Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015

Dial, Tamara

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2004-03-29

1 audio file (53:13) : digital, MP3 + 1 interview log (4 pages : PDF)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Cleo A. Yongue was a 90-year-old woman at the time of the interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Darlington, South Carolina in 1914. She graduated with a Certificate in Public Health and was employed as a visiting field nurse for the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Health Department and a school nurse at Myers Street Elementary and Second Ward High School.

Cleo A. Yongue recounts her thirty-six year career as a nurse for the Mecklenburg County Health Department and her experiences in the Brooklyn community in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her work as an African American nurse in the Mecklenburg County Health Department during segregation, which included performing house calls, school visits, and working in maternity and well baby clinics in Brooklyn. Other topics include transportation around Charlotte, integration in the workplace, and how urban renewal affected Brooklyn and Charlotte's African American community.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV. Compact disc held by Atkins Library reformatted using Exact Audio Copy.

Public health nurses
Nurses

Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015

Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department

African Americans--Segregation
African American neighborhoods
Public health nursing
Health education
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Race relations
African Americans--Housing
Urban renewal

North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Charlotte--Brooklyn
North Carolina--Charlotte--Second Ward
North Carolina--Charlotte--Blue Heaven

Interviews
Oral histories

1930-2010

Student project on Second Ward

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Mecklenburg County Health Department Records, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/247)

OH-YO0405

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2677