Student Oral History Project concerning the Charlotte African American community
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 50 interviewse conducted by UNC Charlotte students for a class in African Studies taught by Dr. Robert Smith between 2004 and 2006. The project was titled "Talk, Listen, and Learn: The Charlotte African American Oral History Project," and the purpose of the project was to chronicle and collect the histories of a wide cross-section of African Americans in the Charlotte area from the middle decades of the twentieth century until the mid-2000s.
Dates
- Creation: 2004 - 2006
Biographical Note
Dr. Robert Smith was a professor in the Africana Studies Department at UNC Charlotte from 2002-2009. He is an Associate Professor of History, Vice Chancellor, and Director of the Cultures & Communities program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University, researching the intersection of race and law. In his book, Race, Labor and Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity, Rob chronicles the efforts of grassroots activists who used Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) to garner better jobs and long overdue promotions.
Extent
50 Interviews
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Student Oral History Project concerning the Charlotte African American community
- Subtitle
- Talk, Listen, and Learn: The Charlotte African American Oral History Project
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- November 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Oral Histories, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte Repository
Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte NC 28223 United States
spec-coll@uncc.edu
