Brooklyn Oral History
Brooklyn Oral History
  • Savoy Theatre
    Savoy Theatre on S. McDowell St. Undated. Hank Daniel, Staff - The Charlotte Observer
  • Caldwell+Brevard-crop
    2nd St. between Caldwell & Brevard, Brooklyn neighborhood. Undated. Tom Walters, Staff - The Charlotte Observer
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  • History of Brooklyn
    • Brooklyn Time Line
    • 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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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…

Bibliography for Brooklyn and Urban Renewal

…and the African American Community: In the Shadows (1997) U.S. Department of Agriculture. What Works!: In the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (1997?-) *Watters, Pat “Special Report by the Southern Regional Council on Charlotte” (1964) Williams Jr., Norman; Taylor, John M. American Land Planning Law: Land Use and the Police…

Charles Clyburn

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…to be a place on Oakmont Avenue called [pause] Henry’s Ice Cream Parlor. Alittle small place, and when we came on this side of town, the other side of town, there always wasthe Queen City Pharmacy. Queen City Pharmacy, that’s where we would all hang out, gettogether, gather there, have…

Walter "Buck" Kennedy

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…interview that Friendship Baptist Church had the opportunity to buy land or at least,buy land in Brooklyn and possibly build another building. Do you remember anything about that or why theydecided, maybe, why they decided not to buy land in Brooklyn? WK: I can’t remember nothing like that because they…

Barbara C. Steele

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…loved both of them. Especially Second Ward, the teachers, they were just like your parents.They would always give you something, whatever you needed a pair of shoes or a dress orwhatever they would buy it for you. When you’d go to school some kid’s parents didn’t get achance to comb…

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