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    • Alegra Westbrooks
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    • Cleo A. Yongue
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Daisy Stroud

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…in a class of 137 students. Mrs. Stroud has many fond memories of attending Second Ward High School, of the teachers, and of singing in the school’s choral group. She speaks about Brooklyn being an exciting place that was reminiscent of New York’s Harlem. After high school, Mrs. Stroud attended…

Diane Wyche

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…that time was, was very small. So, I’m sure they talked about medical cases, probably had some of the same patients, maybe talked about some of the new, new, a lot of the new things that were happening in medicine and with medication. TP: OK. Was there a tendency for…

Arthur Williams

August 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…and, and the band took the stage. It was called the old Green Willow Garden. There was so many people down through there it use to be like Times Square in New York. And also, on Friday evening when Kemps ( ), this was in the forties when the Second…

Arthur Stinson

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…of the horns, the drums, the whole thing; and they marched all over the North East United States, from New York to Florida, marching. One of the biggest things in Charlotte here they had what you call a week of convocation, where you had baptismal services, where they baptized and…

Curtina Simmons

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…call juke joints today. Sometimes live music, sometimes not. Piccolos were popular during that time. And we had tea rooms where people just like you have cigar parlors, people would go in and, you know, have a cup of tea and a sandwich, and that type of thing. Called sandwich…

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