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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    • 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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Johnny Holloway

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

Johnny Holloway, born in Durham, NC, relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina after finishing both his time in the US Army and graduate school. He was instrumental in bringing both Jazz appreciation and marching band orchestration to West Charlotte High School. A thorough participant in the 1950’s Charlotte jazz scene, he…

Barbara C. Steele

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…itwas another home for us. They were always buying us something, bringing us candy. You knowthey want you to learn so whatever they could do to improve your learning or to help you withanything they would do anything they could to help you. And I will never forget going to…

Alegra Westbrooks

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…(Cornelius Branch) 1:53 Feeling of being banned from White Libraries 2:10 Retires at age 62 2:25 Integration allowed her to work for the Main Library 3:16 Bringing books to neighborhoods without libraries 4:07 African-American Libraries borrowed books from the Main Library 5:09 Clubs and Churches used as a tool to…

History of Brooklyn

…school, probably six night clubs, probably twenty restaurants, an Elks Club, a YMCA, a YWCA, two commercial laundries, a commercial icehouse, twenty-three churches big enough for people to remember and probably another ten little storefront churches, a pharmacy, doctors, dentists, two newspapers, now this was one neighborhood.” Named after its…

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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