Charlotte Morgan interview, 29 September 2018

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Charlotte Morgan discusses growing up in Cleveland, where she grew up in the Hough neighborhood in the 1950s and early '60s and then lived in Glenville starting in 1964. She remembers the large homes and fruit trees in the Glenville area in her youth. Morgan discusses her father's music career, including the musicians' union, his reputation as the Quincy Jones of the area, his band, and Leo's Casino. She details her journalism career, including meeting Ella Fitzgerald, working for Cleveland Scene and East Side News, and her focus on musical journalism. This interview, conducted at the Mt. Pleasant branch library, was part of a Literary Cleveland storytelling project.

Participants: Morgan, Charlotte (interviewee) / Souther, Mark (interviewer)
Collection: Project Team
Institutional Repository: Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection

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