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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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…

Brooklyn Time Line

…1969 The fifth and final stage of the Brooklyn urban renewal project began. 1971 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, which ruled that Charlotte must bus students in order to achieve racial integration. 1977 The final phase of the Brooklyn urban renewal project ends.  …

Don Bryant

September 26, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…the only one of that four to get elected, so I tell people that I was thrown in with a bunch of Philistines. That I was representing just myself and that was all on the council. I sometimes took a contrary view to the rest just in order to have…

Frances Leach

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…church in Brooklyn? “ I hated to leave there. After all, that’s where we grew up. We just hated to leave.” 29.58 Question: After the move, what were some of the changes the congregation faced? She mentioned the problems with transportation. One had to have a car in order to…

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