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In this oral history interview Gerald Prokopowicz discusses his experiences as a faculty member at East Carolina University and chair of the History Department as well as his early life, family background, education, and research.
Oral history interview by Nathan E. Weil, in Greenville, NC, pertaining to McCabe Coolidge (1970-2003), former minister, self-employed potter and writer, a resident of the Lakewood Pines Neighborhood. It is part of the Lakewood Pines Neighborhood Oral History Project, which was initiated to help the Association oppose the construction of a 500 unit apartment complex. Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. LuAnn Jones' History 5960 (Fall 2003) class requirements. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.5.c.
Oral history interviews relating to his youth and his experiences, 1917-1972, as the second African-American midshipman to attend the United States Naval Academy (Class of 1941) for approximately three weeks during the summer of 1937, and his education and career as a teacher in the Washington, DC school system, 1942-1972. Received 8/26/1997, 3/23/2004.
Stuart Carr, a Greenville, N.C., native, describes his experiences working at the Greenville Fertilizer Company at the beginning of the Depression; and then his years with the E. B. Ficklen Tobacco Company in Greenville (1938-1950) with responsibility for the Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company, which sold American tobacco to Chinese manufacturers. He describes the tobacco business in China, the Japanese presence before and during WWII in China, and the loss of his company's assets with the Communist takeover in China. He goes on to discuss the more contemporary involvement of Thailand in the tobacco market and China's contemporary relationship with American tobacco companies.
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