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Charles Jones oral history interview 1, 2005 May 18
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Creator
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Jones, Charles, 1937-
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Date Created
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2005-05-18
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights--Religious aspects, Racism, Segregation, Nonviolence
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J. Charles Jones--civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)--recounts his early life growing up in the Carolinas and his involvement in the civil rights movement. A native of ...
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Communist Workers Party cartoon
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Creator
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Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
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Date Created
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1979-11-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Communism, Communists, Mass shootings, Political violence, Cities and towns--Politics and government
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Topics include: Communist Workers Party; Communism; Ku Klux Klan; Mass shootings; Political violence; Greensboro (North Carolina) politics and government
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Ed DePasquale oral history interview, 2016 October 19
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Creator
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DePasquale, Ed, 1933-2019
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Date Created
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2016-10-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Italian Americans, Stores, Retail--Management, Gay men, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Racism, Gay men--Family relationships, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Christianity, Gay relationships
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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...
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Harold Pulley oral history interview 3, 2012 July 18
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Creator
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Pulley, Harold
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Date Created
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2012-07-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil rights movement, Peace movements, College students, African American college students--Political activity, African American college students--Attitudes, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Racism in education, Race relations--Education (Higher)
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In this third of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley discusses his student experience at UNC Charlotte during the late 1960s and his connection to the civil rights movement in North Carolina. He describes Bonnie Cone's manner of speaking and i...
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J. Daniel White oral history interview 2, 2018 May 14
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Creator
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White, J. Daniel
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Date Created
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2018-05-14
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Subjects--Topical
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Protest movements, Race relations, Hate groups
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In this second of two interviews, Dr. J. Daniel White gives additional reflections on his life and his work as a professor in the Religious Studies Department at UNC Charlotte. [All times are approximate] [00:00] He describes a startling experienc...
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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 1, 2017 October 6
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Creator
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Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
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Date Created
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2017-10-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Slavery, Christian life, Football, Segregation in education, Segregation, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football), Bombings
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In this first of four related interviews, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick discuss their disparate experiences growing up and attending school in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick ta...
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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 3, 2017 October 23
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Creator
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Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
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Date Created
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2017-10-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Racism, Slavery, Genealogy, Poverty, African Americans--Reparations, Football, Enslavement
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In this third of four related interviews,, H.D. Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick continue to discuss their relationship as it developed after their revelation that their family histories are connected through slavery in Charlotte and Mecklen...
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Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
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Creator
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Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
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Date Created
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2004-11-20
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
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Description
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Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...
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Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
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Creator
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Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
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Date Created
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1994-10-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
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Albemarle native Lucille Harwood recounts her experiences during the Great Depression, World War II, and the second half of the twentieth century. She describes growing up very poor during the Depression, but explains how families would always sha...
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Margi Goldstein oral history interview, 1992 February 3
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Creator
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Goldstein, Margi L., 1932-
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Date Created
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1992-02-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish religious education, Jewish way of life, Jewish leadership
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In this interview, Margi Goldstein shares her experiences as a Jew in Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in the 1950s. She describes her involvement in various Jewish organizations and has recently renewed her volunteering as a result of a trip t...
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Margi Goldstein oral history interview, 1992 February 3
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Goldstein, Margi L., 1932-
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Date Created
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1992-02-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish religious education, Jewish way of life, Jewish leadership, Jews--Political activity, Zionism, Antisemitism, School integration--Public opinion
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In this interview, Margi Goldstein shares her experiences as a Jew in Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in the 1950s. She describes her involvement in various Jewish organizations and has recently renewed her volunteering as a result of a trip t...
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Mary Lou Clarke oral history interview, 2001 May 11
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Clarke, Mary Lou, 1932-2006
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Date Created
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2001-05-11
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Subjects--Topical
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Segregation, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Boycotts, Health promotion, AIDS activists, Medical assistants, Nurses' aides
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Mary Clarke, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP president (1986-1990), describes her experiences working for the NAACP from the 1950s to the 1990s, with attention given to her early role as a fundraiser and her later work as chapter president. Ms. Clarke...
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Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 1, 2004 November 5
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Creator
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Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
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Date Created
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2004-11-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
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Peggy Scoggin Holland recalls memories of her father, Robert E. Scoggin, particularly in regard to his role as a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina. Mrs. Holland describes her childhood perspective of Klan rallies as social events ...
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Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 2, 2005 July 26
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Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
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Date Created
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2005-07-26
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Subjects--Topical
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White supremacy movements, Anti-communist movements, Right-wing extremists, Political persecution, People with disabilities--Family relationships, Prisoners, Prisoners--Employment
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In this second interview, mortgage bank accountant Peggy Scoggin Holland defends her father Robert Scoggin, a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Mrs. Holland begins by describing her father's work history, time in the Navy, and views o...
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Price Davis oral history interview 1, 2004 May 25
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Davis, Price, 1920-
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Date Created
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2004-05-25
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Subjects--Topical
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African American schools, African American teachers, Segregation in education, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Police brutality, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Political and social views
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Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and ...
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Price Davis oral history interview 2, 2004 March 19
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Davis, Price, 1920-
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Date Created
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2004-03-19
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, Segregation, Segregation in education, African Americans--Civil rights, Police brutality, African American police, Race discrimination
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Price Davis discusses his memories of living in the Cherry neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and visiting the nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward. He shares fond memories of Brooklyn, including attending Second Ward Hig...
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Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 2, 2001 May 9
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Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
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Date Created
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2001-05-09
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Subjects--Topical
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African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Household employees, Housing, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation, School integration
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Thereasea Elder recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte throughout the twentieth century, as well as her forty-five years as a nurse. Growing up in a segregated Charlotte, she describes life in the close-knit African American...
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Thereasea Elder oral history interview 3, 2004 March 7
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Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
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Date Created
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2004-03-07
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Discrimination in public accommodations, Health facilities, Race relations, Urban renewal, Cities and towns--Growth
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Thereasea Elder shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, as well as the Greenville neighborhood where she grew up. She talks about the United House of Prayer for All People and its r...
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Tom Gilmore oral history interview, 1996 September 29
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Creator
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Gilmore, Thomas Odell, Sr., 1936-
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Date Created
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1996-09-29
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, Political participation, Legislation
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Description
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Tom Gilmore discusses his career in North Carolina politics and in his family business, Gilmore Plant and Bulb. Born in Julian, North Carolina in 1936, he describes being very close as a young boy to an African American boy of the same age. Mr. Gi...
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Viola Boyd oral history interview 1, 2004 March 9
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Creator
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Boyd, Viola, 1911-2009
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Date Created
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2004-03-09
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Racism, Beauty operators, Beauty shops, Railroads--Employees, Child labor
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Viola Boyd describes her life as an African American woman during segregation and the civil rights movement. Mrs. Boyd describes Matthews, North Carolina, and in particular the Crestdale neighborhood where she lived and grew up. She speaks frequen...