Worcester, MA: The Author, 1845. 48 p.

Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron remembers her long working life in the clothing industry in North Carolina.

A white student's experience with racial division at West Charlotte convinces her of the importance of integrated education.

Charles Adams was a teacher and coach in Wake County, North Carolina, during the 1960s before becoming the Assistant Director (and later the Director) of the North Carolina High Schools Athletics Association. In addition, Adams' father was a leader of the effort to desegregate Wake County schools. Consequently, Adams offers an insider's perspective on the process of school desegregation, focusing specifically on Cary, North Carolina, as a pioneer and model for other local schools.

Two-time mayor and newspaper publisher Floyd Adams, Jr., describes urban renewal past and present in Savannah, GA, and its impact on the black community.

London: Partridge and Oakey, 1854. ii, xxxi, 168 p.

Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872. 64 p.

Philadelphia: J. H. Cunningham, 1817. 192 p.

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publication House, 1922. 34 p.

Wilmington [Del.]: P. H. Eckel, 1871. 156 p.

[Aberdeen, UK]: [Published for the Author, W. Bennett, Printer], [1846]. 44 p.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 327 p.

New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1890. xv, 161 p.

Boston: Gold Mind, 1929. 171 p.

[Raleigh? N.C.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 8 p.

Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1914. [14], 429 p.

Frederick Douglas Alexander served as a city council member who worked to consolidate Charlotte-Mecklenburg County from 1969 to 1971. He discusses the failures of the consolidation movement.

Cary Joseph Allen, Jr., an aluminum worker for Alcoa in Badin, North Carolina, describes the establishment of a local branch of the Aluminum Workers of America in the mid-1930s. Initial efforts at organization were hampered by the strong paternalistic influence Alco exerted over the community, yet efforts to unionize had succeeded by 1937.

New York: [s.n.], 1848. 43 p.

Philadelphia: Martin & Boden, Printers, 1833. 60 p.

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. xliv, 115 p.

Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1851. 30 p.

3 pages, 3 page images.

Granville County, North Carolina, resident Floyd Alston and his mother, Ethel Thorpe Austin, remember their lives in the area in an interview that touches on, among other topics, racial identity and the struggles of post-emancipation African Americans to find economic and social security.

1 pages, 2 page images.

3 pages, 4 page images.

3 pages, 3 page images.

3 pages, 4 page images.

Mars Hill, N.C., town manager Darhyl Boone fondly remembers his childhood in Madison County but worries that small-town values are being eroded by development.

Jerry Lee Plemmons, a lifetime Madison County resident and energy conservation consultant, discusses the influence of development, particularly highway construction, on Marshall, NC.

John Ledford, the sheriff of Madison County, NC, describes the effects of economic growth on his job and his community.

Larry Kelley shares the details of a lifetime of farming and other rural work while discussing the hardships he and others faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.

Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, both over 80, express concern with the erosion of more values and discuss their frustrations with the government after Hurricane Floyd.

Mars Hill, N.C., mayor Raymond Rapp outlines his vision for planned development and discusses how to find balance between the desire for a small-town feel and a big-town economy.

Raymond and Eunice English, along with their son and nephew, worry that Hurricane Floyd may have irreparably crippled the aging Duplin County, N.C., farming community.

Renee and Ashley Lee reminisce about life in Whitestocking, N.C., and express frustration with the government's sluggish and bureaucracy-laden relief effort.

In this interview, Richard Lee Hoffman Jr., a real estate broker in Mars Hill, N.C., describes his response to the growth ushered in by the construction of the I-26 corridor.

Sam Parker, Madison County Probation/Parole Officer, praises rural life in the interview.

Stan Hyatt, the Department of Transportations resident engineer on the I-26 project, misses the past but sees the corridor as a cure for Madison County's economic ills.

Taylor Barnhill, an environmental activist concerned about the effects of development on communities, describes his rural childhood and its impact on his adult life.

The Hudsons explain that although God used the Floyd flood to warn against materialism, He helped many escape the floodwaters and oversaw astonishing generosity afterward.

Springfield, Mass.: [s. n.], 1906. 125 p.

Macon, GA: The Author, 1895. viii, 17-112 p.

Macon, GA: Printed for the Author, 1892. 151 p.

Virginia: s. n., 1854?. 12 p.

4 pages, 4 page images.

10 pages, 12 page images.

Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857. 81 p.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. 387 p.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. [i-iii], 341 p.

[Raleigh, N. C.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 8 p.

[Durham, N.C.: Press of the Seeman Printery, 1920]. 229 p.

In Training School Quarterly. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct., Nov., Dec. 1917). Greenville, N. C.: East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1917. 208-211 p.

Charlotte, N. C.: Executive Committee of Anti-Saloon League, 1908. 32 p.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. 337 p.

Manchester and London: W. Irwin, 1848. 604 p.

4 pages, 4 page images.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.

In Training School Quarterly. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct., Nov., Dec. 1917). Greenville, N. C.: East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1917. 215-216 p.

Southern novelist Harriette Arnow discusses what it was like to grow up in Kentucky during the 1910s and 1920s. The teacher turned writer focuses especially on her family relationships, her experiences in school and in teaching, her goals as a writer, and her views on marriage and family.

Atlanta, Ga.: The Hudgins Publishing Company, 1903, c1902. 378 p.

African American Birmingham City Council member Richard Arrington discusses the slowly increasing presence of African Americans on Birmingham's political landscape.

Atlanta, Georgia: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. 126 p.

[Boston: s.n., 1768]. 1 p.

Textile Workers Union of America organizer and regional director Scott Hoyman discusses the Oneita Knitting Mill strike of 1973 in South Carolina. Throughout the interview, he focuses on strategies of the TWUA in organizing textile workers, bargaining and negotiating with textile companies, and tactics for successfully protecting workers' rights.

New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 327 p.

4 pages, 5 page images.

Florida governor Reubin Askew describes his approach to politics and comments on the political character of Florida and the American South.

Richmond: [s. n.], 1863. 1 p.

Richmond: [s. n.], 1863. 1 p.

3 pages, 3 page images.

[Raleigh, N.C.?: s.n.], 1862. 15 p.

Wilmington, N.C.: Fulton & Price, Steam Power Press Printers, 1861. 14 p.

[Raleigh, N.C.?]: Printed at the Office of the Church Intelligencer, 1861. 8 p.

Chapel Hill: The University, 1922. 46 p.

James Atwater discusses life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from the 1930s to the 1950s. He describes the black community, the impact of segregation on schools and neighborhoods, and experiences of African American staff at the University.

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., 1905, c1888. 600 p.

Augusta, Ga.: Printed at the office of the Constitutional, 1861. 11 p.

Eunice Austen recalls the changes that took place in North Carolina mills over the years.

Eunice Austin remembers her life in Catawba County, NC, focusing on her many years working in the textile and furniture industries.

Roy Lee Auton reflects on a string of jobs and a string of wives in this engaging interview.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. x, 384 p.

Charlotte, N.C.: Avery, 1905. xviii, 1-271 p.

12 pages, 12 page images.

3 pages, 4 page images.

New York; Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely Co., c1901. x, 202 p.

Grace Aycock briefly describes her childhood and her education in North Carolina during the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the interview is dedicated to a discussion of Aycock's life with her husband, William Aycock, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina (1957-1964). She also discusses her husband's decision to return to teaching, her pursuit of a Master's degree in social work, and her battle with multiple sclerosis.

[United States]: Central States Paper Trade Association, [between 1914 and 1918].

2 pages, 3 page images.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. viii, 512 p.

Richmond: West, Johnston & Co., 1879. 37 p.

2 pages, 2 page images.

6 pages, 6 page images.

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4 pages, 4 page images.

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Charlotte political operative Allen Bailey shares his thoughts on politics and community.

Raleigh Bailey describes his work with Southeast Asian immigrant groups in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Lifelong Chatham County, North Carolina, resident Nancy Brown Tysor describes the changes she has witnessed in Siler City.

4 p.

Hill Baker recalls his long working life as a railroad worker and a factory employee in Conover, NC.

Oscar Dearmont Baker spent his childhood and most of his adult life in Conover, North Carolina. In this interview, he describes his experiences working in the furniture and hosiery industries, paying particular attention to his time spent at Conover Furniture. He also describes broader changes within the city of Conover.

Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co., 1866. 42 p.

New York; London: D Appleton and Co., 1854, c1853. x, 330 p.

New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Asher & Co., 1859. 430 p.

New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1837. xii, 13-517 p.

Strom Thurmond discusses his childhood and the people who inspired his long political career. He focuses on his parents' work and on local politicians like Benjamin Tillman. He recounts how he lived out his values in regards to the United States constitution and race relations. As an attorney, judge, and governor, Thurmond advocated for states' rights and witnessed the desegregation of South Carolina.

Wilmington, N. C.: Bannister, Cowan, 1869. viii, 116 p.

Goldsboro, N.C.: Nash Brothers, Printers and Binders, 1922. 20 p.

[Virginia?: The Association?, 1863?]. 8 p.

Raleigh: W.W. Holden, printer, 1864. 32 p.

Detroit: Geo. E. Pomeroy & Co., 1854. 65, [1] p.

Annie Mack Barbee describes her life as a worker in the segregated Liggett & Myers tobacco factories, and discusses how gender, class and race affected her life and the choices she made.

New Haven, Ct.: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840. 32 p.

Coleman Barbour reflects on the diminished power of black principals as well as the state of the black community and its waning investment in education.

Richard Barentine, CEO of the International Home Furnishing Marketing Association, describes his leadership style and his contributions to Winston-Salem's furniture industry.

[Boston, Mass.]: [Directors of the Old South Work], [1898]. 20 p.

From 1981 to 1996, Anne Barnes sat in the North Carolina House of Representatives for Orange County. While there, she focused on issues of social justice, especially poverty, education, prison reform, civil rights and women's rights. In this 1989 interview, she gives an overview of her childhood and early adulthood before explaining how those experiences motivated her to become involved in the political arena. Here she discusses some of the political campaigns she has been associated with, including her own.

2 pages, 2 page images.

Raleigh: Office of the "Weekly Post", 1852. [ii], 32 p.

Washington, D.C.: National War Garden Commission, 1919.

Taylor Barnhill, an environmental activist concerned about the effects of development on communities, describes his rural childhood and its impact on his adult life.

Richmond, Va: James Woodhouse, 1859. 34 p.

Richmond [Va.]: M. A. Malsby, 1863. 79, [5] p.

Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson, 1791. xxxiv, 522 p.

Aaron Henry describes the role of race and racism in Mississippi politics.

Andrew Young, the first African American congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction, describes his involvement in the early civil rights movements. After dedicating much time and energy to voter registration drives as a minister in Georgia, Young later entered politics and was first elected to Congress in 1972. Young cites the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the decisive turning point in race relations and argues that it was this access to political power that allowed African Americans to bring to fruition other advances they had made in education, business, and social standing.

Birmingham politician Arthur Shores offers his thoughts on the intersection of race and politics in his home city.

Bert Nettles discusses the state of politics and the Republican Party in Alabama in the 1970s. He discusses, among other things, desegregation, the need for honesty and ethics reform in the political system, and the effect of Watergate on the Republican Party.

Claude Pepper reflects on his political career and the rise of conservatism in Florida.

David Pryor discusses the new political order in Arkansas just months before he won the state's governorship.

Political journalist Ferrel Guillory describes the state of party politics in North Carolina.

Civil rights activist Floyd McKissick evaluates the legacies of the civil rights movement and looks toward its next phase in the 1970s.

A two-term member of the Texas state legislature, France Farenthold describes reform efforts in Texas politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, Farenthold talks about what she perceives as a decline in overt racism during the post-World War II years, the role of women, and other demographic and sociocultural changes in Texas politics.

Longstanding Alabama governor and former presidential candidate George Wallace discusses Alabama politics and racial issues in the United States.

H. M. Michaux, a Durham, NC, state representative, describes the role of black electoral politics in North Carolina's state government. He reflects on staying power of the Republican Party in Southern politics.

Journalist Hodding Carter describes the changes wrought in Mississippi by the civil rights movement.

Howell Heflin, who sat on the Alabama State Supreme Court in the 1970s before a two-decade tenure in the US Senate, discusses the post-segregation Alabama judiciary.

Senator Jesse Helms describes some of his political positions, and reflects on the state of the Republican Party.

Jimmy Carter, the governor of Georgia, discusses the growing influence of the Democratic Party in southern states and links it to distinctly southern trends like increased voter participation and the impact of the civil rights movement.

John Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. In this interview, rich with vivid detail, Lewis outlines his role within the civil rights movement through his participation in the sit-in movement of 1960 in Nashville, the Freedom Rides through Alabama and Mississippi in 1961, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, the voter registration drive (primarily in Selma, Alabama) in 1965, and the shift towards the politics of black power within SNCC by 1966. Throughout the interview, he situates the activities of SNCC within the civil rights movement more broadly, focusing on issues of leadership, religion, and politics.

New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu describes the changing political landscape of the Crescent City following World War II through his tenure as mayor in the 1970s. Stressing the importance of voter registration and the appointment of African American public officials, Landrieu emphasizes the role of political leadership in effecting real change in New Orleans race relations during the long years of the civil rights movement.

Nancy Palm was the chairperson of the Republican Party in Harris County, Texas, during the 1960s and 1970s. She describes her own transition from liberal to conservative in the 1950s; the importance of political organization to the evolution of the Republican Party in Texas; her perception of women's liberation, and the role of such politicians as John G. Tower, John Connally, George Bush, and Richard Nixon in the rise of Southern conservatism

Orval Faubus defends his legacy.

Florida governor Reubin Askew describes his approach to politics and comments on the political character of Florida and the American South.

African American Birmingham City Council member Richard Arrington discusses the slowly increasing presence of African Americans on Birmingham's political landscape.

Rita Jackson Samuels, Coordinator of the Governor's Council on Human Relations in Atlanta, GA, describes her role in expanding the presence of African Americans in Georgia's state government.

Terry Sanford recalls his political career as a Democratic governor of North Carolina. He explains the impact of race on Southern politics and the realignment of political parties in the late twentieth century. Sanford attempts to reject the image of Southern exceptionalism.

Birmingham lawyer and politician U.W. Clemon describes his place in Birmingham politics and the city's continuing problems with race.

Bill Clinton discusses his victory in an Arkansas Democratic Congressional primary and his upcoming race against the incumbent Republican Congressman.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1898. 74, x p.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1894. 73 p.

[Washington]: [Govt. Print. Off.], [1895]. 141-212 p.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896. 86, [x] p.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1899. 111, xi p.

Journalist and activist Daisy Bates recalls working for civil rights in desegregation-era Arkansas.

Racism and segregation return to declining integrated schools.

African American reflects on race and protest in segregated Chapel Hill, NC.

Greensboro, NC: Thomas, Reece & Co., Printers, 1883. 15 p.

Raleigh, N.C.: Printed for the Author by Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1907. x, 880 p.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1912. ix, 1-875 p.

8 pages, 8 page images.

St. Louis, Mo.: Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co., c1909. 355 p.

4 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 5 page images.

London: Harvey and Darton, 1825. ix, 1-48 p.

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton, & Co., Printers and Binders, 1878. 16 p.

Weldon, N. C.: Printed at Harrell's Printing House, 1887. 12 p.

Toronto, Ont.; Naperville, Ill.: J. L. Nichols & Co., c1901. 455 p.

[North Carolina?: s.n., 1898?]. 212 p.

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. 335 p.

Boston: James Redpath, 1863. x, [13]-372 p.

Leroy Beavers despairs of the effects of integration on Savannah, Georgia.

Harvey E. Beech describes his journey to becoming a lawyer fighting for legal justice. In 1951, he was one of five students who made up the first group of African Americans to attend the University of North Carolina's law school. Beech assesses the racial changes since the mid-twentieth century and discusses racism in contemporary America.

Venton Bell, principal of Harding High School in Charlotte, NC, describes his duties and reflects on race and education.

2 pages, 3 page images.

[United States]: [United War Work Campaign], [between 1914 and 1918].

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1863. 16 p.

Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., 1918.

3 pages, 4 page images.

2 pages, 4 page images.

Atlanta, Ga.: M. Lynch & Co., 1861. vi, 46 p.

Gordon Berkstresser III shares the fruits of his study of the textile industry.

Physician Andrew Best recalls his encounters with racial segregation inside and outside Pitt County Memorial Hospital in civil rights-era North Carolina.

In Training School Quarterly. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct., Nov., Dec. 1917). Greenville, N. C.: East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1917. 220-222 p.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 36 p.

Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch remembers her childhood in an African-American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and her experiences with segregation and development.

[Greenville? S. C.: s.n., 190-?]. 103 p.

3 pages, 3 page images.

London: Printed for R. Parker, 1705. [xii], 104, 40, 64, 83, 16, [17-20], 15 plates p.

New York: Author, 1849. 207 p.

Augusta, Ga.: Printed at the office of the Constitutionalist, 1862. 43 p.

From Public Letters and Papers of Thomas Walter Bickett. Governor of North Carolina, 1917-1921. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1923. 172-181 p.

From Public Letters and Papers of Thomas Walter Bickett. Governor of North Carolina, 1917-1921. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1923. 137-138 p.

From Public Letters and Papers of Thomas Walter Bickett. Governor of North Carolina, 1917-1921. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1923. [1] p.

Raleigh, [N.C.]: Edwards & Broughton, 1915. 51 p.

Jeff Black reflects on the legacies of desegregation at West Charlotte High School, a school hailed as an exemplar of successful desegregation.

New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1847. 63 p.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. xxv, 139 p.

Nashville, Tenn.: Published for the Author, 1861. 224 p.

Vickie Jacobs describes her career in North Carolina's furniture industry, including her time on the job and her response to the closing of the Hillsborough location of the White Furniture Company.

Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880. 32 p.

2 pages, 2 page images.

Elizabeth and Courtney Siceloff recall their work with the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and with the Penn School. The interview centers largely on the internal problems and external mission of the Fellowship.

Jean Fairfax first moved to the South in 1942, where she became involved with the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen for several years. Fairfax describes the goals and activities of the Fellowship, discusses the role of leadership in the Fellowship, and draws connections between her work with the Fellowship in the 1940s and her later involvement with the civil rights movement from the late 1950s on.

Nancy Kester Neale remembers her father, Howard "Buck" Kester, who founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and held leadership positions in the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice.

Nelle Morton served as the General Secretary of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen from 1944 to 1950. In this interview, she describes her perception of the leaders of the Fellowship and the organization's aims and strategies in advocating for various social justice causes, including racial integration and labor activism. In addition, she describes her leadership of a male-dominated organization and how her work with the Fellowship raised her awareness of the need for women's liberation as well.

Virginia Grantham discusses her thoughts on the Fellowship of Southern Churchman and her participation in it, primarily during the 1950s. In the interview, she focuses on such topics as leadership, socialism, and connections to the civil rights movement.

London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1873. [1], 187, [1] p.

2 pages, 3 page images.

London: Printed for R. Ford, 1734. viii, 63 p.

Henry Frye grew up in a segregated farming community in North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s before becoming a lawyer. He went on to become the first African American elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and to serve on the state Supreme Court. In this interview, he describes race relations, his career as a lawyer, and his experiences in politics.

Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs discusses changes in Louisiana politics dating back to the 1930s, when she participated in the People's League, and through the 1950s and 1960s, which saw the gradual elimination of the "race issue" in politics. Boggs offers her thoughts on the nature of the Louisiana congressional delegation, the role of the South in Congress, and the impact of the women's movement on Congress during the 1970s.

Durham, N.C.: The Seeman Printery, 1913. xxiii, 115 p.

Philadelphia: Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863. 24 p.

Kathryn Killian and her sister Blanche Bolick recall their upbringing near Conover, NC, and their careers making gloves.

Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, [1861?]. 200 p.

Madison, Ark.: The Journal printing company, 1917. 384 p.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. 187 p.

Mars Hill, N.C., town manager Darhyl Boone fondly remembers his childhood in Madison County but worries that small-town values are being eroded by development.

Koka Booth, former mayor of Cary, NC, describes the growth of his city during his 12-year tenure.

Birmingham: Alabama Publishing Company, 1895. 267 p.

[Oxford, N.C.]: [The Orphanage], 1939. [8] p.

New York: Printed by S. W. Benedict, 1845. 91 p.

Atlanta: Gammon Theological Seminary, 1896. 242 p.

Richard Bowman reflects on growing up in segregated Asheville, North Carolina, and facing racism during his employment with the Army and the Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles. He also discusses his work to improve the current Asheville school district and rebuild his old high school. He lived in Los Angeles for four decades and experienced two major riots.

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. xi, 291 p.

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. xv, 280 p.

Rosamonde R. Boyd shares her observations on women's activism in the early 20th century.

Washington: [American Historical Association], 1912. [165-177] p.

Richmond: West & Johnston, 1863. 198 p.

New York: Published for the author by Geo. R. Lockwood and Son, 1886. 149 p.

Auburn [N.Y.]: W.J. Moses, printer, 1869. 134 p.

Baltimore, Md.: Church Advocate Press, 1922. 319 p.

Baltimore, Md.: Church Advocate Press, 1914. 135 p.

[Baltimore]: [Church Advocate Press], [1915]. [18] p.

Chicago: The Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., c1912. 107 p.

Dalton, Ga.: A.J. Showalter Co. Printers and Publishers, 1929. 64 p.

Raleigh: Branson & Farrar, 1866. 200 p.

Raleigh: Branson, Farrar, 1863. 140 p.

Johnnie and Kathleen Bratten describe the extent to which church groups and other volunteers helped them after their home was destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.

Richmond, VA: The Virginia Historical Society, 1980. 75-93 p.

Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1916. 265-275 p.

[Chicago, Ill.]: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, c1919. 92 p.

Economist David Breneman discusses his brief tenure with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1977. In this interview, Breneman describes his role in the establishment of federal criteria for school desegregation, focusing particularly on HEW's interactions with education officials in North Carolina.

Former executive director of the Southern Regional Council Leslie Dunbar (1961-1965) discusses his involvement in the civil rights movement, focusing on changes that occurred in the early 1960s. Dunbar describes the SRC as an organization dedicated to changing people's attitudes about race. He emphasizes the SRC's attempts to work with the federal government—particularly the Kennedy administration—and other civil rights organizations, especially in the Voters Education Program.

In this interview, Vivion Lenon Brewer explains how her awareness of racial disparities caused her to support school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. She discusses her leadership in pushing politicians to reopen the closed public schools during the 1958-1959 Little Rock school crisis.

St. Albans, Vt.: Printed by Harry Whitney, 1810. 204 p.

[Raleigh, N. C.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 4 p.

Adele Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and the League of Women Voters. In this interview, she describes how the suffrage movement unfolded in Virginia, discussing the successes as well as the obstacles suffragettes faced during their struggle.

9 pages, 9 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

3 pages, 4 page images.

Elizabeth Brooks was one of the leaders of the UNC Food Workers' Strike of 1969. As a new worker in the Lenoir Dining Hall, Brooks helped to organize the food workers with the help of Preston Dobbins and the Black Student Movement. This interview focuses on the first strike, which was sparked by the unexpected firing of one worker, low wages, and withheld back pay for overtime.

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no.1 (January 1922), 11-22. Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 11-22 p.

Washington, D. C.: Press of R. L. Pendleton, 1910. 48 p.

Stanford Raynold Brookshire, Charlotte's first four-term mayor, explains why Charlotte and Mecklenburg County failed to consolidate their city services in the early 1970s.

[Richmond?: s. n., 1863?]. 16 p.

3 pages, 4 page images.

[Raleigh?]: s. n., 1922. 87 p.

Saint Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1841. [iv], 76 p.

Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1853. 275 p.

S. l.: s. n., ?. 10 p.

Elizabeth Brown, a white teacher who taught at John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Alabama, describes desegregation and its legacies in her city.

Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Pub. Co., 1926. viii, 248, [2] p.

Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849. x, 11-92 p.

Manchester: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851. 69 p.

13 pages, 14 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

London: [W. M. Watts], 1855. ii, 250 p.

Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1856, c1855. 104 p.

Harriet Herring, University of North Carolina sociologist, recalls her efforts to study labor at North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the 20th Century.

Boston: Published by James Loring, 1832. 108 p.

Washington, D.C.: Hamilton Printing, 1924. 47 p.

Boston: John P. Jewett, 1855. 320 p.

New York: Thomas Hamilton; Boston: R.F. Wallcut, 1863. 288 p.

London: Partridge & Oakey, 1853. viii, 245, 12 p.

Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880. viii, 1-253, 2 p.

Boston: The Anti-slavery office, 1847. xi, [13]-110 p.

London: C. Gilpin, 1849. ix, 168 p.

London: Charles Gilpin, 1852. xxxii, 312 p.

New York: Redfield, 1857. 401 p.

3 pages, 4 page images.

York, Pa.: P. Anstadt & Sons, 1895. 176 p.

New York: Hunt Printing Company, 1921. 12 p.

Oxford, Ohio: s .n., 1918. 54 p.

3 pages, 3 page images.

New Bern, N.C.: Owen G. Dunn, Printer, [1912?]. 43 p.

S. l.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865. 8 p.

[United States]: United States Food Administration, [between 1914 and 1918].

Former Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers describes the accomplishments of his administration (1970-1975), the changing political conditions—along with the political strategy—that had allowed for his election, and his hopes for the future as he prepared to enter the United States Senate.

New York: The Century Co., 1918. xi, 54 p.

A northerner who followed his passion for justice south, David Burgess spent his life living his religious convictions through a devotion to economic and racial justice. Burgess recalls his involvement with some vanguard rights organizations, such as the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, a group Burgess believes laid the foundation for a civil rights movement motivated by Christian beliefs.

David Burgess discusses how his religious faith fused into his life work of social activism. In particular, he explains his involvement in labor organizing in the South.

4 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

8 pages, 8 page images.

4 pages, 5 page images.

2 pages, 4 page images.

Tracy L. H. Burnett finds financial success after the closing of the White Furniture Company.

South Carolinian Edith Mitchell Dabbs discusses her family history as well that of her husband's family, which owned the Rip Raps Plantation. In addition, she describes the work she and her husband, James McBride Dabbs, did in advocating for racial justice during the 1940s and 1950s, their evolving views about race and race relations, and her involvement with the United Church Women.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. 8 p.

[S.l.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865]. 8 p.

Thomas Burt, a journeyman worker, recalls a variety of jobs he took in and around Durham, NC, with a focus on his employment in a tobacco factory.

Boston: Ross Publishing Company, 1909. 97 p.

Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, c1910. 126 p.

Dorothy Royster Burwell describes her family history and remembers the devastating effect of "the water," in the form of a government-built lake, that wiped away her community of Sudan, Virginia.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1895. 209 p.

1 pages, 1 page images.

8 pages, 8 page images.

Durham, N.C.: Seeman Printery, 1916. 65 p.

Raleigh, N.C.: Barnes Bros., 1893. 10 p.

From The Journal of Negro History 2, no. 4 (October 1917), 393-410. Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1917. 393-410 p.

Hampton, Va.: Hampton Institute Press, 1908. 253 p.

Petersburg, VA: Printed by Edmund and Julius C. Ruffin, 1841. iv, 143, [1] p.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. xv, 280 p.

New York: R.M. McBride & Company, 1922, c1919. 368 p.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. ix, 448 p.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899, c1894. viii, 513 p.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. 303 p.

1 pages, 1 page images.

Edwin Caldwell recalls a lifetime of political organization and advocacy.

Raleigh: J. Gales & Sons, 1827. [1]-12 p.

5 pages, 5 page images.

Chapel Hill, [N.C.]: J.B. Neathery, 1860. 68 p.

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31 pages, 31 page images.

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4 pages, 4 page images.

New-York: G. Long, 1828. 232 p.

[Raleigh, N.C.]: [Thomas Henderson, Jr.], [1811]. 1 p.

1 pages, 2 page images.

Joseph Califano served as the Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1977 to 1979. He recalls the reasons for the University of North Carolina's opposition to H.E.W.'s desegregation criteria.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 119 p.

Oxford, N.C.: W. A. Davis; Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1881. 130 p.

8 pages, 8 page images.

Kenneth Norton remembers being a student at segregated Ada Jenkins School in Davidson, NC, in the 1930s.

Vennie Moore recalls her childhood in segregated Davidson, NC.

2 pages, 3 page images.

Philadelphia: The Author, 1861. vi, [8]-320 p.

Greensboro, N. C.: Sterling, Campbell, and Albright, 1862. 224 p.

A Farmer Responds to the Cane Creek Reservoir

Bob Scott, former governor of North Carolina and the state's community college system president, describes his tenure as governor and discusses North Carolina politics

Leroy Campbell describes his experiences as the principal of the all-black Unity School in Iredell County, NC.

Elizabeth Pearsall reflects on the role of her husband, Thomas Pearsall, in the North Carolina school desegregation plan. She also discusses her own efforts at fostering racial cooperation.

Richmond: Ayres & Wade, 1864. 48 p.

Elected in 1977 at the age of 1973, Isabella Cannon was the first female mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. In this interview, Cannon describes her involvement in the United Church of Christ, her support of and participation in the civil rights movement, and her advocacy of community revitalization and development. In addition, she recalls her major accomplishments as mayor and the challenges she faced in implementing her long-range comprehensive plan for the city.

Isabella Cannon was the first woman mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. Elected in 1977, at the age of 73, the "old lady who wore tennis shoes" was a staunch advocate for community growth and revitalization. During her tenure, she worked to push through the Long Range Comprehensive Plan, to reconcile tensions between the city and the police and fire departments, strengthen the relationship between the city and the state, and to revitalize the down town area.

Rochester: Strong & Dawson, Printers, 1842. 44 p.

Raleigh: Edwards, 1907. 11 p.

Charleston, [S.C.?]: Published by John Early, 1853. 40 p.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 244 p.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 51 p.

Charleston, S.C.: McCarter & Dawson, 1861, [c1835]. 154 p.

Henderson, Tenn.: [s.n.], 1898. 66 p.

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Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1905. 238 p.

Journalist Hodding Carter describes the changes wrought in Mississippi by the civil rights movement.

Jessie Lee Carter remembers life as a mill worker and mother in rural South Carolina.

Jimmy Carter, the governor of Georgia, discusses the growing influence of the Democratic Party in southern states and links it to distinctly southern trends like increased voter participation and the impact of the civil rights movement.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. 228 p.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. 246, [i] p.

Wetumpka, AL: Charles Yancey, 1845. iv, 248 p.

[Burlington, N.C.: s. n., 1918]. 1 p.

Aaron and Jenny Cavenaugh, long-time Duplin County, N.C., residents, lost their antiques business and turkey farm in the flooding that accompanied Hurricane Floyd.

Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, both over 80, express concern with the erosion of more values and discuss their frustrations with the government after Hurricane Floyd.

Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, both over 80, express concern with the erosion of more values and discuss their frustrations with the government after Hurricane Floyd.

New York: Color plates made and donated by Powers Engraving Co. ; Nation Press, Inc., [between 1914 and 1918].

Saint Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1841. [iv], 76 p.

3 pages, 4 page images.

London: [W. M. Watts], 1855. ii, 250 p.

Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1875. xiv, [17]-802, [4] p.

Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 271 p.

Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 14 p.

Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 40 p.

Columbia: Steam Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1864. 31 p.

Columbia, S. C.: Guardian Steam-power Press, 1863. 12 p.

S. l.: s. n., ?. 10 p.

Mobile: S.H. Goetzel, 1865. 48 p.

Mobile, Ala.: W. G. Clark, 1864. 150 p.

A black sharecropper's daughter discusses her difficult upbringing on the farm and the many stories of slavery on which she was raised.

Former Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford lauds the leadership of Anne Queen, director of the YMCA/YWCA at University of North Carolina. In addition, Sanford discusses his advocacy of the civil rights movement and argues that the University of North Carolina was a particularly powerful force for social change during the mid-twentieth century.

Former President of the University of North Carolina, William C. Friday, describes his working relationship with Anne Queen, who was director of the campus YWCA and YMCA-YWCA from the late 1950s into the 1970s. Friday discusses Queen's relationship with students and her leadership qualities.

White student remembers fear and violence during desegregation in Chapel Hill.

Steve Cherry describes desegregation from the perspective of a coach and a principal in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Knoxville, Tenn.: S. B. Newman & Co., Printers & Book Binders, 1902. 129, [1] p.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. xxii, 424 p.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. ix, 294 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 229 p.

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. [vii]-xix, 141, [2] p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. 294 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. vi, 329 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. 323 p.

Boston: Published for the Author, 1861, c1860. 306 p.

Chicago; New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899. 303 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge [Mass.]: The Riverside Press, 1894. 313 p.

Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. 416 p.

Boston: Forbes, 1917.

[Boston?]: American Red Cross, 1919.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 231, [viii] p.

Adele Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and the League of Women Voters. In this interview, she describes how the suffrage movement unfolded in Virginia, discussing the successes as well as the obstacles suffragettes faced during their struggle.

Virginia: s. n., 1854?. 12 p.

Rebecca Clark describes the economic impact of Jim Crow: denying African Americans desirable jobs, forcing them into low-paying jobs, and humiliating African American consumers.

Septima Clark served as a board member and education director for the Highlander Folk School and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1950s and 1960s. She links her activism to the memory of her parents' struggles with poverty and racism. She also describes how community relations functioned within the NAACP and SCLC. Her plans for increasing community involvement, protecting the labor rights of black teachers, and educating black voters were often ignored because she was female. She discusses why these types of gender roles persisted in the SCLC and the role of leaders in the black community.

Septima Clark describes the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the late 1950s to mid 1960s, especially the community education programs that she directed for the SCLC and the Highlander Folk School. She rejoices in the new voters and civil rights legislation that resulted from their work but noticed drawbacks arising from prejudice against female leaders, disdain for the poor, and clashes in leadership styles.

[S. l.: s. n., 1913?]. 24 p.

Raleigh: Commercial Printing Co., [1917]. 16 p.

Raleigh: Raleigh News Steam Job Print, 1877. ii, 141 p.

From St. Augustine's Record, Vol. 25, no. 5. Raleigh, N. C.: [St. Augustine's School?], 1920. 8 p.

Charlotte, N. C.: Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, 1924. 20 p.

[St. Paul]: [West Pub. Co.], [1915?]. 4 p.

Augusta, Ga.: Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1862. 191 p.

Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845. 104 p.

Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1846. 144 p.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905, c1904. xxii, 386 p.

Activist and politician Eva Clayton describes her years of service in and out of politics in Warren County, NC.

Josephine Dobbs Clement talks about her various civic roles, including her activity as a member of the League of Women Voters, the Durham City-County Charter Commission, the Board of Education, and the Board of County Commissioners. She also discusses her efforts on behalf of social justice and her views on race, gender, and environmental issues.

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Steubenville, Ohio: Herald, 1908. 67 p.

Josephine and William Clement were both born and raised in the South. Both describe their family backgrounds and education. Josephine focuses on race relations in Atlanta and her father's radical politics, while William describes his participation with the Masons and his work with North Carolina Mutual.

Birmingham lawyer and politician U.W. Clemon describes his place in Birmingham politics and the city's continuing problems with race.

[United States]: United States Food Administration, [between 1914 and 1918].

Spartanburg, S.C.: Band & White Publishers, 1916. 142 p.

Bill Clinton discusses his victory in an Arkansas Democratic Congressional primary and his upcoming race against the incumbent Republican Congressman.

Former mechanic and streetcar foreman Loy Connelly Cloniger recalls the 1919 Charlotte Streetcar Strike by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Though five strikers were killed, the strikers soon returned to work without the raise they demanded.

From University of North Carolina Magazine, Vol. 48, no. 3 (December, 1917). [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: [Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina], 1917. [179-183] p.

Salter and Doris Cochran reflect on the many challenges that faced them in their efforts to desegregate medical care and public education in Weldon, North Carolina.

Ruth Dial Woods describes growing up as a Lumbee Indian in Robeson County, North Carolina, in the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1960s, Woods participated in the civil rights and women's liberation movements. In 1985, she was appointed to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, where she worked to promote equality for minority students.

Rusling Wood: Mural Advertising, [between 1914 and 1918].

Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co., 1880. viii, 3-732 p.

Louise Cole, a devout Mormon, discusses her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland, and her education in microbiology and biochemistry at Brigham Young University in the mid-1960s. In 1977, Cole settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her family. In the late 1980s, she became actively involved in Putting Children First, a group concerned with issues in school curriculum such as multiculturalism and sex education and its impact on their children.

Robert Cole recalls a violent strike in a textile mill located near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Former attorney general and governor of Mississippi James P. Coleman discusses his role in southern politics from the 1930s through the 1960s. Coleman focuses specifically on the issue of racial segregation and its impact on Mississippi politics.

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Richmond: Printed by James E. Goode, 1863. 28 p.

Columbia, S.C.: Steam Power-press of F.G. DeFontaine, 1864. 31 p.

New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Knickerbocker Press, 1889. 78 p.

Oxford, N.C.: [The Asylum, 1912?]. 19 p.

Oxford, N.C.: The Asylum, 1910. 16 p.

Oxford, N.C.: The Asylum, 1911. 15 p.

Oxford, N.C.: The Asylum, 1909. 11 p.

[Oxford? N.C.]: The Asylum, 1890. 1 p.

Oxford, N.C.: Public Ledger Print, 1900. 14 p.

[Oxford, N.C.]: [The Orphanage], 1939. [8] p.

[Oxford, N.C.]: [Colored Orphanage of North Carolina], [1940]. 79 p.

Raleigh, N.C.:: W.L. Pomeroy. Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1859. 2 p., [ix]-xii, [13]-120 p.

S. l.: The Commission, 1921. 16 p.

Raleigh, N.C.: [State of N.C.], [1937]. 62 p.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Office of God's Revivalist, c1903. 102 p.

Macon: Printed by Burke, Boykin & Company, 1863. 24 p.

Bonnie Cone describes her career as an educator in South Carolina and North Carolina during the first half of the twentieth century. After teaching at Duke University during World War II, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and became one of the primary personages behind the successful establishment of a university in that city.

Mill owner Caesar Cone reflects on the textile industry and what he views as the pernicious influence of government in business and society.

[Richmond?: s. n., 1865?]. 1 p.

[Montgomery?: s.n., 1861]. 1 p.

Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press by Tyler, Wise, Allegre & Smith, 1861. 35-159 p.

Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press by Tyler, Wise, Allegre & Smith, 1861. 119 p.

Columbia: Evans and Cogswell, 1864. 329 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1865]. 8 p.

Richmond: James E. Goode, Senate Printer, 1864. 35 p.

Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861. 32 p.

Richmond: R. M. Smith, 1864. viii, 171-252, xxiii, 7 p.

Richmond: R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1862. 70 p.

Richmond: R. M. Smith, 1864. viii, 253-288, xii, 13-18 p.

Richmond: R. M. Smith, 1862. vi, 57-92, ix, [5] p.

Richmond: R. M. Smith, 1863. viii, 93-170, xx, 5-11 p.

Richmond: R. M. Smith, Printed to Congress, 1864. xv, 411, xlviii p.

Charleston: Steam-Power presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 16 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1864]. 44 p.

S. l.: s. n., 1864. 1 p.

S. l.: s. n., 1861. 1 p.

Petersburg, [Va.: s.n.], 1864. 16 p.

Richmond: s. n., 1864. 3 p.

Richmond, VA.: s. n., 1864. 1 p.

Columbia, S. C.: s. n., 1864. 19 p.

Richmond: s. n., 1864. 20 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1864]. 8 p.

[Richmond?: The Congress, 1863?]. 1 p.

[Richmond, Va.: The House, 1865]. 1 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 3 p.

[Richmond]: [The House], [1863]. 8 p.

[Richmond, Va?: House of Representatives?, 1862?]. 4 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1864]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1864]. 6 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1864]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 4 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 2 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1863]. 3 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1862]. 3 p.

[Richmond, Va.]: The House, [1865]. 1 p.

[Richmond: The Congress], 1865. 17 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1863]. 7 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1864]. 2 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1864]. 8 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1864]. 6 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1864]. 4 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1865]. 1 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1864]. 5 p.

[Richmond: s.n., 1865]. 1 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1864]. 12 p.

[Richmond: The Senate, 1864]. 9 p.

Richmond: Printed at the Sentinel Office, 1863. 55 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1864]. 14 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1865]. 8 p.

[Richmond: The Department, 1862]. 18 p.

Richmond: The Department, 1863. 15 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1864. 2 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1864. 13 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1861. 7 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1863. 29 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1863. 78 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1864. 56 p.

Richmond: The Dept., 1865. 4 p.

Richmond, Va.: Printed by Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1861. 23 p.

[Richmond: The House, 1864]. 7 p.

[Richmond: Surgeon General's Office, 1864]. 1 p.

[Richmond, Va.: Surgeon General's Office, 1862]. 22 p.

[Richmond?: s.n., between 1861 and 1865]. 4 p.

Richmond: Surgeon General's Office, 1864. 1 p.

[Richmond?]: s.n., 1863. 5 p.

Richmond, Va.: [The House], 1865. 2 p.

[Richmond, Va.: The House, 1864]. 4 p.

[Richmond, Va.: s. n., 1863]. 7 p.

[Richmond, Va.: s. n., 1863]. 6 p.

Richmond, Va.: [s. n.], 1864. 7 p.

Richmond, Va.: [s. n.], 1865. 3 p.

Richmond: Ritchie & Dunnavant, Printers, 1862. 58 p.

[S. l.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 15 p.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1908. 24 p.

Hog farmer James Connor describes the impact of Hurricane Floyd and the details of his business, and emphasizes his concern for the environment.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. xxiii, 369, [1] p.

Raleigh: E. M. Uzzell & Co., State Printer, 1913. 1053 p.

Raleigh, [N.C.]: Office of the State Supt. of Public Instruction, [1906]. 60 p.

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1863. 19 p.

Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish & Co., Steam Printers and Binders, 1861. 152 p.

[Wilmington, N.C.]: Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, [1920]. 140 p.

Ernest Seeman offers a critical assessment of life in Durham, North Carolina, during the late nineteenth century. Seeman spent his early career as a printer, first as his father's apprentice and later as sole proprietor of the Seeman Printery, and he discusses interactions between his family and the Duke family. In addition, Seeman explains his increasing radicalization as head of the Duke Press (1925 to 1934) and briefly discusses his decision to become a writer in later years.

Southern novelist Harriette Arnow discusses what it was like to grow up in Kentucky during the 1910s and 1920s. The teacher turned writer focuses especially on her family relationships, her experiences in school and in teaching, her goals as a writer, and her views on marriage and family.

Clyde Cook describes life and work for African Americans in Badin, North Carolina. Discussing such topics as school segregation, racial hierarchies in the workplace, and the lack of job opportunities, Cook offers insight into social and economic inequalities in a Southern working community.

Cynthia Sykes Cook recalls the closing of the White Furniture Factory in Mebane, NC.

Martha Cooley describes her childhood in rural Granville County, NC, during the early part of the 20th century.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1908. xlvii, 531 p.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1908. vii, [532]-1077 p.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, State Printers and Binders, 1915. lii, 846 p.

Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. iii, 304 p.

New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1887. xiv, 337 p.

[United States]: U.S. Food Administration, [between 1914 and1918].

[United States]: U.S. Food Administration, [between 1914 and 1918].

[United States]: U.S. Food Administration, [between 1914 and 1918].

Adetola Hassan, a British citizen of Nigerian descent, was a freshman student at Duke University at the time of this interview in 2001. In the interview, she discusses her Mormon faith, focusing on tensions surrounding Mormonism in the South as well as issues related to gender and race within the Church.

Margaret Edwards grew up in a large, African American sharecropping family in Ayden, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. She eventually settled in the Raleigh area. Following her experiences with the Baptist and Pentecostal Holiness churches, she converted to Mormonism in 1998. In this interview, she discusses her role within the Mormon Church as an African American woman; the intersections between race, gender, and religion; and the attitude of other denominations toward Mormonism.

Austin, Tex.: Eugene von Boeckmann, 1893. 206 p.

Philadelphia, Pa.: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1913. 191 p.

Philadelphia, Pa.: A. M. E. Book Concern, c1919. 375 p.

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Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1925. [3], 214 p.

Thurman Couch describes social, cultural, and economic splintering in African American networks in Chapel Hill following integration.

[United States]: [ U.S. Marines?], [between 1914 and 1918].

Terry Graham, Mooresville, NC, resident and taxi service operator, describes his changing town and its relationship to Charlotte. He also discusses the desegregation of the local schools.

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Clyda Coward, joined by her sister Debra and other family members, reflects on her childhood in rural North Carolina and the state of the small community of Tick Bite in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.

Andy K. Foley lost his job when the White Furniture Company closed, but he lost friendships and a playful work atmosphere as well. In this interview he recalls the fun he had on the job and laments the factory's closing.

Ivey C. Jones, who spent sixteen years working at the White Furniture Factory in Mebane, NC, describes the effects of the plant's takeover and closing.

Tracy L. H. Burnett finds financial success after the closing of the White Furniture Company.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. viii, 109 p.

Raleigh: Book and Job Office Steam Power Press Print, 1864. 16 p.

Philadelphia: The Editors, 1859. 15 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885, c1884. 322 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, [1885]. 308 p.

London: William Tweedie, 1860. iv, 111 p.

Richmond: West & Johnston, 1864. 121 p.

Sam Crawford describes the formation and activities of the Cane Creek Conservation Authority in their battle against the Orange Water and Sewer Authority's effort to build a reservoir on Cane Creek in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He focuses on the grassroots nature of the CCCA's actions and offers commentary about what he views as the exploitative nature of land development.

Willie Mae Crews, the daughter of a sharecropper, was a teacher at Hayes High School, an African American school in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1960s and 1970s. Crews describes Hayes as an excellent segregated school that did not benefit from the desegregation that began during the 1970-1971 school year.

[United States]: [Red Cross], [between 1914 and 1918].

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no. 1 (January 1922), 64-107. Lancaster, Pa.; Washington D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 64-107 p.

Syracuse, N.Y.: Published by D. S. Kinney, Wesleyan Methodist Publishing House, 1875. iv, 8-312 p.

[Raleigh, N. C.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 16 p.

Raleigh [N.C.]: Printed at the Office of the Raleigh Register, 1861. 16 p.

Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1912. 238 p.

London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Hatchard and Co., 1825. 8 p.

A white teacher recalls a harmonious racial atmosphere at West Charlotte High School during his short stint there in the 1970s.

Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1901. 16 p.

The Liberator, 10 January 1840: 1 p.

[Raleigh]: [Edwards & Broughton], 1936. 544 p.

South Carolinian Edith Mitchell Dabbs discusses her family history as well that of her husband's family, which owned the Rip Raps Plantation. In addition, she describes the work she and her husband, James McBride Dabbs, did in advocating for racial justice during the 1940s and 1950s, their evolving views about race and race relations, and her involvement with the United Church Women.

Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Committee of Publication of the Confederate States, 1863. 32 p.

Virginius Dabney traces his involvement with the school desegregation crisis in post-1954 Virginia. Dabney's political and social beliefs about integration appeared in the newspaper he edited, the Richmond Times Dispatch. This interview spans the breadth of his career from the 1920s to the 1970s.

New-Haven: T. and S. Green, 1790. 19, [1] p.

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Junior Johnson became a stock car racer during the early 1950s and participated in the exponential growth of that industry. He describes growing up in Wilkes County, North Carolina, his role in the evolution of NASCAR, and his business endeavors in poultry farming.

In this interview, Jonathan Daniels discusses his father's role as a newspaper editor and Secretary of the Navy, as well as his father's racial and religious views. Daniels also describes how race and the University of North Carolina shaped his own life.

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, [1858]. [14], 21-203 p.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. [i-iii], [1-6], 7-201, 1-3 p.

Richard Barentine, CEO of the International Home Furnishing Marketing Association, describes his leadership style and his contributions to Winston-Salem's furniture industry.

Philadelphia: Issued by Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, [between 1914 and 1918].

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publishing House, 1925. 32 p.

Betty and Lloyd Davidson discuss their experiences working in textile mills before the second world war and reflect on how these mills changed over the decades.

Born into a long line of Texas politicians, Maury Maverick, Jr., served in the Texas House of Representatives for six years during the 1950s, and as a lawyer from the 1960s into the 1970s. Maverick speaks at length about his radical political leanings and the evolution of liberalism in Texas.

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Ashley Davis was a member of the Black Student Movement (BSM) at the University of North Carolina during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this interview, he describes how the BSM supported the striking food workers at UNC in 1969.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897, c1896. 276 p.

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864. 157 p.

2 pages, 2 page images.

Segregation and integration caused difficulties in the life of this African American student.

Baltimore: J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859. 90 p.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904. 233 p.

Enthusiasm for West Charlotte High School clashes with uncertainty about the efficacy of integration.

Camden, So. Ca.: [s.n.], 1861. 1 p.

Former Vice-President of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina, Raymond Dawson, discusses tensions surrounding federal desegregation orders in North Carolina during the 1970s. Because of North Carolina's comparatively large number of historically black colleges, the state became a testing ground for the federal government to explore ways to integrate public education while preserving historically black colleges.

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, 1913. xix, 439 p.

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[Richmond: The Confederate House of Representatives, 1865]. 20 p.

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. 323 p.

New York: Duffield & Company, 1909. 123 p.

New York: Sackett & Wilhelms, [1917?].

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Andrew Young, the first African American congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction, describes his involvement in the early civil rights movements. After dedicating much time and energy to voter registration drives as a minister in Georgia, Young later entered politics and was first elected to Congress in 1972. Young cites the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the decisive turning point in race relations and argues that it was this access to political power that allowed African Americans to bring to fruition other advances they had made in education, business, and social standing.

Bert Nettles discusses the state of politics and the Republican Party in Alabama in the 1970s. He discusses, among other things, desegregation, the need for honesty and ethics reform in the political system, and the effect of Watergate on the Republican Party.

Claude Pepper reflects on his political career and the rise of conservatism in Florida.

David Pryor discusses the new political order in Arkansas just months before he won the state's governorship.

Political journalist Ferrel Guillory describes the state of party politics in North Carolina.

A two-term member of the Texas state legislature, France Farenthold describes reform efforts in Texas politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, Farenthold talks about what she perceives as a decline in overt racism during the post-World War II years, the role of women, and other demographic and sociocultural changes in Texas politics.

Former Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers describes the accomplishments of his administration (1970-1975), the changing political conditions—along with the political strategy—that had allowed for his election, and his hopes for the future as he prepared to enter the United States Senate.

Longstanding Alabama governor and former presidential candidate George Wallace discusses Alabama politics and racial issues in the United States.

Journalist Hodding Carter describes the changes wrought in Mississippi by the civil rights movement.

Howell Heflin, who sat on the Alabama State Supreme Court in the 1970s before a two-decade tenure in the US Senate, discusses the post-segregation Alabama judiciary.

Jimmy Carter, the governor of Georgia, discusses the growing influence of the Democratic Party in southern states and links it to distinctly southern trends like increased voter participation and the impact of the civil rights movement.

John Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. In this interview, rich with vivid detail, Lewis outlines his role within the civil rights movement through his participation in the sit-in movement of 1960 in Nashville, the Freedom Rides through Alabama and Mississippi in 1961, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, the voter registration drive (primarily in Selma, Alabama) in 1965, and the shift towards the politics of black power within SNCC by 1966. Throughout the interview, he situates the activities of SNCC within the civil rights movement more broadly, focusing on issues of leadership, religion, and politics.

Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs discusses changes in Louisiana politics dating back to the 1930s, when she participated in the People's League, and through the 1950s and 1960s, which saw the gradual elimination of the "race issue" in politics. Boggs offers her thoughts on the nature of the Louisiana congressional delegation, the role of the South in Congress, and the impact of the women's movement on Congress during the 1970s.

New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu describes the changing political landscape of the Crescent City following World War II through his tenure as mayor in the 1970s. Stressing the importance of voter registration and the appointment of African American public officials, Landrieu emphasizes the role of political leadership in effecting real change in New Orleans race relations during the long years of the civil rights movement.

Nancy Palm was the chairperson of the Republican Party in Harris County, Texas, during the 1960s and 1970s. She describes her own transition from liberal to conservative in the 1950s; the importance of political organization to the evolution of the Republican Party in Texas; her perception of women's liberation, and the role of such politicians as John G. Tower, John Connally, George Bush, and Richard Nixon in the rise of Southern conservatism

Orval Faubus defends his legacy.

Florida governor Reubin Askew describes his approach to politics and comments on the political character of Florida and the American South.

Rita Jackson Samuels, Coordinator of the Governor's Council on Human Relations in Atlanta, GA, describes her role in expanding the presence of African Americans in Georgia's state government.

Terry Sanford recalls his political career as a Democratic governor of North Carolina. He explains the impact of race on Southern politics and the realignment of political parties in the late twentieth century. Sanford attempts to reject the image of Southern exceptionalism.

Bill Clinton discusses his victory in an Arkansas Democratic Congressional primary and his upcoming race against the incumbent Republican Congressman.

Hoy Deal recalls his youth and young manhood in rural North Carolina, including stints at lumber mills and glove factories, two industries that, along with textiles, were a vital part of the state's economy in early 20th century.

A pioneer in women's education and women in law, Kathrine Robinson Everett describes what it was like to attend law school in the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, Everett practiced law in Cumberland County and worked to register women to vote after the passage of the 19th Amendment. Following her marriage in 1928, Everett worked alongside her husband, supporting his legal and political career; became involved in local politics in Durham; and worked with various women's organizations.

Kathrine Robinson Everett recalls a career as a trailblazing female lawyer and women’s rights activist.

[Raleigh, N.C.: s. n., between 1861 and 1865]. 8 p.

Loistine Defreece, the first black female principal in Lumberton, NC, discusses her job and reflects briefly on some of the challenges race poses to modern educators.

Founder of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center Miriam Slifkin discusses the issue of rape within the context of the local women's movement in Orange County, North Carolina. The founding of the OCRCC was illustrative of growing tensions between feminism and anti-feminism in Orange County. The issue of rape is also situated more broadly within the context of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, especially in relationship to legal changes, the formation of women's studies curriculum, and the relationship between local and national aspects of the movement.

St. Louis, MO.: J. T. Smith, [189-?]. viii, 9-64 p.

Lemuel Delany, Jr., grew up in segregated Raleigh, North Carolina, during the 1920s and 1930s before moving to Harlem in New York City. In this interview, Delany discusses race relations in the South and in the North, offers his reaction to his aunts' book Having Our Say , outlines his family's accomplishments, and explains his disapproval of some of the actions of the NAACP and his disappointment in the impact of desegregation on African American institutions.

[Raleigh?]: [s. n.], [1898?]. 24 p.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1898. 200 p.

Raleigh: E. M. Uzzell, [1906]. 182 p.

[Raleigh?]: [Democratic-Conservative Party?, between 1870 and 1874]. 10 p.

Carrie Lee Gerringer describes what it was like to work in the textile mills in Bynum, North Carolina, from the 1920s into the post-World War II years. She discusses growing up in a working class family, focusing especially on balancing family and work. Married at sixteen, Gerringer worked in the textile mills throughout her adult life, struggling to make ends meet while raising six children.

Raleigh, N.C.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865. 8 p.

Lawyer William Patrick Murphy describes his 1950s battle against segregation and his struggle to keep his job after his beliefs became public in Oxford, Mississippi. Murphy, who taught constitutional law at the University of Mississippi, used journal articles and his classroom to speak out in favor of the Brown decision. He recalls this tumultuous time and downplays his accomplishments in this interview.

Naomi Elizabeth Morris grew up in Wilson, North Carolina, during the 1920s and 1930s. After graduating with a degree in English from Atlantic Christian College in the early 1940s, she worked as a legal secretary before deciding to go to law school at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. One of the only women to graduate with her class in 1955, Morris practiced law for twelve years before becoming one of the original judges to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

New York: T.F. Moore Co., [1917].

Joe Herzenberg, a Chapel Hill politico, voices his support for the Cane Creek reservoir project.

Florence Dillahunt describes growing up on a small tobacco farm near Grifton, North Carolina, during the 1930s and 1940s. Dillahunt's family were victims of the extensive flooding that Hurricane Floyd brought to eastern North Carolina in 1999. She describes the devastating impact on their farm and their personal lives.

Hill Baker recalls his long working life as a railroad worker and a factory employee in Conover, NC.

Flake and Nellie Meyers describe what it was like to live and work in and around Conover, North Carolina, during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a worker in various furniture companies and as the foreman at the Southern Desk Company, Flake Meyers describes in vivid detail the various kinds of skills involved in furniture making, the role of machinery in the industry, and workplace relationships. Nellie Meyers similarly describes the kinds of family labor systems and social customs that shaped their lives.

Frank Gilbert recalls his laboring life in and around Conover, NC.

Gladys Florene Harris discusses the difficulty of supporting herself and her husband for four decades.

Murphy Yomen Sigmon reflects on a working life, most of which he spent in a cotton mill in Hickory, NC.

Oscar Dearmont Baker spent his childhood and most of his adult life in Conover, North Carolina. In this interview, he describes his experiences working in the furniture and hosiery industries, paying particular attention to his time spent at Conover Furniture. He also describes broader changes within the city of Conover.

Roy Ham tells stories and sings his way through an interview that reveals more about Ham the character than it does about the industrializing South.

New Orleans, La.: Louisiana Printing Co. Press, [1911?]. v, 92 p.

Raleigh: Seaton Gales, Printer for the State, 1848. 48 p.

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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. 374 p.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. xiii, 469 p.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. [xvi], 331 p.

Raleigh: Capital Printing Co., 1934. 26 p.

Geddes Dodson worked as a textile mill employee for sixty years. During that time, he progressed through the factory's employment hierarchy, seeing many different aspects of life within the mills. He often focuses on issues involving masculinity and unionism.

Ila Hartsell Dodson talks about working in a South Carolina textile mill.

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New York: The Viking Press, 1927. [vii], 56 p.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington. London: Low and Company., 1853. 174-239 p.

Boston: De Wolfe & Fiske Co., 1892. 752 p.

Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., 1881. 516 p.

New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. xxxii, 33-464, [4] p.

Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. xvi, 125 p.

London: Edwards and Co., 1852. xi, 222 p.

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8 pages, 8 page images.

Salisbury, N.C.: Printed at the Watchman Office, 1861. 16 p.

Boston: J. P. Jewett and Company, 1856. xii, 387, [4] p.

Daniel Okun, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel at the time of the interview, lays out the case for creating the Cane Creek reservoir.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, c1895. xii, 208 p.

Brooklyn: The Author, 1898. 62 p.

Charlotte: Albert Y. Drummond, Winston-Salem: Scoggin Printing Company, Inc., c1924. 148 p.

Carlee Drye was a founding member of the local union for aluminum workers in Badin, North Carolina, which later merged with the Steel Workers of America. Drye served as president of the local in the 1950s, during which time he worked actively to change policies of racial discrimination in the Alcoa aluminum plant. He retired from the plant and from the union in 1970s. He speculates about relations between the union, the community, and Alcoa following his retirement.

Atlanta, Ga.: The Atlanta University Press, 1907. 184 p.

Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1914. 140 p.

Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903. viii, 212 p.

Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs, 1907. 222 p.

Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1898. 66 p.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903. x, 265 p.

From World's Work, vol. 23 (Jan. 1912). [S. l.: s. n., 1912]. [334-338] p.

George F. Dugger, Sr., describes his family history and experiences as the plant lawyer during the 1929 Elizabethton Rayon Plant Strike.

Daniel Duke was born in Palmetto, Georgia, in 1915 and became a lawyer during the 1930s. The solicitor general of Fulton County in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Duke presided over a case against the Ku Klux Klan and their use of flogging as a terror tactic against both African Americans and whites. In the mid-1940s, he became the assistant attorney general of Georgia.

Former executive director of the Southern Regional Council Leslie Dunbar (1961-1965) discusses his involvement in the civil rights movement, focusing on changes that occurred in the early 1960s. Dunbar describes the SRC as an organization dedicated to changing people's attitudes about race. He emphasizes the SRC's attempts to work with the federal government—particularly the Kennedy administration—and other civil rights organizations, especially in the Voters Education Program.

Atlanta, Ga.: The Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1906. 299 p.

In this interview, I. Beverly Lake Sr. reflects on his long career as a teacher, attorney, and judge. He counsels white political unity as a means to stem racial integration.

[United States]: United States Food Administration, 1917.

Richmond: Ayres & Wade, 1864. 48 p.

Washington, D.C.: Emily Thornton Charles & Co., 1881. 199 p.

Eula Durham and her husband Vernon recall their experiences as mill workers in Bynum, NC.

Eula and Vernon Durham Eula and Vernon Durham talk about integration and attempts at unionization at the Bynum textile plant.

Flossie Moore Durham fondly remembers mill work, the mill community, and her long life as a wife and mother in Bynum, NC.

Flossie Moore Durham discusses her family's career in the Bynum textile mill.

Frank Durham discusses how his family first came to work in the mills and describes other people they got to know there. He describes the inner workings of the mill, the ways management negotiated labor complaints with the employees, the social structure of the mill village, and the commonalities of mill town life.

Walter Durham discusses coming of age during the 1950s and 1960s in Orange County, North Carolina. Walter Durham focuses especially on the process of school integration as it occurred in the merging of the all black Lincoln High School and the newly integrated Chapel Hill High School. According to Durham, this was a tense process in which many of the school traditions he fondly remembers from his days at Lincoln were lost in the transition to integrated schools.

Raleigh: E.M. Uzzell & Co., printers, [1913?]. 1 p.

Civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr describes her involvement in the nascent civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

Virginia Foster Durr discusses her early life and how she became aware of the social justice problems plaguing twentieth-century America. In this part of a multi-part interview, Durr describes her life on the plantation when she was a child; race issues in Birmingham, where she grew up; and how her views began to change when she left Birmingham to attend Wellesley College.

In this fast-paced 1975 interview, Virginia Foster Durr and her husband Clifford banter back and forth as Clifford reminds Virginia of stories, names and significant events throughout the conversation. The interview begins where the previous one had left off, with Virginia's growing awareness of social problems in the South, and continues through 1948. The couple recount their move to Washington, D.C., and Virginia's disaffection with social society and her transition to political action.

John Raymond Shute, Jr. looks back on a century of growth in Union County, NC. For years active in politics there, he shares his considerable knowledge about the agricultural and industrial development in the area.

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New York: Charles Scribner, 1856. 2 p.

[United States]: United States Food Administration, [between 1914 and 1918].

George and Tessie Dyer discuss their jobs in Charlotte cotton mills and their lives outside of work. They describe their childhood and the work their parents and grandparents did. They recall the parties and social events that their friends participated in after work. The interview ends with their observations about local union activity.

Manchester, VT: s. n., 1869. 26 p.

In this interview, Jonathan Daniels discusses his father's role as a newspaper editor and Secretary of the Navy, as well as his father's racial and religious views. Daniels also describes how race and the University of North Carolina shaped his own life.

Philadelphia; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912. xxvi, 496 p.

Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894. 161 p.

Clay East was a founding member of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. In this interview, he describes life in Tyronza, Arkansas, during the 1920s and 1930s; his conversion to socialism; his observation of the problems of tenant farmers and sharecroppers; and his role in the formation of the union during the early 1930s.

Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, both over 80, express concern with the erosion of more values and discuss their frustrations with the government after Hurricane Floyd.

Earl and Mattie Bell Cavanaugh, both over 80, express concern with the erosion of more values and discuss their frustrations with the government after Hurricane Floyd.

Kinston, N.C.: Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, [1924?]. 49 p.

Kinston: Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, [1925?]. 50, [2] p.

Goldsboro, N.C.: The Asylum, 1885. 24 p.

Sisters Mattie Shoemaker and Mildred Shoemaker Edmonds discuss their experiences at a textile mill in Burlington, NC.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 139 p.

London: Edwards and Co., 1852. xi, 222 p.

[Raleigh, N.C.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865]. 8 p.

Margaret Edwards grew up in a large, African American sharecropping family in Ayden, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. She eventually settled in the Raleigh area. Following her experiences with the Baptist and Pentecostal Holiness churches, she converted to Mormonism in 1998. In this interview, she discusses her role within the Mormon Church as an African American woman; the intersections between race, gender, and religion; and the attitude of other denominations toward Mormonism.

London: Kensit, 1891. 176 p.

Boston: The Cornhill Company, c1918. xvii, 143 p.

Noted historian C. Vann Woodward reflects on race relations in the American South.

Calvin and Elizabeth Kytle were both born and raised in the South. After World War II, they spent several years in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Ohio. The Kytles held liberal views on race issues and supported civil rights. Here, they describe their perceptions of race problems and their thoughts on the actions of various leaders and politicians, ranging from pro-segregationists to racial moderates to civil rights activists.

Charles Jones led the First Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill as pastor in the late 1940s. He describes his education and ministry in this interview and the controversies during his time at the church. The regional presbytery disapproved of Jones's active support of the Freedom Riders, black attendance in the church, and his failure to read the Article of Faith during services. He describes how he was expelled from the church despite the support of some UNC students and faculty. At the end of the interview, he discusses his views on why "separate but equal" failed and whether people missed an opportunity to change race relations between 1945 and 1950.

Daniel Duke was born in Palmetto, Georgia, in 1915 and became a lawyer during the 1930s. The solicitor general of Fulton County in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Duke presided over a case against the Ku Klux Klan and their use of flogging as a terror tactic against both African Americans and whites. In the mid-1940s, he became the assistant attorney general of Georgia.

Sociologist Guy B. Johnson describes his path to sociology and recalls his participation in the Southern Regional Council in the 1940s.

Harold Fleming recounts how he became involved with the Southern Regional Council and the kinds of criticisms he faced for opposing racism in the 1940s and 1950s. He especially remembers many Communist trials designed to scare racial progressives and how many limited their involvement in organizations like the S.R.C. for fear of losing their jobs. Fleming compares the leadership styles of those he encountered in the organization and mentions that he was motivated by frustration with the Jim Crow system and its consequences for the South.

Georgia politician Herman Talmadge reflects on race in southern politics and the intrusive process of desegregation.

Sociologist Hylan Lewis describes his experiences with race in the American South in the post-World War II period.

Former attorney general and governor of Mississippi James P. Coleman discusses his role in southern politics from the 1930s through the 1960s. Coleman focuses specifically on the issue of racial segregation and its impact on Mississippi politics.

John Hope Franklin remembers life as a student in the segregated South.

John Ivey received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944. He and his wife, Melville Corbett Ivey, describe their interaction with such leading figures as Howard Odum, Rupert Vance, and Frank Porter Graham. After a brief sojourn working for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Ivey became the director of the Southern Regional Education Board, where he advocated for the desegregation of public schools in the South.

Lyman Johnson traces his lifelong pursuit of racial equality through his father's rejection of racial hierarchies, his experiences as an educated black Navy solder, his observations of racial violence, and his efforts to get equal pay and union representation for Louisville teachers.

Civil rights leader Modjeska Simkins discusses race and civil rights before World War II.

Sid McMath was the governor of Arkansas from 1949 to 1953. A staunch liberal Democrat, McMath advocated for the inclusion of African Americans in the Democratic party and in higher education, challenged the patriarchal control of the power companies over the state, and improved infrastructure. Here, he describes his perception of the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948 and his belief that federal intervention was necessary to end Jim Crow segregation in the South.

Veteran activist Stetson Kennedy describes his desire to strike down segregation in the American South and some of the ways he translated this impulse into action.

Civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr describes her involvement in the nascent civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

African American journalist William Gordon describes growing up in the rural South in the 1920s and 1930s. Following his education at LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tennessee, and his service in the army during World War II, Gordon attended graduate school and became a journalist. He explains his relationship with civil rights advocates such as Ralph McGill and Herman Talmadge, and describes his perspective on changing race relations and the fall of Jim Crow segregation.

New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874. 260 p.

Washington, Ia.: Journal Print, 1912. [45] p.

Providence, R. I.: B.T. Albro, 1838. 128 p.

Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company; Old Corner Bookstore, 1885. 123 p.

Philadelphia: Tract Assoc. of Friends, 1889. 16 p.

Philadelphia: Collins, 1863. 19 p.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1898. 222 p.

[Savannah?: s. n., 1862]. 4 p.

Savannah, Ga.: Power Press of George M. Nichols, 1863. 26 p.

Columbia, S.C.: Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1864. 28 p.

Savannah: Steam Power Press of John M. Cooper, 1862. 18 p.

Savannah: Power Press of John M. Cooper, 1862. 23 p.

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1863. 24 p.

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1864. 18 p.

45 p.

Raleigh: "Standard" Office Print, 1860. 15 p.

George Elmore discusses a life that took him from farm labor to mill management in rural North Carolina.

[United States]: Issued by U.S. Treasury Dept., [between 1914 and 1918].

Raleigh: W.W. Holden, 1860. 112 p.

New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1856. xx, 351 p.

Raleigh: H. D. Turner, 1858. xvi, 314, [1] p.

Raymond and Eunice English, along with their son and nephew, worry that Hurricane Floyd may have irreparably crippled the aging Duplin County, N.C., farming community.

Alma Enloe remembers West Charlotte High School as an extension of the pre-integration African American community in Charlotte.

Savannah: Power Press of John M. Cooper & Company, 1861. 19 p.

New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861. 24 p.

Jackson: Mississippian Book and Job Office, 1861. 104 p.

[S. l.: s. n.], 1916. 4 p.

Columbia: Evans & Cogswell, 1864. 82 p.

Charleston, S. C.: Printed by A. E. Miller, 1861. 76 p.

Charleston, S. C.: Miller, 1862. 80 p.

Richmond: B.R. Wren, 1863. 88 p.

Henderson, N.C.: Jones-Stone Printing Co., 1916. 20 p.

London: Author, [1789]. v, [9], 272, [5] p.

London: Author, [1789]. [2], 255 p.

[United States]: [s.n.], [1918?].

Willie Snow Ethridge discusses her career as a writer in the South and her efforts to combine work with family and marriage. In addition, she describes growing up in Georgia, gender expectations in the South, and her work in the anti-lynching movement.

Richmond: West & Johnston, 1864. 183 p.

New York; London: Carleton, Publisher; S. Low, Son & Co., 1867. 571, 4 p.

Martha W. Evans was already an active participant in Charlotte, North Carolina, politics when she was elected as a state legislator in 1962. In this interview, she describes local and state politics as they related to the great physical and economic growth Charlotte experienced from the late 1950s into the 1970s.

A pioneer in women's education and women in law, Kathrine Robinson Everett describes what it was like to attend law school in the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, Everett practiced law in Cumberland County and worked to register women to vote after the passage of the 19th Amendment. Following her marriage in 1928, Everett worked alongside her husband, supporting his legal and political career; became involved in local politics in Durham; and worked with various women's organizations.

Kathrine Robinson Everett recalls a career as a trailblazing female lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Alice Evitt describes her rural childhood and life as a millworker and mother in North Carolina in the first half of the 20th Century.

Successful farmer, businessman, and politician Lauch Faircloth discusses the changes in North Carolina's agricultural economy since World War II.

North Carolina businessman and politician Lauch Faircloth describes his ascent through both business and politics.

Jean Fairfax first moved to the South in 1942, where she became involved with the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen for several years. Fairfax describes the goals and activities of the Fellowship, discusses the role of leadership in the Fellowship, and draws connections between her work with the Fellowship in the 1940s and her later involvement with the civil rights movement from the late 1950s on.

[S. l.] (Raleigh, N.C. : Allied Printing Trades Council): [s. n.], [1905?]. 15 p.

New York: The Viking Press, 1927. [vii], 56 p.

[United States]: American Library Association, [between 1914 and 1918].

[United States]: [Committee on Public Information?], [1917].

A two-term member of the Texas state legislature, France Farenthold describes reform efforts in Texas politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, Farenthold talks about what she perceives as a decline in overt racism during the post-World War II years, the role of women, and other demographic and sociocultural changes in Texas politics.

Farmville, Va.: [The College], 1863. 1 p.

Richmond, Va.: Soldiers' Tract Association, M.E. Church, South ; (Richmond: C.H. Wynne, Printer), 1863. 16 p.

Samuel and Leonia Farrar remember a lifetime of hard work in rural and urban North Carolina.

Orval Faubus defends his legacy.

Ethel Marshall Faucette describes the working environment and social life of the Glencoe mill town in Burlington, North Carolina. Faucette worked at Glencoe Mill from 1915 to 1954 and she explains the changes to workers' lives over her decades of employment.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910. ix, 149 p.

London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863. 115 p.

Chicago, Ill.: National Christian Association, 1891. 211 p.

Atlanta, Ga.: Index Printing Company, c1919. 299 p.

Raleigh: Printed by J. Gales & Son, 1823. 13 p.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882. 22 p.

Frances Hogan was in charge of finding facilities, equipment, and competitions for the women's athletics program at the University of North Carolina from 1946 to the 1970s. She discusses how students and coaches worked around the limitations to plan their own tournaments and occasionally succeeded on the national level. She describes the change from club sports to NCAA division sports and the introduction of Title IX in the 1970s. The interview ends with her summary of why the program is successful.

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Richmond, VA: The Virginia Historical Society, 1980. 75-93 p.

David Burgess discusses how his religious faith fused into his life work of social activism. In particular, he explains his involvement in labor organizing in the South.

Scott Hoyman worked as an organizer and bargainer for the Textile Workers Union of America. In the 1950s, he was transferred to the South, where he was primarily based in North Carolina, following the Baldanzi-Rieve split in the TWUA. He describes his work during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing primarily on obstacles the TWUA faced in organizing southern textile mills during these years.

Wilbur Hobby describes growing up impoverished in Durham, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and his eventual involvement in the labor movement. Employed by the American Tobacco Company after World War II, he became an active member of the union and eventually became a leader in such organizations as the Voters for Better Government and the Committee for Public Education.

Howard Kester was a pacifist and social reformer in the South from the early 1920s through the 1960s. In this interview, he focuses on his adherence to pacifism, Christianity and the Social Gospel, and Socialism. He describes his work to end injustices associated with race and labor, and assesses the work of prominent social justice leaders in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.

Jim Pierce first learned about the labor movement while growing up in Oklahoma during the 1930s. By the late 1940s, he had become a leader in his local union at Western Electric in Fort Worth, Texas. During the 1950s and 1960s, he organized unions for the CIO, the IUE, and the IUD. He describes his belief in labor activism but also his growing disillusionment with the movement by the end of the 1960s.

John Russell describes his work as an international representative and organizer for the Amalgamated Meat Workers Union following its merger with the Fur and Leather Workers Union in 1955. Russell discusses the limitations and opportunities that resulted from this merger, his work organizing poultry workers, and his thoughts on the changing nature of the labor movement.

John Russell describes the events leading to the merger of the Fur and Leather Workers Union with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1955. Russell focuses on the progressive political views of the Fur and Leather Workers, their strong regional presence in the south, the role of leaders within their trade union movement, and the aftermath of the merger.

Joseph Pedigo was an active participant and leader in the labor movement among textile workers in the South during the 1930s and 1940s. In this interview, he describes his role in the formation of a local union at American Viscose in Roanoke, Virginia, and his work with the Textile Workers Union of American towards organizing textile workers throughout the South.

Lacy Wright worked for Cone Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina, for nearly fifty years, from the late 1910s at the age of twelve to the mid-1960s. He describes work in the textile industry, life in the mill villages, and the role of the labor movement in the Southern textile industry during a large stretch of the twentieth century.

Larry Rogin grew up in the Northeast in an immigrant family inclined toward radical politics. In the 1930s, Rogin became actively involved in the labor movement. In this interview, he describes his work in labor education, focusing specifically on the Brookwood Labor College, the Central Labor Union, and his work with the Hosiery Workers' Union in the South.

Zeno Ponder is one of the most respected and influential leaders of Madison County, North Carolina. This interview begins with his descriptions of his family's activities in the area and local political traditions. Ponder briefly describes his experiences at local schools, including Mars Hill College. Ponder became involved in local politics through a training program and his brother's sheriff campaign.

The Reverend William W. Finlator speaks about his Christian devotion to racial and economic justice and his fear that the modern-day mingling of religion and politics is polluting both.

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 17 p.

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no. 4 (October 1922), 380-418. Lancaster, Pa.; Washington D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 380-418 p.

Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1857. xxiii, 379 p.

Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1854. 310 p.

New York: American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918].

New York: Stage Women's War Relief, [between 1914 and 1918].

Harold Fleming recounts how he became involved with the Southern Regional Council and the kinds of criticisms he faced for opposing racism in the 1940s and 1950s. He especially remembers many Communist trials designed to scare racial progressives and how many limited their involvement in organizations like the S.R.C. for fear of losing their jobs. Fleming compares the leadership styles of those he encountered in the organization and mentions that he was motivated by frustration with the Jim Crow system and its consequences for the South.

J. Carlton Fleming, who was on a Chamber of Commerce committee pushing for consolidation in Charlotte, NC, in the 1960s, discusses the demise of the issue in this interview.

The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 15, (July 1909). 61-82 p.

Raleigh, N.C.: The History Committee of the 113th F.A., 1920. 262 p.

New York: H. Lee & co., 1878. 322 p.

Sheila Florence, among the first African Americans to desegregate Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, NC, remembers growing up in the segregated South and working to end desegregation.

Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1860. 390 p.

Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, Printed by Dyke and Carlisle, 1861. 371 p.

Tallahassee: Printed at the "Florida Sentinel" Office by Hart & Barefoot, 1860. 400, 24 p.

[Richmond, Va.]: The House, [1865]. 1 p.

Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902. 193 p.

Andy K. Foley lost his job when the White Furniture Company closed, but he lost friendships and a playful work atmosphere as well. In this interview he recalls the fun he had on the job and laments the factory's closing.

New York: Robert Carter, 1846. 557, [8] p.

New York; Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. 136 p.

Clark Foreman worked in the Atlanta Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare from the 1920s through the 1940s. This interview traces his efforts to provide equal social services and political rights for African Americans through these organizations and explains how he developed these goals. He also discusses his travels in Europe, his work with Black Mountain College and organized labor, and his criticism of the communist scare. His wife, Mairi Foreman, explains how his views sometimes offended his associates but inspired his children to lifelong political awareness.

Asheville, N.C.: Edney & Dedman, 1849. 308, 5 p.

8 pages, 8 page images.

[Philadelphia]: s. n., [1918?].

Exeter: s.n., 1795. 12 p.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 186-?. 25 p.

9 pages, 10 page images.

Richmond, Va.: Geo. P. Evans & Co., Printers, 1864. 72 p.

Harvey E. Beech describes his journey to becoming a lawyer fighting for legal justice. In 1951, he was one of five students who made up the first group of African Americans to attend the University of North Carolina's law school. Beech assesses the racial changes since the mid-twentieth century and discusses racism in contemporary America.

John Hope Franklin remembers life as a student in the segregated South.

Baltimore: J. W. Woods, Printer, 1869. 40 p.

John Broadus Mitchell grew up in a family that held to liberal politics and believed in community involvement. Educated as an economic historian, Mitchell conducted extensive research on the establishment of the cotton textile industry in the South following the Civil War. In the 1920s and 1930s, he advocated for worker rights, spoke out against racial violence, and socialist politics.

Ethel Bowman Shockley and her daughter Hazel Shockley Cannon describe life and work in the mill town of Glen Raven, North Carolina. Shockley worked at the Plaid Mill from 1927 to 1964; she describes how working conditions changed through the Depression, World War II, and the postwar years.

Flossie Moore Durham fondly remembers mill work, the mill community, and her long life as a wife and mother in Bynum, NC.

Flossie Moore Durham discusses her family's career in the Bynum textile mill.

Guion Griffis Johnson was among the first generation of female professional historians and a pioneer of social history. For this interview, she discusses the work she did for Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina Department of Sociology from 1923 until 1934. She also describes the research she did for projects on St. Helena's Island and on antebellum North Carolina while working toward her Ph.D. She explains how she lost her job at the University of North Carolina in 1930 but continued to work until she and her husband transferred to Baylor College in 1934.

Southern sociologist Guion Griffis Johnson describes her work with the Georgia Conference on Social Welfare during the 1940s and her involvement with the women's movement and civil rights activism during the 1960s and 1970s in North Carolina. She discusses strategies for effecting change, the achievements of the Georgia Conference in promoting awareness of social welfare and race-related issues, and the progress of women and African Americans in their struggle for equality.

Guion Griffis Johnson, a Southern sociologist who received her Ph.D. in sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1927, discusses the challenges she faced as she balanced career and family as a woman. Johnson describes women's changing roles in American society, and addresses her involvement in voluntary organizations, advances in birth control and abortion, and the evolving nature of marriage, divorce, and family.

Harriet Herring, University of North Carolina sociologist, recalls her efforts to study labor at North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the 20th Century.

Socialist and Christian activist Howard Kester describes his work in various organizations committed to social justice in the South during the 1930s and 1940s. In particular, Kester focuses on his work in promoting equality for African Americans and working people in the South, including his efforts to bridge gaps between those two groups.

Louise Jones describes life and work in Bynum, North Carolina, a cotton mill town, during the first half of the twentieth century. Jones discusses the role of religion, marriage, and family in her life and in the community. In addition, she describes working as a winder in the cotton mill, focusing on such issues as work conditions, gender, balancing work and family, relationships between workers, and workers' benefits.

Louise Riggsbee Jones describes growing up in Bynum, North Carolina—a cotton mill town—during the early twentieth century. She discusses her family and household economy, the role of religion in the community, her experiences in school, her work as a spinner in the cotton mill, and the different ways in which people received medical care in this small mill community.

Southern writer and University of North Carolina professor Charles Phillips Russell describes his participation as a teacher in worker education programs during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing specifically on the Southern Summer School for Workers and the Black Mountain College Institute of the Textile Workers of America, Russell compares the role of faculty, the role of students, and the curriculum at each institution. In addition, he speculates on schools of thought endorsing political action and economic action within the labor movement, specifically as they related to worker education.

Raleigh: Printed at the Standard Book and Job Office, 1866. 32, [1] p.

Longtime principal Johnny A. Freeman reflects on the mixed legacy of desegregation.

Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, Printer, 1865. 31 p.

Mobile: S. H. Goetzel, 1864. 158 p.

In Training School Quarterly. Vol. 4, no. 4 (Jan., Feb., Mar. 1918). Greenville, N. C.: East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1918. 331-333 p.

Former President of the University of North Carolina, William C. Friday, describes his working relationship with Anne Queen, who was director of the campus YWCA and YMCA-YWCA from the late 1950s into the 1970s. Friday discusses Queen's relationship with students and her leadership qualities.

President of the University of North Carolina System William Friday discusses his interaction with United States presidents from Herbert Hoover to George H.W. Bush. The bulk of the interview revolves around descriptions of Friday's work with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter on issues of higher education.

Former president of the University of North Carolina System William Friday describes his relationship with and perception of his predecessors Frank Porter Graham and Gordon Gray. In addition, he describes various aspects of his own presidency, including his approach to desegregation and his relationships with a variety of individuals and organizations.

President of the University of North Carolina System, William Friday, discusses the Speaker Ban Controversy at the University of North Carolina. The ban was enforced from 1963 to 1968 and forbade any communist—or anyone who refused during a formal hearing to disavow allegiance to communism—to speak on campus. Throughout the interview, Friday focuses on issues of academic freedom, his efforts to have the law overturned, and the broader social unrest that characterized campus politics during that era.

Judge Julia Virginia Jones traces the development of her professional career, which culminated in a federal judgeship. She illuminates the impact her gender had on her growth in the legal field.

Winston-Salem, N. C.: Barber Print. Co., 1919. 68 p.

4 pages, 4 page images.

Augusta, Ga.: [Fruitland Nurseries], 1863. 1 p.

Julius Fry was a textile worker for Mansfield Mill, Inc. in Lumberton, North Carolina from 1927 to 1943. During the early years of the Great Depression, Fry was increasingly drawn to labor activism, especially after the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rise of the New Deal. Fry describes what it was like to work at the Mansfield Mill, Inc., the organization of a union in Lumberton, North Carolina, and his own role within the labor movement in the South.

Henry Frye grew up in a segregated farming community in North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s before becoming a lawyer. He went on to become the first African American elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and to serve on the state Supreme Court. In this interview, he describes race relations, his career as a lawyer, and his experiences in politics.

[Raleigh, N.C.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865]. 16 p.

3 pages, 4 page images.

4 pages, 5 page images.

New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1873. 408 p.

Alester G. Furman, Jr., was born and raised in South Carolina, where his family had lived for generations. He describes his family's involvement in the founding of Furman University in the early 1800s, his father's role in the establishment of the textile industry in Greenville, and the evolution of the textile industry over the course of the early twentieth century.

Greenville, S. C.: [The University], 1861. 36 p.

Saginaw, Mich.: Friedman & Hynan, 1892. [5]-208 p.

Atlanta: Franklin Publishing House, 1890. xxii, 305 p.

Philadelphia: A. M. E. Publishing House, 1897. 218 p.

New York: D. Fanshaw, 1828. 8 p.

Though Christine and Dave Galliher are interviewed together, the focus is on Christine's memories of life and work in Elizabethton. She describes life and work in Elizabethton, Tennessee, during the late 1920s through the 1940s. She also discusses their participation in the 1929 walk-out strike at the Bermberg and Glantzstoff textile mills; Christine's attendance of the Southern Summer School for women workers; life during the Great Depression; and balancing work and family.

Architect and politician Harvey Gantt describes his ascent from a childhood in segregated Charleston, SC, to becoming the first black mayor of Charlotte, NC. As a southerner, he sees the accomplishments of the civil rights movement as dramatic; as a member of the black middle class, he leans toward negotiation rather than revolt.

Jefferson, Ohio: J.A. Howells & Co., Printers, 1902. 23 p.

3 pages, 3 page images.

4 pages, 4 page images.

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. xliv, 115 p.

Raleigh: Jos. Gales & Son, 1832. 16 p.

2 pages, 3 page images.

[United States]: [Red Cross], [between 1914 and 1918].

Jackson, Miss.: South-Western Confederate Printing House, 1863. 45 p.

Milledgeville: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers, 1862. 159 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes, & Moore, State Printers, 1864. 174 p.

From The Independent, 56 (Feb. 25, 1904): 409-414. New York: Published for the proprietors, 1904. 409-414 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton Nisbet & Barnes, state Printers, 1861. 416 p.

[Milledgeville? Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore?], 1865. 7 p.

[Georgia: The Assembly, 1862]. 1 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers, 1864. 8 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, 1864. 112 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, 1863. 221 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore,, 1865. 182 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, 1861. 351 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, 1862. 336 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, 1863. 271 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers, 1864. 104 p.

Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta Intelligencer Print, 1862. 52 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, state printers, 1863. 16 p.

Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, State Printer, 1864. 48 p.

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Ellen Gerber received her doctorate in physical education and taught in northern colleges before attending law school at the University of North Carolina during the mid-1970s. After her graduation, she accepted a job with Legal Aid. She describes her careers in physical education and law and discusses in detail her advocacy of women's issues.

Carrie Lee Gerringer describes what it was like to work in the textile mills in Bynum, North Carolina, from the 1920s into the post-World War II years. She discusses growing up in a working class family, focusing especially on balancing family and work. Married at sixteen, Gerringer worked in the textile mills throughout her adult life, struggling to make ends meet while raising six children.

Martin Gerry recalls his efforts, as the director of the Office of Civil Rights, to accelerate desegregation in North Carolina.

Frank Gilbert recalls his laboring life in and around Conover, NC.

Boston: The Author, 1850. xii, 13-144 p.