Brooklyn Oral History
Brooklyn Oral History
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    Savoy Theatre on S. McDowell St. Undated. Hank Daniel, 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

…bag full so we didn’t have to buy any. PD: Well, some of my fondest memories of Brooklyn, prove the fact that I grew up in Cherry. Cherry was sparsely, the houses were not close together, and there weren’t a lot of people like Brooklyn. When I came to Brooklyn,…

Arthur Stinson

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…at that corner. We had Dr. McCrorey had owned, ran Queen City Pharmacy for all of our drug needs, if we need to have a prescription filled; predominately black. We had McKissick’s Shoe Shop, the owner of that. We had El Chico, one and two. We had one on Second…

Curtina Simmons

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…your mind of prominent churches? CS: OK. I can give you a litany of churches. We can start on one end, they, and all of them were very, very, active. So I don’t want to- I, I want to name some, and I don’t want to leave- but I will…

Vernon Herron

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…things I think, his appeal. I think his appeal, part of it was economics because he would have Grace’s grocery store, he would have grocery stores that you could buy food for little or no money or you could buy things, maybe he would have clothing stores. But it was…

John Thrower

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…and the land lay vacate for several years because [laughter] of the bugs and stuff. No, they weren’t asked whether they wanted to buy it or not, and I do not remember one that said he wanted, or she said they wanted to buy it. For the reasons I just…

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