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Title: Bobby Jones oral history interview, 1993 March 8
Creator: Jones, Bobby, 1951-
Date Created: 1993-03-08
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Coaching, Professional sports, Sports--Religious aspects--Christianity, Sportsmanship, Christian life, Basketball players--Professional ethics, College sports, College athletes, Basketball fans
Description: Bobby Jones, a former professional player in the NBA, discusses how his faith in Christanity is directly tied to his basketball career. Topics discussed include how his early career in basketball developed his moral and spiritual values and how hi...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 10, 1988 February 4
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1988-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Administration, Community colleges, Wages--College employees, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, College-student veterans
Description: In this fifth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone discusses the transition from Charlotte Ce...

Title: Cameron Morrison Harris oral history interview, 2014 June 12
Creator: Harris, Cameron M. (Cameron Morrison)
Date Created: 2014-06-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Education, Higher, Women in higher education, Community development, Urban
Description: In this interview, Cameron Morrison Harris, long-time resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses his experience growing up in Charlotte and his involvement with UNC Charlotte and ...

Title: Floyd Simmons oral history interview 3, 2004 April 7
Creator: Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-07
Subjects--Topical: War, Veterans, Universities and colleges, College sports, College students, College-student veterans, Decathlon, Decathlon--Training, Athletes, Olympics, Olympic athletes, Motion pictures, Acting, Photography
Description: In this last of three interviews, Floyd "Chunk" Simmons discusses his activities after serving in World War II, including his time in the Olympics and in Hollywood as an actor. After the war, Mr. Simmons attended the University of North Carolina a...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 2, 2012 March 28
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2012-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Students, Teachers
Description: In this interview, Jack Claiborne, long-time reporter and editor with The Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares his recollections of Bonnie Cone, Charlotte College'...

Title: Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 1, 2017 January 24
Creator: Williams, Rob, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-01-24
Subjects--Topical: Gay community, Gay men, Gay men--Intellectual life, Gay men--Sexual behavior, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay teachers, Homophobia, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview contains discussion of suicide, domestic violence, and rape beginning at 42:00 and ending at 47:00. In this first of two interviews, Rob Williams discusses his early life as a young gay man living in Chapel Hill and Charlot...

Title: Timothy Gibbs oral history interview, 2021 August 16
Creator: Gibbs, Timothy D.
Date Created: 2021-08-16
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, City planning, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: In this interview Timothy Gibbs describes in great detail his life from high school to attending UNC Charlotte from 1978 to 1983. [All Times Approximate]. His decision to attend the University of North Carolina Charlotte after graduating from West...

Title: Tom Scott oral history interview, 1993 July 2
Creator: Scott, Tom, 1908-1993
Date Created: 1993-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, College sports, College athletes--Scholarships, fellowships, etc., Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball--Economic aspects, Television broadcasting of sports, Discrimination in sports, African Americans--Segregation, Basketball players
Description: Tom Scott describes his coaching career and his role as the NCAA Basketball Committee chairman, in which he helped bring many basketball tournament events to North Carolina. Mr. Scott talks about his career as head coach for both UNC Chapel Hill a...

Title: William T. Alexander oral history interview 2, 1992 April 25
Creator: Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
Date Created: 1992-04-05
Subjects--Topical: Rural schools, Public schools, Education, Education, Rural, Rich people, School children--Transportation, Student activities, Corporal punishment of children, Universities and colleges, College students, Amusements
Description: In this second of three interviews, William T. Alexander describes his education and schooling in Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina during the early twentieth century. Mr. Alexander describes attending different school...