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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    • 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

…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…

Charles Clyburn

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…and you come downthe street and meet somebody coming out and, you know, every time you come all the way downthe Brooklyn, someone would join in and by the time you get to school- – RJ: So, [laughs] – – CC: So yeah there would be crowd – and that’s…

James Black

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…in Brooklyn. So, you know, it was, it was very important. And see, they also had at Second Ward Carver College, coming out as a vocational school where you can learn trades. So, that was, that was our community. JP: And so, in some ways the community was centered around…

Walter "Buck" Kennedy

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…were coming from, I mean, where, where were these people coming from? WK: From this. BA: That were coming in. WK: Yeah. Most of them was coming from this side of town. BA: OK. WK: Because they had the most population of the church was from this area and then,…

Reginald Hawkins

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…Social, like, I’ve read some about socialisticRH: We had all the black-, we were completely, we were a complete community. You had fraternities, lodges, Masonic lodges, fraternity, church groups, and-. We were a complete compact society, self-sustaining. GC: Self-sustaining, andRH: That’s right, we had it under segregation. We had togetherness…

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