Race and Desegregation: West Charlotte High School

"Listen to the Voices of West Charlotte High"

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Pam Grundy

Pam Grundy

Pamela Grundy, coordinator of the SOHP's "Listening for a Change" project documenting race and desegregation at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a lecturer in history at Davidson College. She holds a doctorate in history from UNC-Chapel Hill. In conjunction with her work at West Charlotte High, Grundy curated the oral history-based exhibit "Carrying the Spirit: Voices of Desegregation at West Charlotte High School" for the Museum of the New South. Grundy is author of "You Always Think of Home:" A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama and Learning to Win: Sport, Education and Social Change In North Carolina, 1880-1970.

Dr. Grundy can be reached via pamgrundy@earthlink.net.


Oral History Publications

Books

  • Learning to Win: Sport, Education and Social Change in North Carolina, 1880-1970 (UNC Press, forthcoming 2001)
  • "You Always Think of Home:" A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama (University of Georgia Press, 1991).

Selected Articles
  • "From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920-1960," in Journal of American History 86, June 2000.
  • "'We Always Tried to Be Good People:' Respectability, Crazy Water Crystals and Hillbilly Music on the Air, 1933-1935," in Journal of American History 81, March 1995.
  • "From Il Trovatore to the Crazy Mountaineers: The Rise and Fall of Elevated Culture on WBT-Charlotte, 1922-1930," in Southern Cultures 1, Fall 1994.
  • "'The Creek is Just Real Important to Me': Politics and Culture in the Cane Creek Reservoir Controversy, 1976-89," in Ronald J. Grele, ed., International Annual of Oral History, 1990: Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History (Greenwood Press, 1992).
  • "'I Just Had Such a Hankering for Music:' Changing Musical Traditions in North Carolina's Western Piedmont," in Bob Carlin and Pamela Grundy, Musical Change in the Western Piedmont: A Research Summary (Davidson County Community College, 1991).

Selected Exhibitions
  • Curator: "Carrying the Spirit: Voices of Desegregation at West Charlotte High School," sponsored by the Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 1999-April 2000.
  • Curator: "Don't Touch That Dial: Carolina Radio since the 1920s," sponsored by the Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 1997-April 1998.
  • Curator and Program Advisor: "Hoops and Goals: A Century of Women's Basketball," sponsored by the Museum of the New South, March-Aug. 1996.
  • Director: "'You Always Think of Home': Images of Clay County, Alabama," photographic exhibition and public programs sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, 1991.

Selected Presentations
  • "From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920-1954," at 63rd Annual Meeting, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1997.
  • "Alabama Landmarks: History, Identity and Landscape In Clay County, Alabama," at 30th Annual Meeting, Oral History Association, Philadelphia, Penn., Oct. 1996.
  • "Basketball, Oral History and Democracy: Reconfiguring North Carolina's Basketball Narrative," at 2nd Annual Meeting, Southern Oral History Association, Durham, N.C., March 1995.




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