description: Ann Williams reflects on her path to becoming an antebellum historian. She describes how the growth of her interest, research, and immersion in her subject led to her publishing multiple books. [All times approximate] [0:00:45] Introduction to his...

Title: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt oral history interview, 1993 June 1
Creator: Heafner, Anna Lou, 1920-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-01
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball players, School sports, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Country life
Description: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt describe their experiences playing basketball in the Steele Creek area of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (now part of Charlotte) during the 1930s. They talk about how many of the girls w...

Title: Anne Batten oral history interview, 1993 July 26
Creator: Batten, Anne, 1914-2006
Date Created: 1993-07-26
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, High school teaching, History--Study and teaching, History--Societies, etc., School integration
Description: Anne Batten discusses growing up in the Dilworth community in Charlotte, North Carolina, her career as a teacher, and the role she played in historic preservation in Mecklenburg County. Subjects include teaching English, French, and history in rur...

Title: Anne Steele oral history interview, 2015 April 11
Creator: Steele, Anne, 1930-
Date Created: 2015-04-11
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: Anne Steele recalls initially moving to the Historic Washington Heights community in Charlotte North Carolina to provide assistance to her aging aunt in the 1990s. Thinking about the twenty years she has spent living in the neighborhood, she remem...

Title: Annie Diggs oral history interview, 2001 October 30
Creator: Diggs, Annie Mae, 1926-2008
Date Created: 2001-10-30
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Chores, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, Cooking, American
Description: Annie Mae Diggs recalls growing up in the country in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, helping to found the Wilmore Community Garden in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her relationship with gardening. She discusses cho...

Title: Anson Eaves oral history interview, 2019 March 28
Creator: Eaves, Anson E. (Anson Eugene), 1970-
Date Created: 2019-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Feed mills, Livestock, Farms
Description: Anson Eaves, owner and operator of Bethel Feed & Farm in Midland, North Carolina, discusses the past, current, and future operations of the feed mill, a third generation business originally owned by his grandfather. The interview covers a variety ...

Title: Anthony Simmons oral history interview, 2021 February 22
Creator: Simmons, Anthony Levon
Date Created: 2021-02-22
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, City planners, Out-of-state students
Description: UNC Charlotte alumnus Anthony Simmons discusses his experience as a student between 1998 and 2002. [All times are approximate]. Introduction and personal background growing up in Anniston, Alabama [:59]. Decision to apply to UNC Charlotte as an ou...

Title: Anthony Zeiss oral history interview, 2013 January 14
Creator: Zeiss, Anthony
Date Created: 2013-01-14
Subjects--Topical: State bonds, Campus planning
Description: Dr. Anthony (Tony) Zeiss, president of Central Piedmont Community College, (CPCC), in Charlotte North Carolina from 1992-2016, discusses his association with Chancellor James H. Woodward of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (UNC Charl...