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Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 1, Date 2018 April 18
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...
James William Kirk oral history interview 1, 2013 October 7
Title
James William Kirk oral history interview 1, 2013 October 7
Creator
Kirk, James William, 1925-2014
Date Created
2013-10-07
Subjects--Topical
Dairy farms, Farm life, Education, Rural, Rural development, Volunteer fire departments, Grand jury
Description
In this first of two interviews, James Kirk begins by tracing the history of the Kirk family from their Scottish roots to their settling in the Newell community of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and what would eventually become the University...
John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2011 September 6
Title
John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2011 September 6
Creator
Miller, John S. (John Sutton), Jr., 1930-2021
Date Created
2011-09-06
Subjects--Topical
Rest homes, Rest homes--Administration, Nursing home patients, Farms, Agriculture, African Americans--Segregation
Description
In this interview John Miller, Jr., Superintendent of Green Acres Rest Home in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1961 to 1982, describes what life was like at the Mecklenburg County Home (later Green Acres Rest Home) during his childhood years when ...
Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 1, 2017 November 10
Title
Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 1, 2017 November 10
Creator
Bailey, Sandra, 1940-
Date Created
2017-11-10
Subjects--Topical
Lesbians
Description
In this interview, Sandra Bailey, who has been active in the LGBTQ community in Charlotte North Carolina since the early 1970s, briefly discusses her childhood in Alabama, and her parents, Nila and Stokley Bailey, who were founding members of the ...
Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 2, 2018 January 22
Title
Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 2, 2018 January 22
Creator
Bailey, Sandra, 1940-
Date Created
2018-01-22
Subjects--Topical
LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ culture
Description
In this second of three interviews, Sandra Bailey discusses her childhood and college years in Jackson Mississippi and Memphis Tennessee, her adjustment to her sexual orientation during her adolescence, her experiences living as a lesbian in Las V...