Title: Oral history interview with J. Carlton Fleming, [date unknown]
Description: J. Carlton Fleming, who was on a Chamber of Commerce committee pushing for consolidation in Charlotte, NC, in the 1960s, tries to explain the demise of the issue in this interview. Fleming believes that consolidation failed because of the process: city bureaucracy made the issue too complex for Charlotte residents to understand, let alone support.. Fleming also downplays the role that race played in the process, arguing that busing did not affect the debate and that the main culprit was the political process.
Subjects: Interviews, Civic leaders, Metropolitan government, Politics and government, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Charter Commission
Places: North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte (N.C.)
People: J. Carlton Fleming