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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    2nd St. between Caldwell & Brevard, Brooklyn neighborhood. Undated. Tom Walters, Staff - The Charlotte Observer
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    • Bibliography for Brooklyn and Urban Renewal
    • External Oral History Sites
  • About this Project
    • Class Pictures
    • Note of Thanks
  • Interviews
    • 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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Walter "Buck" Kennedy

September 28, 2016 by Alex Chapin
section: Interviews

…to leave from Brooklyn, we did a thirty.day continuous service. That’s what the church did. And what we did was.go back to beginning of the church. And we did what we call a play, thirty.days of continuous service. And that’s where we started out like the.church from the beginning and…

Betty Golden Holloway

September 28, 2016 by Alex Chapin
section: Interviews

…out from- you see, Brooklyn had, like they had wards, First Ward, Second Ward, and Third Ward, that was the whole scope of it. And then they had the outer parts, like Blue Heaven. Yeah, that was just an area- there was a park down there, just as you left…

John Thrower

September 28, 2016 by Alex Chapin
section: Interviews

…best outcome for the time, cure for the cancer in downtown Charlotte, and help with integration in Charlotte. 40.0 Negative comments from community about Urban Renewal in Brooklyn Neighborhood. Discussion of public housing in Charlotte, Eminent Domain, housing codes, slum clearance, and Brooklyn as a “mess.” 45.0 Narrator’s consideration of…

Don Bryant

September 26, 2016 by Alex Chapin
section: Interviews

…was unreal the things you could buy with a dollar in those days. I can remember driving after the, after the war really, driving in the service station and givin’ him a dollar and ask for five gallons of gas, you know, twenty cents a gallon. So, inflation has really…

James and Ozener Yancey

September 28, 2016 by Alex Chapin
section: Interviews

…I’m used to seeing, and when service is over, you stand and chat a few minutes…” 17:44 Question: What things about the new Church today are better than what you had in Brooklyn? A list of things in conjunction with the new Church facility follows, including the nursery and daycare…

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