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Betty Morgan oral history interview, 2006 March 26
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Creator
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Morgan, Betty, 1932-
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Date Created
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2006-03-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Rural families, Education, Rural, Education, Elementary, College students, Rural electrification
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Betty Morgan recounts her life growing up in rural Rowan County, North Carolina. One of nine children, Mrs. Morgan discusses growing up on her family's small farm and how they grew the majority of their own food, as well as cotton. The farm lacked...
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Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
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Creator
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Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
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Date Created
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1996-10-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
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Rutherford County native Elizabeth Biggerstaff describes her life and how she balances work and family. She describes her early life growing up in the country outside of Cliffside, North Carolina, with two older brothers and attending local school...
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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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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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Faith McConnell oral history interview, 1979 May 25
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Creator
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McConnell, Faith, 1902-
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Date Created
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1979-05-25
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Subjects--Topical
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School children, Farm life, Families, Teachers, Rural schools, Education, Rural
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Description
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Faith McConnell shares her memories of growing up on a farm in York County, South Carolina during the early twentieth century. She describes details of her home life, including her family's use of an ironing pot and an ash hopper to make lye soap ...
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Irene Elizabeth Hunt oral history interview, 2004 February 13
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Creator
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Hunt, Irene Elizabeth Stephens, 1910-2008
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Date Created
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2004-02-13
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Subjects--Topical
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African American elementary schools, Education, Rural, Teachers, Students, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation
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Irene Elizabeth Hunt describes her early life growing up in Gaffney, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and the great importance of education to her family. Topics include helping to educate her siblings; memories of one of her favo...
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James Gaither oral history interview, 2004 February 24
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Creator
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Gaither, James Israel, 1936-
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Date Created
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2004-02-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, African American schools, African American families, Farm life, Education, Rural, Race relations
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Description
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James Gaither discusses growing up in the rural Hemphill Heights community in Charlotte, North Carolina and his education at Rockwell Rosenwald School. He recounts living in a farming household that produced their own butter and grew much of their...
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James William Kirk oral history interview 1, 2013 October 7
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Creator
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Kirk, James William, 1925-2014
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Date Created
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2013-10-07
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Subjects--Topical
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Dairy farms, Farm life, Education, Rural, Rural development, Volunteer fire departments, Grand jury
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Description
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In this first of two interviews, James Kirk begins by tracing the history of the Kirk family from their Scottish roots to their settling in the Newell community of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and what would eventually become the University...
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Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
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Creator
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Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
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Date Created
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2003-03-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
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Joseph E. Broughton shares what it was like to grow up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and why he joined World War II. Mr. Broughton was ten years old when the stock market crashed and he got his first job at an ice house to help supp...
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Lillie Dial oral history interview, 2004 April 19
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Creator
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Dial, Lillie, 1925-
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Date Created
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2004-04-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, African American schools, African American school children, Education, Rural, School integration, School children
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Description
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Lillie Dial describes her educational experiences, including attending Pineville Colored High School in Pineville, North Carolina beginning in 1937 and attending Barber-Scotia College. Pineville Colored High School, a Rosenwald School, was new whe...
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Mary Jane White oral history interview, 1979 May 24
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Creator
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White, Mary Jane, 1904-1987
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Date Created
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1979-05-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Farm life, Family farms, Education, Rural
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Mary Jane White discusses living on a family farm in Union County, North Carolina during the early twentieth century, then moving to Charlotte, North Carolina to work in a private household in 1927. Other topics include her education in a one-room...
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Paul G. Rodden oral history interview, 1979 May 22
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Creator
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Rodden, Paul G. (Paul Gilbert), 1909-
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Date Created
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1979-05-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Genealogy, Families--Social life and customs, Country life, Education, Rural, Family farms, Mills and mill-work, Insurance companies
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Paul G. Rodden recounts his years working as an insurance agent for the Pilot Life Insurance Company during the 1940s-1970s and his family history. He describes his interest in genealogy; the Rodden family in Davie, Rowan, and Mecklenburg Counties...
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Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
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Creator
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Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
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Date Created
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2006-03-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
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Textiles industry manager Waitsell Ensley discusses his life and his family. He describes his unexpected birth and his childhood growing up in small mill towns in Gaston County, North Carolina. In particular, Mr. Ensley talks about rationing durin...
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William T. Alexander oral history interview 2, 1992 April 25
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Creator
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Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
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Date Created
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1992-04-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural schools, Public schools, Education, Education, Rural, Rich people, School children--Transportation, Student activities, Corporal punishment of children, Universities and colleges, College students, Amusements
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In this second of three interviews, William T. Alexander describes his education and schooling in Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina during the early twentieth century. Mr. Alexander describes attending different school...