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Title: City Council - Elmwood Cemetery
Date Created: 1968-05-01, 1969-01-08
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Public officers, Discrimination in public accommodations, Segregation--Public opinion, Cemeteries
Description: Concerns the Charlotte City Council's vote to remove a fence between the Pinewood (Black) and Elmwood (white) cemeteries.

Title: Fred D. (Frederick Douglas) Alexander Papers
Creator: Alexander, Frederick Douglas, 1910-1980
Date Created: 1960, 1969
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, City council members, African American politicians
Description: This collection primarily consists of material created and received by Fred Alexander as a member of the Charlotte City Council (1965-74) and as a state senator (1975-80). Digitized content in Goldmine represents a small portion of the collection....

Title: John Thrower oral history interview, 2004 September 4
Creator: Thrower, John Hampton, 1928-2013
Date Created: 2004-09-04
Subjects--Topical: Urban redevelopment, African American neighborhoods, African American families, City planning, City council members, Urban renewal, African Americans--Segregation, Eminent domain
Description: John Thrower discusses his experiences serving two terms on the Charlotte City Council in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1960s and 1970s. He describes poor living conditions in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina (also kno...

Title: Milton Short oral history interview, 2004 March 22
Creator: Short, Milton, 1919-2011
Date Created: 2004-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, Eminent domain, Political participation, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Housing, African American neighborhoods, African American business enterprises
Description: H. Milton Short, Jr. recounts his six terms serving on Charlotte city council (1965-1979) in Charlotte, North Carolina and his involvement with the urban renewal program. He characterizes Charlotte's redevelopment program as very popular among Cha...

Title: Sorry, I can't hear you for the noise!
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1968-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, African Americans--Segregation, Cemeteries, Motorsports--Environmental aspects, Day care centers--Law and legislation, Cities and towns--Politics and government
Description: Topics include: Charlotte City Council; Charlotte and Mecklenburg County politics and government

Title: Stanford Brookshire oral history interview 1, 1973 February 16
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Date Created: 1973-02-16
Subjects--Topical: Mayors, Mayors--Election, Country life, Depressions, Family farms, Small business, Boards of trade, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Political campaigns, Sexism in political culture, Political candidates, Elections, Nonpartisan, Urban renewal, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Discrimination in public accommodations, Racism, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Civil rights, Bombings
Description: Stanford "Stan" Brookshire, the former four-term mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1961-1969, talks about his early life and his time as mayor. He describes his hometown, Troutman, North Carolina, and growing up on a farm that employed tenan...