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Title: Cindy Leggett oral history interview, 2006 April 1
Creator: Leggett, Cindy C. (Cindy Correll), 1949-
Date Created: 2006-04-01
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, Education, Middle class families, Physicians, Medical offices, Race relations, Segregation--Social aspects
Description: Cindy Leggett recalls her early life growing up and attending school in Kannapolis, North Carolina during the mid-twentieth century. She describes her parents' expectations towards education and how her father served as her role model and influenc...

Title: Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 1, Date 2018 April 18
Creator: Ruff, Ellen T. (Ellen Tarte)
Date Created: 2018-04-18
Subjects--Topical: Stuttering, Public schools, Law schools, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description: In this first of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses her earliest childhood memories of her life in rural Connecticut and what she knows about her family's history. Ms. Ruff goes int...

Title: Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 2, Date 2018, April 20
Creator: Ruff, Ellen, T.
Date Created: 2018-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Job hunting, Contracts, Legal assistance to the poor, Nuclear power plants, Trade regulation, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description: In this second of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses how she met her husband in law school at UNC Chapel Hill, their relationship, and his background before they met. She also talks abou...

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: 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...