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Cone, Bonnie E. (Bonnie Ethel), 1907-. Papers, 1955-

Title: Papers, 1955-

Primarily personal papers created while Cone served as vice chancellor for student affairs and community relations at UNC-Charlotte.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19618313 View

Tillett, Gladys Avery, 1891-1984. Collection, 1960-1978 (bulk 1978).

Title: Collection, 1960-1978 (bulk 1978).

Material relating primarily to a celebration (1978) at Myers Park Baptist Church honoring this women's rights activist. Includes biographical material, notes of remarks by Bonnie E. Cone, biographical sketch of speaker Ruth Easterling, and a cassette recording of the event. Also includes a recording of the funeral service (1978) for the Rev. Carlyle Marney, minister of Myers Park Baptist Church (1958-67).

ArchivalResource: 12 items (including 1 cassette)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46876928 View

Caldwell, Ronald R. (Ronald Ranord). Interview with Ronald Caldwell [electronic resource] 2005 May 31 / interviewer: Lois Stickel [i.e. Stickell], Bridgette Sanders ; transcriber: Ruth F. Griffin.

Title: Interview with Ronald Caldwell [electronic resource] 2005 May 31 / interviewer: Lois Stickel [i.e. Stickell], Bridgette Sanders ; transcriber: Ruth F. Griffin.

Ronald Caldwell begins his interview with a description of UNC Charlotte when he was a freshman in 1967. Most of the few African Americans who were there were involved in the Black Student Union. He recalls Stokely Carmichael's visit to Charlotte and campus in 1968. He remembers an initial meeting with only African Americans in attendance. Bonnie Cone did not attend this meeting; the doors were locked. Caldwell, a co-leader of the Black Student Union with Ben Chavis, discusses the flag incident in detail. Some of his recollections, including whether or not the doors to the administration building were locked, conflict with some of the other interviews in this series. However, he does confirm the positive role played by Bonnie Cone, calling her "a significant diffusing element." The goal of UNC Charlotte's administration was integration, but they administrators made clear that no discrimination on either side would be tolerated. Caldwell uses admittance to African American Studies, and the wording of the Black Student Union constitution as examples. He admits that Bonnie Cone in particular helped many African American students get scholarships, be accepted into graduate schools, and establish of African American Studies program. He recalls Dean Colvard having a less hands-on approach to working with the African American students. He attributes this to Colvard's need to be more political. Caldwell reiterates several times during the interview that they always acted within the law.

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Lafferty, John (John Ogden), 1947-. Interview with John Lafferty [electronic resource] 2004 October 11 / interviewer: Lois Stickel [i.e. Stickell], Bridgette Sanders ; transcriber: Ruth F. Griffin.

Title: Interview with John Lafferty [electronic resource] 2004 October 11 / interviewer: Lois Stickel [i.e. Stickell], Bridgette Sanders ; transcriber: Ruth F. Griffin.

'John Lafferty relates his thoughts growing up in a segregated Charlotte, N.C. and vivid memories of visiting the Brooklyn neighborhood with his father. He describes attending the all-white McCallie School, while assuring the interviewers that it was not an overtly racist school. He uses an an example the incident where an African American man was accused of raping a white woman in Chattanooga. He was convicted but a young African American lawyer appealed the case to the Supreme Court. When the convicted man was lynched, the headmaster, Dr. McCallie, sheltered the young lawyer in the McCallie home. Lafferty describes other first hand experience with the turbulent '60s, including discussing Alan Stoudemire's book about the desegregation of Lincolnton High School. UNC Charlotte was not yet integrated school when Lafferty started in 1966 as a sophmore. He remembers UNC Charlotte as being an intense and great place and academically rigorous. He considers his professors such as John Robbins and Dan Morrill as bright young faculty. Bonnie Cone personally befriended all students. Lafferty and others started the first Rotaract Club in the world on the UNC Charlotte campus. Ronald Caldwell became a member of this group. Lafferty was part of a group of students who were instrumental in starting a track team. They were joined by such fellow students as Ben Chavis, T.J. Reddy, and Maurice McClettie. Lafferty recounts their experiences on and off the track. He reveals how McClettie became known as "the folding colored boy." The Vietnam War was at its height during this period. Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. In the Fall of 1968, Lafferty remembers returning to classes to see major changes in his African American teammates. Chavis, who had been clean-cut when Lafferty first met him, had changed his looks radically and carried Mao's book with him. T.J. Reddy and Ronald Caldwell had also become radical in appearance and opinions. Ben Chavis was instrumental in starting Students for Action. Lafferty recounts the events which unfolded when Stokley Carmichael appeared on campus and ben Chavis took over the Parquet (later Lucas) Room for a meeting. It was open only to African American students until Ms Cone pushed a guard away and walked in. Lafferty describes the resulting case against Chavis which was taken to student court, where Lafferty was the chief justice. Lafferty ends with summaries of later campus demonstrations, riots, Wilmington, Lazy B barn burning, etc.

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Gus's Original Forty Niner Restaurant (Charlotte, N.C.) memorabilia, 1971-1996.

Title: Gus's Original Forty Niner Restaurant (Charlotte, N.C.) memorabilia, 1971-1996.

Memorabilia relating to the restaurant, formerly located near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Includes photographs of Dean W. Colvard and Bonnie E. Cone.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (including 1 photograph)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48519813 View