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
  • News
  • 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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Don Bryant

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…important to the development of downtown. As a result, with the federal money to buy land, we got involved. I was not against urban renewal, I was just against the method that they used to get it, and that was to buy people out regardless, you know, right of Eminent…

Brooklyn Time Line

…a vote of 4-3 after councilman Gibson Smith switched his vote. 1961-1969 Stanford Brookshire served as mayor of Charlotte with a strong agenda for urban renewal. June 1961 The first phase of the Brooklyn project was approved for 36 acres bounded by East Third, South Brevard, South Davidson, and Independence…

William Harris

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…and to their parents. Dr. Harris is critical of the urban renewal project that destroyed his neighborhood. Because his boyhood homes, church, and schools are gone, he considers himself “the kid that never was”. He castigated Charlotte’s political leaders that approved of the renewal project, sarcastically referring to them as…

James Black

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…the House of Prayer. 15 Musical programs at the House of Prayer. Services at the House of Prayer. Programs for children at the House of Prayer. Black’s family- how did he define family in Brooklyn? 20 Childhood chores in Brooklyn. Community garden. Mr. Black’s mother: career as a seamstress and…

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…

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