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Title: Awards and gifts image 2
Date Created: 1960
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College campuses, College administrators, Universities and colleges--Administration
Description: Caption on back: "Charlotte Observer and News represented by Brodie Guffeth giving scholarship checks to Charlotte College and Carver College which are represented by their respective heads Bonnie Cone and James Alexander."

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1998-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...

Title: Cindy Thomson oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Thomson, Cindy, 1946-
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Sexism, Sexism in mass media, Sex discrimination in employment, Feminism--Political aspects, Women--Social conditions, Women--Political activity
Description: Cindy Thomson recounts her experiences with the National Organization for Women (NOW) and as a feminist activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. She explains how she became involved with NOW, discusses her role in the development of the Charlotte ch...

Title: Emery Wister oral history interview 1, 1979 May 23
Creator: Wister, Emery, 1914-2007
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Journalism, Commercial, Journalism and motion pictures, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Reporters and reporting, Urban renewal--Social aspects
Description: Emery Wister, a journalist and editor at the Charlotte News, recounts his life and experiences in Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes growing up on the edge of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte and discusses local race relations and the r...

Title: Eugene Payne oral history interview 2, 2005 March 24
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 2005-03-24
Subjects--Topical: Art, Cartooning, Caricatures and cartoons, Editorial cartoons, Editorial cartoonists, Newspapers, Pulitzer Prizes
Description: In this second interview, Eugene Payne discusses his forty-year career as an editorial cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer, his artwork, and winning his 1968 Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Payne discusses the role his mother played in supporting his early ...

Title: Harvey Boyd oral history interview, 2004 April 17
Creator: Boyd, Harvey, 1944-
Date Created: 2004-04-17
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Commercial art, Social integration, Advertising, Newspapers, African Americans--Employment, Mentoring in education
Description: Harvey Boyd reflects on his extraordinary life achievements, despite his limited opportunities as an African American man growing up in the segregated South. He begins by describing his childhood home, where he also lived at the time of interview,...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 1, 2003 June 5
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2003-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Editorials, Sports journalism, Newspapers, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Segregation, Race discrimination, Race relations
Description: Jack Claiborne, former editor at the Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), reflects on his life, work, and the city of Charlotte. Mr. Claiborne talks about his ...

Title: Jeep Hunter portrait
Creator: Sumner, William Hoke, Jr., 1912-1993
Date Created: 1958-05
Subjects--Topical: Photojournalists, Men
Description: Charlotte News and Charlotte Observer photographer Jeep Hunter.

Title: John Love oral history interview, 2004 April 9
Creator: Love, John Willie, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, Segregation in education, Racism, Race relations, Discrimination in employment, African American postal service employees, African American golfers
Description: South Carolina native John W. Love discusses his life in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his personal experiences with segregation, the civil rights movement, integration, and race relations in the city. Originally from Chester, South Carolina, Mr....

Title: LeGette Blythe oral history interview 2, circa 1976
Creator: Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993
Date Created: 1976
Subjects--Topical: Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry, Labor unions and communism, Police brutality, Textile workers--Labor unions, Mills and mill-work
Description: Author and former Charlotte Observer reporter LeGette Blythe shares his eyewitness account of the 1929 Loray Mill strike approximately forty-five years after the event took place. Mr. Blythe describes how the chaotic strike atmosphere escalated in...

Title: Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 1, 2017 December 28
Creator: Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-12-28
Subjects--Topical: LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Television--Production and direction, Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: In this interview, Lynnsy Logue discusses her experience living in New York City and Charlotte North Carolina as a lesbian woman, her fourteen year career with the Charlotte Observer, and her involvement in various social and political organizatio...

Title: Samuel C. Poteat oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Poteat, Samuel C. (Samuel Charles), 1896-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, City and town life, Depressions, Country life, Family farms
Description: Samuel Poteat describes his experiences overseas serving in the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion while plagued with the flu and measles during World War I. Other topics discussed include cotton farming in Huntersville, North Carolina; businesses and en...

Title: Senator White article
Creator: Estridge, Tommy
Date Created: 1960, 1965
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College campuses, Journalism
Description: Photograph of a newspaper editorial on eastern North Carolina with additional caption added and filed under 'Senator White.' Caption on back: "Photo by Tommy Estridge."