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Title
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Esther Young oral history interview, 2003 March 1
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Creator
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Young, Esther B., 1923-2004
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Date Created
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2003-03-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Family farms, Rural families, Depressions, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Rural, Families--Social life and customs, Politics and government, Sharecropping, Amusements
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Description
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Esther Young recalls her childhood in rural Cabarrus County, North Carolina during the early 1930s and summarizes her family's experiences during the Great Depression. Ms. Young explains that her family farmed throughout the Great Depression and w...
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William T. Alexander oral history interview 1, 1992 Spring
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Creator
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Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
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Date Created
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1992
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Subjects--Topical
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Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Carriages and carts, Christian life, Plantations, Family farms, Cotton, Freedmen, Farm life, Education, Livestock, African Americans--Segregation, Sharecropping
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Description
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In this first of three interviews, William T. Alexander describes growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina in the Mallard Creek Church region during the early twentieth century and how the area changed over time. Mr. Alexander's ancestors were some...
