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    • Thereasea Elder
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    • Betty Golden Holloway
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    • Wright Hunter
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    • Mary S. McGill
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    • 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
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    • James and Ozener Yancey
    • Cleo A. Yongue
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Second Ward Alumni

November 17, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

Second Ward High School was opened in 1923 in Charlotte, North Carolina as the city’s first high school for African American children. The following people are included in this interview: Price F. Davis Calvin C. Davis Naomi A. Davis Vermelle Diamond Ely Wright Hunter Part I https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/SecondWardpt1.mp3 Part II https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/SecondWardpt2.mp3…

Arthur Stinson

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…side, south side, north side, all these things happened. But the big major change came after World War II. Because that’s when they started building Double Oaks and South Side, Brookhill and all these things. Therefore, creating room, houses for the people that were moving from old Brooklyn. SF: You…

Curtina Simmons

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…it was a thriving interdependent black community. https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/Curtina_Simmons.mp3 Tape Log Tape Log: Oral History Interview with Curtina Simmons Interviewed by Solomon Franklin April 13, 2007 Time Description of Interview Contents 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Mrs. Simmons tells of her former residences in Brooklyn and explains the geographical location of Brooklyn’s parameters…

Vernon Herron

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…he attended college at Shaw University and Johnson C. Smith University, and then moved to various other locations in the United States before coming back to Charlotte, North Carolina to retire. https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/Hernon_Vernon.mp3 Tape Log Tape Log: Oral History Interview with Vernon Herron Interviewed by Tosha Mclean Pearson 03/13/2007 Time Description…

Christine Bowser

June 07, 2017 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…how, how did you guys interact with the other churches in the area? CB: Oh, well, we had, when they had what they call their- what did they call it? Their- loss for words- their, when they would have different ministers to come into the church- revivals, what I was…

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