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Title: Allegra Westbrooks oral history interview, 2007 March 12
Creator: Westbrooks, Allegra M. (Allegra Marea), 1921-
Date Created: 2007-03-12
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, African Americans and libraries, Public libraries, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Race relations
Description: Allegra Westbrooks recounts her thirty-six year career as head of library services at the segregated Brevard Street Library, located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and later in the Charlotte-M...

Title: Arthur Stinson oral history interview, 2007 April 23
Creator: Stinson, Arthur L. (Arthur Lee), 1933-2013
Date Created: 2007-04-23
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal, African American business enterprises, City and town life, Amusements
Description: Arthur L. Stinson recounts his experiences growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses schools and businesses in Brooklyn, working as a teenager in the coal yard and wood yard, and ...

Title: Arthur Wallace Sr. oral history interview, 2004 March 18
Creator: Wallace, Arthur, 1916-
Date Created: 2004-03-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, African American business enterprises, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Amusements, Urban renewal
Description: Arthur Wallace Sr. shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He focuses on his experiences attending Friendship Baptist Missionary Church, which he joined in 1933, including church le...

Title: Barbara Davis Crawford oral history interview, 2004 March 27
Creator: Crawford, Barbara Davis, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-03-27
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Dwellings--Fires and fire prevention, African Americans--Education, School sports--Social aspects, African American schools, Teacher-student relationships, African American business enterprises, African American churches, Urban renewal
Description: Barbara Crawford shares her memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes some of the homes that she lived in growing up, and a house fire that destroyed her family's possess...

Title: Bettye Golden Holloway oral history interview, 2007 April 26
Creator: Holloway, Bettye Golden, 1933-
Date Created: 2007-04-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, African American business enterprises, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, City and town life, African Americans and libraries, Libraries, African American families, School sports--Social aspects
Description: Bettye Golden Holloway shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward, during the 1930s through 1950s in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Holloway cites the close-knit community spirit of Brooklyn as its greatest streng...

Title: Calvin L. Brown oral history interview, 2004 April 27
Creator: Brown, Calvin L. (Calvin Lee), 1935-
Date Created: 2007-04-27
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American lawyers, Discrimination in public accommodations, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal, African American churches, African American neighborhoods
Description: Calvin Brown shares his memories of living in Charlotte, North Carolina during a time when segregation was being challenged by civil rights groups. He moved to Charlotte in 1961 after completing law school, and discusses representing clients, part...

Title: Charles Clyburn oral history interview, 2004 April 5
Creator: Clyburn, Charles, 1934-
Date Created: 2004-04-05
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Police-community relations, School sports, Urban renewal, African American neighborhoods, City and town life, Amusements
Description: Native Charlottean Charles Clyburn shares his memories of spending time in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Topics include attending Second Ward High school, the Queen City Classic football rivalry...

Title: Charles Jones oral history interview 2, 2007 April 25
Creator: Jones, Charles, 1937-
Date Created: 2007-04-25
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, City and town life, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal
Description: Charles Jones shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He describes the sense of community pride in Brooklyn's residents and their close-knit relationships, differences between Charl...

Title: Christine R. Bowser oral history interview, 2007 April 13
Creator: Bowser, Christine, 1934-
Date Created: 2007-04-13
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans and libraries, African American churches, Amusements, African American business enterprises, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Christine Bowser discusses her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her role as program director of the segregated Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Brooklyn, classes and programs that...

Title: Cleo A. Yongue oral history interview, 2004 March 29
Creator: Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015
Date Created: 2004-03-29
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, Public health nursing, Health education, African Americans--Health and hygiene, Race relations, African Americans--Housing, Urban renewal
Description: Cleo A. Yongue recounts her thirty-six year career as a nurse for the Mecklenburg County Health Department and her experiences in the Brooklyn community in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her work as an African ...

Title: Colvin Morgan Edwards oral history interview 1, 2007 March 15
Creator: Edwards, Colvin Morgan, 1938-
Date Created: 2007-03-15
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, School sports--Social aspects, Race relations, Urban renewal, Amusements
Description: Colvin Morgan Edwards shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. While Mr. Edwards did not live in Brooklyn, he discusses his time spent there attending school and visiting friends. He...

Title: Connie Patton oral history interview 1, 2005 May 2
Creator: Patton, Connie, 1925-
Date Created: 2005-05-02
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Student activities, Social values, Youth--Employment, Soldiers
Description: Connie Patton shares his memories of his family, school life, and the Brooklyn neighborbood in Charlotte where he grew up during the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Patton describes the Brooklyn of his youth as a close knit African American community with so...

Title: Connie Patton oral history interview 2, 2007 April 02
Creator: Patton, Connie, 1925-
Date Created: 2007-04-02
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American business enterprises, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Housing, Urban renewal
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Connie Patton recounts growing up in the the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, also known as Second Ward. He shares his memories of playing football and baseball with other children, churches, businesses, and joi...

Title: Curtina P. Simmons oral history interview, 2004 April 13
Creator: Simmons, Curtina P. (Curtina Perkins), 1941-
Date Created: 2004-04-13
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American schools, African American churches, African American business enterprises, African Americans--Economic conditions, African Americans--Education, Cities and towns--Growth, Urban renewal
Description: Curtina Simmons shares her memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, during the mid-twentieth century. Ms. Simmons moved to Second Ward as a child in the 1940s. She describes her educa...

Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 1, June 20, 2001
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: Daisy Spears Stroud, a native of Charlotte, recounts her experiences growing up in the First Ward neighborhood and her career in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system before and during desegregation in the 1950s-1970s. She describes her experien...

Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 3, 2007 April 12
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2007-04-12
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African American schools, Urban renewal, African American churches, Scholarships
Description: Native Charlottean Daisy Stroud shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Ms. Stroud was a resident of First Ward, and speaks about Brooklyn being an exciting place to visit that was ...

Title: Doretha Leak oral history interview, 2004 May 3
Creator: Leak, Doretha L., 1933-
Date Created: 2004-05-03
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American neighborhoods, African American business enterprises, African American schools, City and town life
Description: Doretha Leak recalls living during the mid-twentieth century in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. The first part of the interview was not recorded; much of the interview that was captured focuses on...

Title: Dorothy G. Shipman, Walter Kennedy, and Mary S. McGill oral history interview, 2004 March 11
Creator: Shipman, Dorothy G., 1926-
Date Created: 2004-03-11
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal
Description: In this group interview, Dorothy Shipman, Walter "Buck" Kennedy, and Mary S. McGill share their memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, also known as Second Ward, as well as their experiences with Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. ...

Title: Frances H. Leach oral history interview, 2004 April 2
Creator: Leach, Frances H., 1919-2014
Date Created: 2004-04-02
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Religion, African American churches, African American business enterprises, Amusements, Urban renewal
Description: Frances H. Leach shares her memories of Charlotte, North Carolina's African American communities. She talks about the Cherry neighborhood where she grew up during the 1930s and 1940s and the thriving African American Brooklyn community, also known...

Title: Freddie and Christine Sanders oral history interview, 2005 February 1
Creator: Sanders, Freddie, 1931-
Date Created: 2005-02-01
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Teachers, Busing for school integration, Student activities, Students--Social life and customs
Description: Freddie and Christine Sanders reflect on what it was like to be students at the all-black Second Ward High School in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood during segregation in the 1940s and early 1950s. They describe school dances, football game...