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    • Curtina Simmons
    • Barbara C. Steele
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    • Arthur Stinson
    • Daisy Stroud
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    • George A. Wallace, Sr.
    • Alegra Westbrooks
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    • Diane Wyche
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Dolores Giles & Mary Poe

November 17, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…me it reminds me of, like, if you were going to New York, to the bad area of New York. Something like that. JP: So, like, the housing was kind of dilapidated? MP: Yeah, brown, brown restaurants, clubs, but that’s what it was like. Standing on the outside. Stuff like…

James Black

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…they had several different churches in the community. They had the House of Prayer, which is one of the most important parts of the community because it came from sawdust to where it is today, from a tent, really, to where it is today. And I was blessed to be…

Vernon Herron

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…of the New South Voices project for the Brooklyn Neighborhood Oral History project taking place on March 13, 2007. The interviewer is Tosha McLean Pearson TP: Dr. Herron? VH: Yes TP: I’m glad to be with you today VH I’m glad to be with you TP: The first question I…

Lem Long

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…anything? LL: Well sometimes, if there was killing, a cop would be there, sometimes he’d be there. Person bleeding. Sometimes they’d have the person there. I remember going on an ambulance call once down on 3rd…I believe that’s 3rd Street near the Good Samaritan Hospital where it used to be….

Reginald Hawkins

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…still got a lot of them now, you got a lot of there in New York with the Republican party, who are sell-outs. So don’t, don’t think that’s anything new. We’ve always had them. [Pause] In Haiti, they’d kill them, you know, and you can-, if these blacks in Charlotte…

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