Brooklyn Oral History
Brooklyn Oral History
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    • 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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Dolores Giles & Mary Poe

November 17, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…blighted, it was crime-ridden… MP: Well, it was at that time. DG: It was at that time, but I’ll tell you what. If anything happened in that area, you would know it, that’s for sure. If anyone, a stranger would come in that area you knew it. Because you wasn’t,…

Reginald Hawkins

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…force; urban redevelopment, government forces; de-, segregation of schools by government. See, you don’t realize, you fought Bop Bep-, Poppa Doc down there in Haiti where it was worse, I fought him too. I was, when he was the dictator down in Haiti, I was working with Haiti. But the…

Ida James

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…they would not overlook their many blessings. Ms. James participated in a group interview with other members of Friendship Baptist Church. Part I https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/Yancey.mp3 Part II https://sites.charlotte.edu/brooklyn-oral-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/1007/2016/09/Yancy_James.mp3 Tape Log Tape Log: Oral History Interview with Ida James Oral History Interview with Friendship Missionary Baptist Church Ms. Ida James Mr. James…

James and Ozener Yancey

September 28, 2016 by Karen Flint
section: Interviews

…he is glad that someone is interested in the Brooklyn history before it is too late as the former residents are getting up in years.n([a-z A-Z ” “]) “ Transcript James and Ozener Yancey Yancey Transcripts Shoney’s Restaurant March 23, 2004 LY: Leo Yakutis (Interviewer) JY: James Yancey (Interviewee) OY:…

History of Brooklyn

…sister city in New York, “Brooklyn” conveyed the sense of a city within a city, one with an equally vibrant nightlife and community-spirit. The decline of this community began in the late 1930s when federal guidelines red-lined African American communities and the all-white Charlotte Planning Commission re-zoned Brooklyn in 1947…

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