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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Second Ward Alumni

November 17, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…House on Beatties Ford Road as part of the focus on the former Brooklyn Neighborhood of Charlotte. I have with me today Ms. Vermelle Ely, Mr. Wright Hunter, and Mr. Price Davis. Would each of you begin by briefly introducing yourselves. VE: Good morning. My name is Vermelle Diamond Ely.…

Reginald Hawkins

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…done very well economically, politically, and otherwise. Education, who lived in Brooklyn. It was an area that was basically land owned. Most of the land was not owned by black folk, it was owned by, by whites; the Dwelly family and several other leading real estate families owned most of…

Ida James

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…were moved to almost totally new housingdevelopment. LY: What years were you working in that capacity? JY: Sixty [pause] seven, sixty nine. LY: And you also worked with youths in the area that got in a little bit of a tangle [pause] I guess? JY: Ah, yes. The only thing…

James and Ozener Yancey

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…probably bought the church for about onehundred eighty five thousand dollars price. At the time in Brooklyn I do not think that would put a dent intobuying that property back. LY: OK. JY: At public, basically. LY: OK. LY: From your, how, how were people notified that their land was…

Calvin Brown

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…in any kind of organized fashion. TP: OK, so around 1961 to 1965, what exactly was the NAACP doing? I understand that they were involved in some civil rights cases, but what exactly, as far as urban renewal was concerned? Basically, are you saying that segregation outweighed- the focus on…

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