Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: Communist Workers Party cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1979-11-08
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Communism, Communists, Mass shootings, Political violence, Cities and towns--Politics and government
Description: Topics include: Communist Workers Party; Communism; Ku Klux Klan; Mass shootings; Political violence; Greensboro (North Carolina) politics and government

Title: Dorothy Bardolph Center seniors event
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-08
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Public welfare, Social security--Law and legislation, Older people, Education, Higher education and state, Equal pay for equal work, Pensions--Law and legislation, Job security, Occupational training, Social values, American Dream, Parenting, Medicare, Medical care, Water--Pollution, Youth--Tobacco use--Prevention
Description: In this talk, Harvey Gantt elaborates on how negative connotations around welfare programs hurt people who need welfare programs the most, such as senior citizens and Medicaid recipients. He also talks about eduation and job training for young peo...

Title: Dudley High School, Greensboro (Drugs)
Creator: Sanders, Charles A., 1932-
Date Created: 1996-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, Primaries--U.S. states, Computers, Internet--Social aspects, Public schools, Education, Education and state, Student loans, Higher education and state, Federal aid to education, Health insurance, Medical care, Budget deficits, Early childhood education--Government policy, Student loans, Medicine--Research, Social values
Description: Charles Sanders delivers an informal speech to students in the library at Dudley High School in Greensboro. After the speech he answers questions from the audience.

Title: Emery Dalesio Q&A - UNC Greensboro
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation, Tax deductions, Education, Education, Higher, Student loans, Education and state, Medicare, Social security--Government policy, Environmental policy, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states, Bribery, Gay rights, Sex instruction, Subsidies
Description: Harvey Gantt delivers a speech at a rally at UNC Greensboro. The recording begins with two women's voices, and one plays the Greensboro speech over the phone. Gantt encourages young people to vote by invoking the Civil Rights Movement. He describe...

Title: Glenwood senior event
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-09
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Social values, Parenting, Social security--Law and legislation, Medicaid, Medicare, Older people, American Dream, Education, Higher--Economic aspects, Tax deductions, Student loans, Pensions--Law and legislation, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states
Description: Harvey Gantt speaks to seniors at a campagin event. He discusses his personal background and upbringing and how growing up poor, but in a close-knit community, helped shape his values. He also talks about health care and economic issues, and expla...

Title: Greensboro News & Record
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-09
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Public welfare, Family policy, Education, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states, Tax evasion, Voter turnout, Tobacco--Law and legislation, Education, Education and state, Early childhood education--Government policy, Business enterprises--Political aspects, Debates and debating
Description: Harvey Gantt answers questions from several reporters on Jesse Helms, and speaks on his disappointment with Helm's campaign tactics attempting to paint Gantt as a "left-wing nut" and outside of the mainstream by taking Gantt's words out of context...

Title: Health care, Greensboro
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-02-20
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, Primaries--U.S. states, Infants--Mortality--Prevention, Medical care, Medical care, Cost of, Health insurance, Health insurance--Costs, Health insurance continuation coverage, Taxation--Law and legislation, Drugs--Costs, Job security
Description: Charlie Sanders delivers a primary campaign speech focusing on health care in Greensboro. He is introduced by an unknown speaker. Topics include children, community coming together, high rate of infant mortality in NC and how he worked to reduce i...

Title: Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 2, 2016 May 14
Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, 1947-2021
Date Created: 2016-05-14
Subjects--Topical: Transphobia, Transgender people--Employment, Transgender people--Identity, Gay bars
Description: In this second of several interviews, Janice Covington, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues to discuss her personal history and reflects on transgender experiences over time in the Carolinas. She desc...

Title: Joan Tillotson oral history interview, 2016 June 19
Creator: Tillotson, Joan, 1927-
Date Created: 2016-06-19
Subjects--Topical: Physical education teachers, Women physical education teachers, Lesbians, Lesbian college students, Gay community, Lesbian relationships, Aging
Description: Joan Tillotson recounts her life as a lesbian, her experiences with relationships, and her career as physical education teacher in New York and as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses her formative years in N...

Title: John C. Quillin oral history interview 1, 2017 March 14
Creator: Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
Date Created: 2017-03-14
Subjects--Topical: Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Gay rights, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Social networks, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: In this first of two interviews, John Quillin, founder and managing artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, discusses his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian social and cultural organizations in Charlotte, and his role as...

Title: Kimberly Melton oral history interview, 2017 February 9
Creator: Melton, Kimberly A., (Kimberly Ann)
Date Created: 2017-02-09
Subjects--Topical: Women--Religious life, Bisexual women, Lesbian community, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Women--Political activity
Description: Kimberly Melton discusses her thirty years as an LGBTQ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Melton was raised under Catholicism until the age of thirteen--a year in her life she attributes with great importance. While attending junior high s...

Title: North Carolina A&T University students
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-08
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Student loans, Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Economic aspects, Education and state, Vocational education, Economic security, Equal pay for equal work, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states, Pensions--Law and legislation, Medicare, Medical care, Cost of, American Dream, Respect for persons
Description: Harvey Gantt delivers an energetic campaign speech at North Carolina A&T to students about his plans to work to expand Pell grants, to help against student debt, and job training programs post-graduation. He also speaks critically on Jesse Helms, ...

Title: Susan Jetton oral history interview, 2019 January 23
Creator: Jetton, Susan K.
Date Created: 2019-01-23
Subjects--Topical: Press secretaries, United States. Congress. Senate, Political campaigns, Fund raising, Mass media--Political aspects, Political television commercials, Race discrimination, Speechwriters, Reporters and reporting, Human Rights Campaign (U.S.), National Endowment for the Arts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Susan Jetton recounts her experience as press secretary for 1990 North Carolina senatorial candidate Harvey Gantt. She recalls meeting Mr. Gantt in the 1970s and her dedication to his senatorial campaign, which she describes as a "cause." Ms. Jett...

Title: Suzanne "Susie" O'Neal oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: O'Neal, Suzanne
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals
Description: Suzanne "Susie" Herndon O'Neal recalls a Billy Graham crusade that she, her mother, and her grandmother attended in the 1950s. Ms. O'Neal was around ten years old at the time of the crusade that she attended in Greensboro, North Carolina. She desc...

Title: UNC Greensboro, part 1
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation, Tax deductions, Education, Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Economic aspects, Student loans, Education and state, Higher education and state, School children--Food, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states, Medicare, Social security--Government policy, Older people, Subsidies, Conflict of interests, Environmental policy, Same-sex marriage, Gay rights, Tobacco farmers, Tobacco industry, Youth--Tobacco use--Prevention, Sex instruction, Public welfare
Description: Harvey Gantt delivers a campaign speech to students and his base at UNC Greensboro. He thanks students for their enthusiasm and support from the beginning of campaign and encourages young people to get involved politically (comparing to his experi...

Title: UNC Greensboro, part 2
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Public welfare, Affirmative action programs, Education, Education, Higher, Political participation
Description: Continuation of a recording of Harvey Gantt delivering a campaign speech to students and his base at UNC Greensboro. Recording begins in the question and answer session following the speech. Question topics include welfare, affirmative action (nee...

Title: UNC Greensboro, part 3 (interviews)
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Health insurance--Law and legislation, Race discrimination, Social values, Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Economic aspects, Student loans, Political participation, Advertising, Political, Medicare, Taxation--Law and legislation, Subsidies, Debts, Public
Description: Recording includes two interviews, labeled UNC Greensboro but possibly unrelated. In the first interview Gantt is interviewed by unknown speakers, possibly on a call-in radio program. The recording only includes Gantt's responses to the questions,...

Title: WXRA Greensboro and primary debate, side a
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Education, Higher--Finance, Pensions--Law and legislation, Health care reform
Description: Gantt criticizes Jesse Helms for not having debated since 1984 and not being in touch with his constituency anymore. Gantt is speaking to someone and answering questions (perhaps over the phone), but only Gantt is audible. This interview is likely...