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Title: Arneichia Green oral history interview, 2016 April 20
Creator: Green, Arneichia, 1965-
Date Created: 2016-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Arneichia Green discusses the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she has lived since 1997. She stresses her appreciation for the opportunity to move into a Habitat home through the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project...

Title: Betty Ladner oral history interview, 2020 July 2
Creator: Ladner, Elizabeth H., 1948-
Date Created: 2020-07-02
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, First responders, Campus police, Medical informatics, Emergency communication systems
Description: Betty Ladner, recently retired Executive Director of External Relations and longtime member of the Senior Management Team for the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte reflects on her career and details her experiences on April 30, 2019. Ms. L...

Title: Byron Harris oral history interview 2021 June 29
Creator: Harris, Byron L. (Byron Lee)
Date Created: 2021-06-29
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
Description: In this interview, Byron Harris, who holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses his life experiences and time as an undergraduate student. [All time approximate]. Growing up in Raleig...

Title: Courtney Gaillard oral history interview, 2020 November 12
Creator: Gaillard, Courtney
Date Created: 2020-11-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, African American college students
Description: In this interview, Courtney Gaillard, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte shares memories of her time as a student from 1995-1997. [All time approximate] She discusses her decision to transfer to the university after having ...

Title: David Dixon oral history interview, 2020 December 21
Creator: Dixon, David, 1991-
Date Created: 2020-12-21
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Black lives matter movement, Nonprofit organizations--Political activity
Description: In the interview, David Dixon, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte discusses his time as a student from 2012-2015. [All times approximate] first impressions of campus [6:08], working on campus [14:07], being a political org...

Title: Debbie Warren oral history interview 3, 2016 September 26
Creator: Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
Date Created: 2016-09-26
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Care, Faith, Gay activists, Hospitals--Case management services, Nonprofit organizations--Finance
Description: In this third interview, Reverend Debbie Warren, founder and CEO of the Regional Interfaith AIDS Network (RAIN) in Charlotte, North Carolina, focuses on the importance of care team work conducted by RAIN. For many years, RAIN's core care team...

Title: Emanuel Osei oral history interview, 2021 January 12
Creator: Osei, Emanuel
Date Created: 2021-01-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, African students
Description: In this interview Emanuel Osei recalls memories of his early life and times as a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. [All times approximate] Mr. Osei discusses his transition and adjustment to college [3:10:29], memorable cou...

Title: Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
Creator: Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
Date Created: 2016-12-16
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
Description: In this interview, Frances C. Kerr recounts her involvement in the process by which Myers Park Baptist Church adopted an LGBTQ affirming policy in 2002, her reasons for wanting to make this policy happen, and how this has changed her life as a chu...

Title: George Little oral history interview, 2015 November 11
Creator: Little, George, 1992-
Date Created: 2015-11-11
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility, Race relations
Description: George Little shares his experiences growing up in the Optimist Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, where his parents built their home with Habitat for Humanity. Having lived in the neighborhood for twenty-three years, he discusses bei...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 1, 2014 October 2
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2014-10-02
Subjects--Topical: Archives, LGBTQ+ archives, Gay rights, Gay liberation movement, Gay community, LGBTQ+ people
Description: Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, describes his work and efforts in collecting local LGBTQ history and the process of initiating the King Henry Brockington LG...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 2, 2016 March 13
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2016-03-13
Subjects--Topical: Archivists, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay activists, Gay community, Gay men, Gay liberation movement, Gay youth--Suicidal behavior, LGBTQ+ people
Description: Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, recalls his life growing up in Alabama and his passion for collecting queer history. He discusses the reasons for and proces...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 3, 2016 May 26
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2016-05-26
Subjects--Topical: Archives, LGBTQ+ archives, Gay rights, Gay liberation movement, Gay community, Oral history, LGBTQ+ people
Description: As a sequel to a previous interview, Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses the progress, success and new efforts in collecting local LGBTQ history for d...

Title: Kimarie Whetstone oral history interview, 2021 February 23
Creator: Whetstone, Kimarie Wallace
Date Created: 2021-02-23
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (U.S.)
Description: Kimarie Whetstone shares her experience as an undergraduate and graduate student at UNC Charlotte from 1998 to 2005. [All times are approximate] Kimarie shares her reasons for attending UNC Charlotte as an out-of-state student [1:33], her first ye...

Title: Mark Reynolds oral history interview, 2020 December 10
Creator: Reynolds, Mark David
Date Created: 2010-12-10
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Academic libraries--Security measures, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Public safety, Communication in crisis management
Description: Mark Reynolds, Facilities Manager for the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte, discusses his experiences on April 30 2019, his responsibilities as facilities manager, and the response of the University community following the campus shooting...

Title: Martin Zimmerman oral history interview, 2013 January 3
Creator: Zimmerman, Martin, 1943-
Date Created: 2013-01-03
Subjects--Topical: Urban universities and colleges, Campus planning, Landscape architects, College buildings, Building
Description: Martin Zimmerman, former Director of Facilities Planning at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1992-2001, talks about the master planning process that culminated with the Campus Master Plan in 1995. Mr. Zimmerman discusses Chancell...

Title: Michael Blondo oral history interview , 2021 May 20
Creator: Blondo, Michael
Date Created: 2021-05-20
Subjects--Topical: September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001), Police, First responders, Compassion, Hazardous wastes, Gratitude
Description: WARNING This interview is an eyewitness account of 9/11, the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and may be emotionally disturbing for some people. Michael Blondo, Security Officer for Atkins Library at UNC C...

Title: Randy Dang oral history interview 2022 April 29
Creator: Dang, Randy
Date Created: 2022-04-29
Subjects--Topical: Hip-hop (music), Break dancing, Olympics
Description: In this interview, Randy discusses his introduction to breaking (breakdancing), his past career as a marine and the relationship between hip hop and breakdancing/breaking. He reflects on why he decided to begin breakdancing in high school. He also...

Title: Shateah Marshall oral history interview, 2015 April 10
Creator: Marshall, Shateah
Date Created: 2015-04-10
Subjects--Topical: Community development, Urban, Demographic transition, African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: Shateah Marshall, a twenty-four year old resident of Washington Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses her perspective on the neighborhood as a younger resident. She relates that her family has lived in the neighborhood for four generatio...

Title: Sue Henry oral history interview 2, 2016 August 19
Creator: Henry, Sue L.
Date Created: 2016-08-16
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Gay activists, Gay liberation movement, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Women's bookstores, Women in community organization
Description: In this second interview Sue Henry, the owner of the Rising Moon Books & Beyond bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1991 to 1997, and the first out lesbian to run for Mayor of Charlotte in 1995, discusses the process of opening and operati...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 5, 2015 September 30
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2015-09-30
Subjects--Topical: African American history, Nonprofit organizations
Description: Thereasea D. Clark Elder discusses the founding of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Black Heritage Committee in 1992 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics discussed include her motivation for creating the organization, founding members, the assistance of ...