Interview with Walter Dial [electronic resource] 2004 May 12 / interviewer: Hope Murphy ; transcriber: Adele Barnes.

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Interview with Walter Dial [electronic resource] 2004 May 12 / interviewer: Hope Murphy ; transcriber: Adele Barnes.

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Walter Dial begins his interview by describing growing up in the Third Ward neighborhood and going to elementary school at Isabella Wyche He goes into some detail about his experiences with school discipline. Dial's family were members of the First Baptist West Church. All churches in the neighborhood sponsored summer programs (such as Baptist Training Union) for children. He reminisces about such popular past times as roller skating, going to the movies at Lincoln Theater, and riding the trains thanks to free passes given to him by a neighbor. At Second Ward High School, he was on some school teams. Dial talks about working as a paperboy, making a bicycle so he could work for Western Union, and working in the school cafeteria so he could get free lunches. Dial relates his work at Mercy Hospital before being drafted into the army. Dial shares with the interviewer, the story of a neighborhood called Blue Heaven. He remembers visits by Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Marian Anderson as part of the neighborhood's Lyceum programs. Dial's love of Second Ward and the camaraderie of the neighborhood pervades his interview.

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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