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Common Ground oral history and interview collection
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG19-06
Scope and Contents
Common Ground was formed in August 1995. The purpose of this grass-roots organization is to promote communication and understanding and improve relations among people of all races in Davidson. The following interviews and meeting records chronicle the work of Common Ground and the challenges they worked to overcome. To learn more about Common Ground please review the maunscript collection, DC056: Common...
Dates:
1997 - 2000
Found in:
Oral Histories & Interviews (RG19)
Common Ground Records
Collection
Identifier: DC056
Scope and Contents
Series Description: The collection consists of minutes of both public meetings and the Executive Council, as well as the Community Relations Task Force. Also included are agendas, correspondence, and email correspondence. Additionally, the collection includes records from the Mediation Committee, SWAT, Committee for Affordable Housing, and the Drug and Alcohol Committee, publicity files, news clippings, copies of an annotated bibliography on race relations prepared by Heather Baker, Jim...
Dates:
1995 - 2003
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Davidson College Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0300s
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into the following series: 1) DC0300s-DC, Maps of Davidson College. 2) DC0300s-D, Maps of the Town of Davidson and nearby areas. This series includes a 1988 map of the proposed downtown mall. There are duplicates of the 1958 map, which are numbered individually because of unique notes and drawings. 3) DC0300s-LN, Maps of Lake Norman and nearby areas. Includes a booklet of maps. 4) DC0300s-Ch, Maps of Charlotte and nearby areas. 5) DC0300s-Meck, Maps of Mecklenburg...
Dates:
1825 - 2002
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Frank Lee Jackson Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC049
Scope and Contents
The collection contains biographical information, correspondence, literary materials, printed materials, photographs, memorabilia, and restricted information. The biographical information includes information about his years at Davidson, general biographical information and biographical sketches, obituaries and memorials, and information about his family. The correspondence is from 1929-1975 and includes letters from former presidents of Davidson College and also correspondence related to...
Dates:
1906 - 1971
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Lucy Martin Currie Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0193s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Currie's reminiscences of growing up in Davidson (1922), notes for a talk on Davidson history for the Tuesday Club, a typescript "Fact and Fiction About Old Davidson" written for the Thelemite Book Club (1955), a typescript of a talk on "Our Foreign Alumni, copies of newspaper clippings relating to Currie and 2 photographs. See also DC028, Dr. William J. Martin Collection for family information and DC040, Thelemite Book Club for an original typescript with...
Dates:
1922 - 1967
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Mrs. Goudyloch Erwin Dyer Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: DC0142s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a typescript of a program presented to the Davidson Historical Society. The program was entitled,"Growing Up In Davidson and the typescript includes photographs of Davidson
Dates:
1992
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Robert Gordon Sparrow Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0084s
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of six issues of the newspaper and a speech on Charles Egbert Craddock given April 29, 1887. The newspapers are housed with oversize materials. Issues include 11 May 1883 (no. 16), 8 June 1883 (no.20), 21 June 1883 (no. 22), 29 June 1883 (no23), 18 January 1884, and 1 February 1884 (no 27). The paper began as the Weekly Enterprise, by January 1884 it was known as the Davidson College Enterprise.
Dates:
1887
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Thomas Thweatt Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0243s
Scope and Contents
The file folder titled "Brochures" contains program brochures from the Carolina Theater, the School of Music of the Flora Macdonald College in Red Springs, N.C., an essay defending America's involvement in wars, and the Junior Speaking brochure from 1924. The file folder marked "Correspondence" contains a letter providing information on the college class ring; a letter from W.E. Bowman, Registrar for the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1928; a letter from a girl accepting an...
Dates:
1924 - 1927
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
William Alexander Jetton Papers
Collection
Identifier: DC0198s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, printed materials, and financial materials. The correspondence concerns Jetton's license as a Registered Pharmacist, invitations, and voter registration. The printed materials include a 1922 directory of Druggists in North Carolina, soft drink tickets, and a newsletter, "The Dixie Queen," issued by William Leslie Harvey in Iredell County. The financial materials are cancelled checks for 1903 to 1906.
Dates:
1903 - 1922
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
William James Cooper Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0244s
Scope and Contents
During his student years at Davidson College, Cooper kept a student scrapbook. The scrapbook covers the years from 1919-1923. Information on various R.O.T.C. camps including Camp Henry Knox (Kentucky) and Camp Jackson (South Carolina) is available in the scrapbook. The book also contains some superb photographs of Golf in the 1920's and of Egg Rock, Table Rock and the Gullies near Davidson, N.C. Please see the individual listings for further information. In addition to the scrapbook, the...
Dates:
1919 - 1923
Found in:
Manuscript Collections