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Mrs. Barbara C. Steele is the daughter of Alice Hart and Buster Crawford. She was born and raised in Charlotte and has lived in only two homes her entire life, her present home and her home in Brooklyn. She is 72 years of age and a retired schoolteacher of thirty…

Mr. H. Milton Short, Jr. served six terms on Charlotte’s City Council (1965-1979), and was the appointed chairman of a committee to research and lobby the state legislature to change a provision that required the city council to sell property in the Brooklyn neighborhood at public auction. Mr. Short expressed…

Mrs. Curtina Simmons was born in 1941, and soon after her family re-located to Brooklyn. As a former Brooklyn resident, Mrs. Simmons has close ties with the community, especially due to her educational upbringing at Myers Street Elementary School and Second Ward High School. Teachers at these schools helped to…

Ms. Dorothy Shipman grew up in the Brooklyn community and was originally a member of The House of Prayer Church. She joined Friendship Baptist Church in 1946 after she was married. Sister Shipman was very soft-spoken during the group interview but made a definite statement from the start. She recounted,…

Mr. Vernon Sawyer was brought in to help lead the urban renewal program in Charlotte’s inner city. Part I https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/VSawyerpt1.mp3 Part II https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/VSawyerpt2.mp3 Tape Log Tape Log: Oral History Interview with Vernon Sawyer Transcript Vernon Sawyer…