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Title: Alma Blake oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Blake, Alma, approximately 1918-
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, African American basketball players, School sports, Sex role, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching
Description: Former player and coach Alma Blake discusses her life-long involvement with basketball. Throughout the interview, Ms. Blake discusses gender and the game as she reflects upon her own unwillingness to participate in high school basketball under "gi...

Title: Bill E. Bost oral history interview, 1993 March 15
Creator: Bost, Bill E. (Billy Earl), 1932-1995
Date Created: 1993-03-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Basketball coaches, Teamwork (Sports), Basketball--Coaching, Basketball for women--Coaching, Basketball teams, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Basketball--Social aspects, Basketball teams, Basketball stories
Description: Former player, coach, and educator Bill Bost discusses his personal experiences around the game of basketball. Living and coaching in Catawba County, North Carolina, Mr. Bost explains the pivotal role basketball serves in a small town, where playe...

Title: Elizabeth Callaway oral history interview, 1993 March 11
Creator: Callaway, Elizabeth McCall, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1993-03-11
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Country life
Description: Elizabeth McCall Callaway talks about learning to play basketball and her memories of playing on school teams in Catawba County and Charlotte, North Carolina. She played basketball starting in the seventh grade in Catawba County and played for fou...

Title: Erin Mackie and Renée Mackie oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Mackie, Erin
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Women basketball players, Basketball teams, Sports--Social aspects, School sports
Description: High school student Erin Mackie and her mother Renée Mackie talk about Erin's experiences as a female basketball player at Bandys High School in Catawba, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Erin's early memories of falling in love with the sp...

Title: Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball panel discussion, 1996 March 3
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1996-03-30
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers, Softball
Description: Historian Pamela Grundy leads a panel discussion at the Levine Museum of the New South with four former members of the Hanes Hosiery women's basketball team, Mildred "Milly" Baugess, Evelyn "Eckie" Jordan, Eunies Futch, and Hazel Phillips, who pla...

Title: Kathlee Hicks oral history interview, 1993 October 24
Creator: Hicks, Kathlee Cox, 1917-2002
Date Created: 1993-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Basketball uniforms, High school student activities, Swimming--Training
Description: Native Charlottean Kathlee Hicks discusses her time as a basketball player and drum majorette for Central High School in the 1930s. She describes the uniforms she wore in both activities and discusses how gender conventions of the day shaped their...

Title: Mary Dalton and Mildred McMillan oral history interview, 1992 December 7
Creator: Dalton, Mary Keesler, 1904-1999
Date Created: 1992-12-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Young Men's Christian associations, Women basketball players, Basketball teams, Basketball uniforms, Sports--Social aspects, Amusements, High school students--Conduct of life, City and town life, Street-railroads, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Mary Dalton and Mildred McMillan discuss their experiences playing basketball and enjoying other recreational activities in Charlotte, North Carolina during the early 20th century. They describe learning how to play basketball at a local park, pla...

Title: Mildred Bauguess oral history interview, 1993 May 14
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1993-05-14
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers
Description: Mildred Little Bauguess discusses her basketball career at Claremont High School in Claremont, North Carolina and playing semi-professionally on the Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball team during the 1940s and 1950s. She recalls the accolades, tourn...

Title: Vada Hewins and John Shayle Edwards oral history interview, 1993 March 15
Creator: Hewins, Vada
Date Created: 1993-03-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, School sports, Basketball--Tournaments, Farm life, Basketball--Rules, Basketball uniforms, Basketball--Coaching
Description: Vada Hewins and her son, John Shayle Edwards, describe their early experiences playing basketball in Catawba County, North Carolina. Vada Hewins goes into detail about how the rules and regulations pertaining to women's basketball had evolved from...