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Title, Date	Collection	Audio/Video	Transcript	Download
# Alfred L. Alexander Interview, 2001-05-10	NAACP Leadership		\|
- Mr. Alexander is the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and businessman, Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander. He served as the local NAACP president in 1990. Born and raised in the Brooklyn and University Park communities, Alexander describes race relations in Charlotte, his family`s role in the community, and his activities as a youth in the context of the civil rights struggle. He talks about his personal experiences as a child during the bombing of his home. *
# Kelly Alexander Jr. Interview, 2001-05-01	NAACP Leadership		\|
Alexander, Jr. Kelly [ + click to enlarge ]	x Mr. Alexander is the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and local businessman Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander. Like his brother, Alfred Alexander, he has been active on the civil rights scene in Charlotte for most of his life. He served as president of the local NAACP in 1986. During the interview, Mr. Alexander discusses his work on the local level with NAACP Youth Councils, local businessmen, and incidents he felt shaped the outcomes of desegregation in Charlotte, namely the bombing of his home along with those of other civil rights leaders. *
# Interview with Daisy S. Stroud, 2001-06-20	NAACP Leadership		\|
- A native Charlottean, Daisy Spears Stroud discusses her life in the city. She relates early encounters and her feelings as a young girl about race relations, both interracial and intra-racial. Spears discusses predominantly African American neighborhoods in Charlotte, including her own First Ward. As a life-long teacher, Stroud took part in the initial desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. She tells of her experiences as a faculty member transferring to an integrated school and working with white parents and colleagues. She discusses what she sees as the successes and failures of the Swann decision and its impact on the African American community *
# Interview with Madelyn Joyce S. Wilson, 2002-02-02	NAACP Leadership		\|
- Ms. Madelyn Wilson describes her experiences in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System as it underwent the process of integration. Ms. Wilson attended West Charlotte High School until her senior year when many of the students and teachers throughout the school system, both black and white, were bused to various schools throughout the county. Ms. Wilson shares how she felt when Judge James McMillan handed down the ruling on the integration of the school system and also describes a conversation she had with him many years later. In addition to describing how the various students and teachers reacted to the change, Wilson discusses how many students were deeply affected, both positively and negatively, by busing. Wilson makes it a point to explain that, as the years have passed, she has come to see the value of integration and busing, and, in the end, she believes that the decision to bus was the correct and most beneficial one. *

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