Brooklyn Oral History
Brooklyn Oral History
  • Savoy Theatre
    Savoy Theatre on S. McDowell St. Undated. Hank Daniel, Staff - The Charlotte Observer
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    2nd St. between Caldwell & Brevard, Brooklyn neighborhood. Undated. Tom Walters, Staff - The Charlotte Observer
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    • Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
    • Second Ward Alumni
    • Olaf Abraham
    • Kelly Alexander
    • Margaret Alexander
    • James Black
    • Christine Bowser
    • Calvin Brown
    • Don Bryant
    • Charles Clyburn
    • Barbara Davis Crawford
    • Calvin C. Davis
    • Naomi A. Davis
    • Price Davis
    • Morgan Edwards
    • Thereasea Elder
    • Vermelle Diamond Ely
    • Rosena Gaines
    • Delores Giles
    • William Harris
    • Reginald Hawkins
    • Vernon Herron
    • Betty Golden Holloway
    • Johnny Holloway
    • Wright Hunter
    • Ida James
    • Charles Jones
    • Walter “Buck” Kennedy
    • Frances Leach
    • Doretha Leak
    • Lem Long
    • John McCarroll
    • Mary S. McGill
    • John Murphy
    • Mae Orr
    • Connie Patton
    • Richard Petersheim
    • Mary Poe
    • James Polk
    • James Ross II
    • Vernon Sawyer
    • Dorothy Shipman
    • H. Milton Short, Jr.
    • Curtina Simmons
    • Barbara C. Steele
    • James “Slack” Steele
    • Arthur Stinson
    • Daisy Stroud
    • John Thrower
    • Bill Veeder
    • Arthur Wallace, Sr.
    • George A. Wallace, Sr.
    • Alegra Westbrooks
    • Arthur Williams
    • Diane Wyche
    • James Yancey
    • Ozener Yancey
    • James and Ozener Yancey
    • Cleo A. Yongue
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Daisy Stroud

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…encouraging and encouraging and encouraging, and unless they saw evidence that they were not doing, they accepted the idea that all people, all students can’t do the same. And, but when they saw something in a student that they thought needed developing, then they focused on that, on that student,…

James Black

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…very large garden. That is enough to feed all those people for sure, for sure. JB: Yeah. JP: Well, what about your mom? What kind of work did your mom do? JB: She was a seamstress. Then she was also, she was a cook. She used to do special functions…

Reginald Hawkins

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…women, and black children. GC: Can you talk a little bit aboutRH: See the black man has always been endangered species, even today. You are an endangered species man. They might catch you, put you in jail, and charge you with anything. It still exists. It was that, it was…

Connie Patton

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…our Principal had been a captain in World War Two…World War One…Captain I think it was maybe a lieutenant first. I think it was a Captain. And he started a ROTC and every boy sixteen, seventeen, we had to take ROTC. And you got drafted, when you were eighteen years…

Arthur Stinson

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…involved in the nightlife of Brooklyn; Green Willow Garden; Brevard Street Library; Lincoln Theater; Second Ward High school 30:00 Queen City Classic 33:00 Urban Renewal of Brooklyn; NAACP involvement; the Alexander family; Julius Chambers 36:00 Additional services provided by the funeral homes to the black community; Good Samaritan Hospital 39:00…

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