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Title: Alma Blake oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Blake, Alma, approximately 1918-
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, African American basketball players, School sports, Sex role, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching
Description: Former player and coach Alma Blake discusses her life-long involvement with basketball. Throughout the interview, Ms. Blake discusses gender and the game as she reflects upon her own unwillingness to participate in high school basketball under "gi...

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: Bailey Patrick oral history interview, 2021 November 18
Creator: Patrick, Bailey
Date Created: 2021-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Christianity and culture, Commercial real estate
Description: Charlotte native Bailey Patrick played a key role in assembling land for several Charlotte Y projects, most notably the Stratford Richardson branch. The interview covered those efforts as well as discussions of racial diversity within the YMCA and...

Title: Bill E. Bost oral history interview, 1993 March 15
Creator: Bost, Bill E. (Billy Earl), 1932-1995
Date Created: 1993-03-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Basketball coaches, Teamwork (Sports), Basketball--Coaching, Basketball for women--Coaching, Basketball teams, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Basketball--Social aspects, Basketball teams, Basketball stories
Description: Former player, coach, and educator Bill Bost discusses his personal experiences around the game of basketball. Living and coaching in Catawba County, North Carolina, Mr. Bost explains the pivotal role basketball serves in a small town, where playe...

Title: Burrell Brown oral history interview, 1993 March 31
Creator: Brown, Burrell P. (Burrell Peterson), Jr., 1917-2001
Date Created: 1993-03-31
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, African American schools, African Americans--Segregation, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball coaches, Basketball for children, Discipline of children, School sports--Social aspects, Sports uniforms, Basketball players, Basketball for girls, Basketball stories, Basketball--Training
Description: Burrell Brown shares his memories of coaching basketball at Ridgeview High School, a segregated school for African American students in Hickory, North Carolina, beginning in 1948. He discusses how he improved his coaching by reading books by notab...

Title: Carlenia Ivory oral history interview, 2021 July 22
Creator: Ivory, Carlenia
Date Created: 2021-07-22
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Civil rights, Fund raising
Description: Carlenia Ivory came to Charlotte in 1969 to attend Johnson C. Smith University. She met and married Titus Ivory, who was part of an activist family that participated in many civil rights endeavors in Charlotte and Rock Hill, South Carolina. Ms. Iv...

Title: Cedric Thomas oral history interview, 1993 March 12
Creator: Thomas, Cedric
Date Created: 1993-03-12
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Basketball, Youth league basketball, Sportsmanship, Basketball for children, Swimming, Problem youth, Problem youth--Services for, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Cedric Thomas shares his experiences as the executive program director at the McCrorey YMCA in Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in 1990. He discusses how the YMCA implements Christian principles into their programs, provides activities for its ...

Title: Charles McCullough oral history interview, 1993 August 30
Creator: McCullough, Charles, 1932 or 1933-2017
Date Created: 1993-08-30
Subjects--Topical: School sports, Track and field, Basketball, School sports--Coaching, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball players, School integration, Basketball for girls, Basketball for women
Description: Charles McCullough discusses his experiences playing high school and college sports, and his career as athletics coach at West Charlotte High School beginning in the 1960s. He attended West Charlotte High School as well as coaching there as an adu...

Title: Dan Davis oral history interview, 1993 November 10
Creator: Davis, Dan S. (Daniel Shaw), 1905-2000
Date Created: 1993-10-12
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Tournaments, School sports, Basketball players, Basketball teams, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball for women, Basketball stories, Transportation
Description: Dan Davis describes playing and coaching basketball in and around Union County, North Carolina. After his graduation from UNC Chapel Hill in 1928, he came back to Union County to teach and coach men's and women's basketball, as well as baseball. H...

Title: Dean Jones oral history interview, 2021 April 7
Creator: Jones, Dean
Date Created: 2021-04-07
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Fund raising, Social integration, Equality, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects
Description: Dean Jones, a graduate of Davidson College, was hired in 2000 to create a formalized fundraising department for the Charlotte YMCA. He began the interview with a discussion of the tutoring program Project Starfish, one of the Y's early effort...

Title: Denny Hammack oral history interview, 2021 September 23
Creator: Hammack, Denny
Date Created: 2021-09-23
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Gentrification
Description: Longtime YMCA board member Denny Hammack has been especially involved with the Johnston YMCA, which began as a project of the Johnston Mill in the early 1950s. The North Charlotte area, now known as North Davidson or NoDa, has undergone many chang...

Title: Elizabeth Callaway oral history interview, 1993 March 11
Creator: Callaway, Elizabeth McCall, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1993-03-11
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Country life
Description: Elizabeth McCall Callaway talks about learning to play basketball and her memories of playing on school teams in Catawba County and Charlotte, North Carolina. She played basketball starting in the seventh grade in Catawba County and played for fou...

Title: Elizabeth Stratford Newitt oral history interview 1, 1992 December 7
Creator: Newitt, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Stratford), 1905-1999
Date Created: 1992-12-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, School sports--Management, Basketball stories, Basketball--Social aspects, School sports, Basketball uniforms
Description: Elizabeth Stratford Newitt recounts her experiences playing basketball at Alexander Graham High School in Charlotte, North Carolina during the early 1920s. She discusses playing on the girls' high school basketball team and her role as the team’s ...

Title: Erin Mackie and Renée Mackie oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Mackie, Erin
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Women basketball players, Basketball teams, Sports--Social aspects, School sports
Description: High school student Erin Mackie and her mother Renée Mackie talk about Erin's experiences as a female basketball player at Bandys High School in Catawba, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Erin's early memories of falling in love with the sp...

Title: Fred Ashford oral history interview 1, 2021 July 1
Creator: Ashford, Fred
Date Created: 2021-07-01
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Sports, Mills and mill-work
Description: Fred Ashford's first contact with the YMCA came in the summer of 1952, when he was invited to play baseball for the Johnston textile mill and run youth programs for the then-fledgling Johnston YMCA. He subsequently decided to make the Y a car...

Title: Fred Ashford oral history interview 2, 2021 July 29
Creator: Ashford, Fred
Date Created: 2021-07-29
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Community development, Mills and mill-work, Recreation
Description: Fred Ashford's first contact with the YMCA came in the summer of 1952, when he was invited to play baseball for the Johnston textile mill and run youth programs for the then-fledgling Johnston YMCA. He subsequently decided to make the Y a car...

Title: Gladys Worthy oral history interview, 1993 May 6
Creator: Worthy, Gladys, 1931-1994
Date Created: 1993-05-06
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball players, Basketball stories, School sports, Basketball--Tournaments, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, High school student activities, Parenting
Description: Gladys Worthy, a former basketball player for Highland High School in Gastonia, North Carolina during the 1948-1950 seasons, recalls her sports career. She reflects on the many advantages high school basketball afforded her, including the chance t...

Title: Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball panel discussion, 1996 March 3
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1996-03-30
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers, Softball
Description: Historian Pamela Grundy leads a panel discussion at the Levine Museum of the New South with four former members of the Hanes Hosiery women's basketball team, Mildred "Milly" Baugess, Evelyn "Eckie" Jordan, Eunies Futch, and Hazel Phillips, who pla...

Title: Harvey Gantt oral history interview, 2021 July 6
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 2021-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Social integration, Race discrimination
Description: Harvey Gantt settled in Charlotte, North Carolina in the early 1970s after becoming the first African American to attend Clemson University, where he studied architecture and urban planning. He became a key figure in Charlotte's business and ...

Title: Herman Cunningham oral history interview, 1993 September 7
Creator: Cunningham, Herman, 1928-2018
Date Created: 1993-09-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Basketball teams, Basketball--Tournaments, School sports--Social aspects, Segregation in education, Sports for women, Country life, School discipline
Description: Herman Cunningham recounts playing on the basketball team during the 1940s at Winchester High School, a segregated school for African Americans in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. Cunningham describes how the school partially burned down in the 1930s a...