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Title: Ed DePasquale oral history interview, 2016 October 19
Creator: DePasquale, Ed, 1933-2019
Date Created: 2016-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Italian Americans, Stores, Retail--Management, Gay men, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Racism, Gay men--Family relationships, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Christianity, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview includes language that many may find offensive, including racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic statements. Ed DePasquale discusses his life as a gay man in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past sixty y...

Title: Ellen M. Little oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Little, Ellen M.
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Amusements, Evangelicalism, Presbyterian Church, Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity, Race relations
Description: Ellen Little discusses her experience of attending a Billy Graham crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1972 and the impact it had on her spiritual development. A teenager at the time of the revival, Ms. Little describes the points of Dr. Graham...

Title: Jean Graham Ford oral history interview, 1996 June 6
Creator: Ford, Jean Graham, 1932-
Date Created: 1996-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Christian life, Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Presbyterianism, Revivals, City and town life
Description: Jean Ford, sister of Reverend Billy Graham, describes her life growing up on the Graham Brothers Dairy Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, including work and leisure activities. Ms. Ford talks about the important role religion played in her family'...

Title: Lawrence E. Funderburk oral history interview, 1996 April 24
Creator: Funderburk, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edward), 1920-2012
Date Created: 1996-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Evangelicalism, Baptists, Christianity, Christian life, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Clergy, God (Christianity)
Description: Reverend Lawrence Funderburk, a local Charlotte minister, recounts his involvement with the Billy Graham Crusades in Charlotte, particularly the 1958 Crusade, and his role in the Southern Baptist Convention. He shares his thoughts about Reverend B...

Title: Leighton Ford oral history interview, 2023 March 21
Creator: Ford, Leighton
Date Created: 2023-03-21
Subjects--Topical: YMCA of the USA, Christianity, Organizational behavior--Religious aspects--Christianity, Christian leadership, Mentoring, Race relations
Description: Mr. Leighton Ford, an internationally active evangelist who worked closely with his brother-in-law Billy Graham, discusses the expansion and development of the Charlotte YMCA in North Carolina and the changes that occurred within the organization ...

Title: Maggie Massey Freeman oral history interview, 1996 June 4
Creator: Freeman, Maggie Massey, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1996-06-04
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Sharecropping, Segregation, Segregation in education, Christian life, Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Revivals, African Americans--Civil rights, Nursing, Political planning--Citizen participation, Race relations
Description: Maggie Freeman discusses her life in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her childhood as a sharecropper's daughter on the farmland of William Franklin Graham Sr., father of Reverend Billy Graham. She addresses family life and children's leisure activi...

Title: Rosemary J. Lands oral history interview, 1996 April 8
Creator: Lands, Rosemary J.
Date Created: 1996-04-08
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Evangelicalism, City and town life, Business enterprises--Religious aspects, Amphitheaters
Description: Long-time Charlottean Rosemary Lands discusses her and her family's experiences with the 1958 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, which she attended at the age of twelve. Ms. Lands details the planning and community involvement prio...