African Americans -- Segregation
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Era before Brown vs. Board of Education oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-BB
Abstract
The interviews focus on the educational experiences of members of the African American community of Charlotte during the era of segregation. Many interviewees also discuss how things changed once segregation ended and their children’s school experiences.
Dates:
2004 - 2005
Harold Pulley [1], 2012 May 31
File
Identifier: OH-UA-PU0084
Scope and Contents
In this first of four interviews, Harold Pulley, North Carolina native and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, begins by discussing his family background including his father's acquisition of farmland in return for construction labor, his mother's education and personality, and his maternal grandfather's parentage and role in helping enslaved people escape, fighting in the Civil War, and bootlegging. He recalls how his father's stories about the African-American...
Dates:
2012 May 31
Harold Pulley [2], 2012 June 26
File
Identifier: OH-UA-PU0085
Scope and Contents
In this second of four interviews, Harold Pulley, UNC Charlotte alumnus, recounts his college and military careers, discussing his time at Livingstone College, Gaston Technical Institute, and UNC Charlotte, as well as in the Navy Reserve and the Air Force. He comments on feelings in the local African-American community about UNC Charlotte, particularly in relation to Johnson C. Smith University, and describes his student experience at UNC Charlotte, including coursework, social connections,...
Dates:
2012 June 26
James G. Babb, 2013 July 18
File
Identifier: OH-UA-BA0074
Scope and Contents
In this interview, James G. "Jim" Babb, long-time Charlotte resident and student at Charlotte College in the 1950s, recalls his early years in New York City, Boston, and Charlotte, North Carolina; his school days at Dilworth Elementary School, O'Donohue School, and Central High School in Charlotte; his employment at The Charlotte News, The Charlotte Observer, and WBTV; his service in the United States Army during the Korean War; and his education at Newberry College, the University of North...
Dates:
2013 July 18
James G. Babb, Jr. oral history interview, 2013 July 18
Digital Record
Identifier: OH-UA-BA0074
Dates:
2013-07-18
John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2011 September 6
Digital Record
Identifier: OH-MI0567
Dates:
2011-09-06
John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 2, 2011 September 14
Digital Record
Identifier: OH-MI0568
Dates:
2011-09-14
John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 3, 2011 September 26
Digital Record
Identifier: OH-MI0569
Dates:
2011-09-26
Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick on the Legacy of Slavery in Mecklenburg County
Collection
Identifier: OH-KP
Abstract
Native Charlotteans Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick discuss their ongoing journey together after discovering that their family histories were interwoven through the institution of slavery. Although they were both classmates at Myers Park High School in the mid-1960s, it was not until almost fifty years later that a newspaper article recounting the injustice Jimmie Lee had faced as a thwarted contender for the Shrine Bowl brought the two classmates into contact with each other. As...
Dates:
2017-10 - 2017-11
Merwin Edsel Foard oral history interview 2, 2014 February 28
Digital Record
Identifier: UA-FO0102
Dates:
2014-02-28
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