Interview with Theodore Roosevelt Wilson, 2002 September 20
Item
- Description
- Interview with T. R. Wilson, conducted by Jan Blodgett on September 20, 2002.
- T.R. Wilson was a gardener for the town of Davidson for over 50 years. In this oral history he takes interviewer Jan Blodgett on a tour of the town, recounting how the buildings and the people of Davidson have changed over time. Wilson was born in Davidson at Crane and Gable Street, and he begins by remembering his early life in town, including the community center at the Ada Jenkins school where he and his friends would play baseball. Wilson then describes the different degrees of discrimination practiced by businesses he frequented in downtown Davidson during the Jim Crow era. He follows this by showing Blodgett the location of his childhood home, then giving an overview of how his parents decided to come to Davidson and their experience while living in the town. After briefly elaborating on significant locations in the Davidson/ Cornelius area that he remembers from his youth, Wilson concludes the interview by sharing the scope of his job history and where it led him before his eventual return to Davidson.
- Date
- 2002 September 20
- Format
- mp3 (audio)
- pdf (transcript)
- Identifier
- OHI-0092
- Language
- EN
- Publisher
- Davidson College
- Subject
- Oral History
- History of Mecklenburg County
- Type
- Sound
- Text
- interviewer
- Jan Blodgett
- interviewee
- Theodore Roosevelt Wilson
- Duration
- 1:01:56
