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Faircloth, Lauch
conducted by Joseph Mosnier
Oral History Interview with Lauch Faircloth, July 16, 1999. Interview I-0070. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Successful farmer, businessman, and politician Lauch Faircloth discusses the changes in North Carolina's agricultural economy since World War II.
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Faircloth, Lauch
conducted by Joseph Mosnier
Oral History Interview with Lauch Faircloth, March 22, 1999. Interview I-0069. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
North Carolina businessman and politician Lauch Faircloth describes his ascent through both business and politics.
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Fairfax, Jean and
Fairfax, Jean
conducted by Dallas Blanchard and Dallas Blanchard
Oral History Interview with Jean Fairfax, October 15, 1983. Interview F-0013. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Faison, W. E.
The Dignity, Power and Responsibility of Organized Labor: Labor Day Address, Greensboro, N.C., September 4, 1905
[S. l.] (Raleigh, N.C. : Allied Printing Trades Council): [s. n.], [1905?]. 15 p.
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
Illustrated by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
God's Trombones. Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
New York: The Viking Press, 1927. [vii], 56 p.
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Falls, C. B. (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960
Yanks in Germany Want More Books : Take a Good Live Fiction to the Public Library for Immediate Shipment
[United States]: American Library Association, [between 1914 and 1918].
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Fancher, Louis, b. 1884
U.S. Official War Pictures
[United States]: [Committee on Public Information?], [1917].
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Farenthold, Frances
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Frances Farenthold, December 14, 1974. Interview A-0186. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Farmville Female College
The Next Term of This Institution Will Commence Thursday, October 1st, 1863
Farmville, Va.: [The College], 1863. 1 p.
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compiled by S. L. Farr
A Manual for Infant Schools: compiled by S. L. Farr; edited by Thomas O. Summers
Richmond, Va.: Soldiers' Tract Association, M.E. Church, South ; (Richmond: C.H. Wynne, Printer), 1863. 16 p.
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Farrar, Samuel James (S.J.) and
Farrar, Leonia
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with S.J. and Leonia Farrar, May 28, 2003. Interview K-0652. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Samuel and Leonia Farrar remember a lifetime of hard work in rural and urban North Carolina.
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Faubus, Orval
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Orval Faubus, June 14, 1974. Interview A-0031. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Orval Faubus defends his legacy.
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Faucette, Ethel Marshall
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Ethel Marshall Faucette, November 16, 1978, January 4, 1979. Interview H-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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edited by Frances Hewitt Fearn and illustrated by Rosalie Urquhart
Diary of a Refugee
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910. ix, 149 p.
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Fedric, Francis
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America
London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863. 115 p.
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Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901
Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky
Chicago, Ill.: National Christian Association, 1891. 211 p.
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Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930
Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth
Atlanta, Ga.: Index Printing Company, c1919. 299 p.
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Female Benevolent Society (Raleigh, N.C.)
Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society, Adopted July 23d, 1823. With the Reports of the Society, from Its Commencement
Raleigh: Printed by J. Gales & Son, 1823. 13 p.
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Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), d. 1903,
Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina), d. 1924, and
Fenner, Thomas P.
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.
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Ferebee, L. R. (London R.), b. 1849
A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life. Written from Memory. To 1882
Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882. 22 p.
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Hogan, Frances
conducted by Mary Jo Festle
Oral History Interview with Frances Hogan, May 23, 1991, and June 3, 1991. Interview L-0044. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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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Fetter, Manuel, d. 1889
Letter from Manuel Fetter to William A. Graham, March 2, 1860
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Fetter, Manuel, d. 1889
Report of Manuel Fetter on the Burning of the Belfry, August 8, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Fields
Edited by Mary Jo Jackson Bratton
Fields's Observations: The Slave Narrative of a Nineteenth-Century Virginian. From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 88, 75-93
Richmond, VA: The Virginia Historical Society, 1980. 75-93 p.
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Burgess, David
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Bill Finger
Oral History Interview with David Burgess, September 25, 1974. Interview E-0001. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Hoyman, Scott
conducted by Bill Finger
Oral History Interview with Scott Hoyman, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Hobby, Wilbur
conducted by Bill Finger
Oral History Interview with Wilbur Hobby, March 13, 1975. Interview E-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Kester, Howard
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and William Finger
Oral History Interview with Howard Kester, July 22, 1974. Interview B-0007-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Pierce, Jim
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with Jim Pierce, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0012-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Russell, John
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with John Russell, July 19, 1975. Interview E-0014-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Russell, John
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with John Russell, July 25, 1974. Interview E-0014-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Pedigo, Joseph D.
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with Joseph D. Pedigo, April 2, 1975. Interview E-0011-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Wright, Lacy
conducted by William Finger and Chip Hughes
Oral History Interview with Lacy Wright, March 10, 1975. Interview E-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Rogin, Lawrence
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Rogin, November 2, 1975. Interview E-0013. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Ponder, Zeno
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with Zeno Ponder, March 22, 1974. Interview A-0326. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Finlator, William W.
conducted by Jay Jenkins
Oral History Interview with William W. Finlator, April 19, 1985. Interview C-0007. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Fisher, Julia Johnson, 1814-1885
Diary, 1864
Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 17 p.
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Fisher, Miles Mark, 1899-1970
Lott Cary, the Colonizing Missionary
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.
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Fitzhugh, George, 1806-1881
Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters
Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1857. xxiii, 379 p.
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Fitzhugh, George, 1806-1881
Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society
Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1854. 310 p.
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Flagg, James Montegomery, 1877-1960
I am Telling You : on June 28th I Expect You to Enlist in the Army of War Savers to back up My Army of Fighters : W.S.S. Enlistment
New York: American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918].
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Flagg, James Montegomery, 1877-1960
Stage Women's War Relief
New York: Stage Women's War Relief, [between 1914 and 1918].
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Fleming, Harold
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Harold Fleming, January 24, 1990. Interview A-0363. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Fleming, J. Carlton
conducted by Bill Moye
Oral History Interview with J. Carlton Fleming, [date unknown]. Interview B-0068. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Fleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood), 1874-1932
"Pap" Singleton, The Moses of the Colored Exodus
The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 15, (July 1909). 61-82 p.
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Fletcher, Arthur Lloyd, 1881-
History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division
Raleigh, N.C.: The History Committee of the 113th F.A., 1920. 262 p.
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Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940
The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy
New York: H. Lee & co., 1878. 322 p.
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Florence, Sheila
conducted by Bob Gilgor
Oral History Interview with Sheila Florence, January 20, 2001. Interview K-0544. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Florida. General Assembly. House of Representatives
House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860
Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1860. 390 p.
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Florida. General Assembly. House of Representatives
A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at its Eleventh Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 18, 1861
Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, Printed by Dyke and Carlisle, 1861. 371 p.
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Florida. General Assembly. Senate
Senate Journal. Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly, of the State of Florida, at the Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26th, 1860
Tallahassee: Printed at the "Florida Sentinel" Office by Hart & Barefoot, 1860. 400, 24 p.
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Florida. Legislature
Joint Resolution of Confidence in and Thanks to President Jefferson Davis
[Richmond, Va.]: The House, [1865]. 1 p.
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Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902. 193 p.
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Foley, Andy
conducted by Jeff Cowie
Oral History Interview with Andy Foley, May 18, 1994. Interview K-0095. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
New York: Robert Carter, 1846. 557, [8] p.
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Ford, Arthur Peronneau and
Ford, Marion Johnstone
Life in the Confederate Army: Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army ; and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life
New York; Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. 136 p.
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Foreman, Clark
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Bill Finger
Oral History Interview with Clark Foreman, November 16, 1974. Interview B-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Foreman, Richard and
Mahoney, Jas. W. (James W.)
The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory
Asheville, N.C.: Edney & Dedman, 1849. 308, 5 p.
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Forney, Daniel, 1784-1847
"Is Duelling Justifiable?" Composition of Daniel Forney for the Dialectic Society, August 29, 1804
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Forsythe, Clyde
And They Thought We Couldn't Fight. Victory Liberty Loan
[Philadelphia]: s. n., [1918?].
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Fortis, Edmund, d. 1794
The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man, Who Appeared to Be between Thirty and Forty Years of Age, but Very Ignorant. He Was Executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the Twenty-Fifth Day of September, 1794, for a Rape and Murder, Committed on the Body of Pamela Tilton, a Young Girl of about Fourteen Years of Age, Daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the County of Lincoln
Exeter: s.n., 1795. 12 p.
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Foster, Gustavus L. (Gustavus Lemuel), 1818-1876
Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 186-?. 25 p.
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Foster, Wilbur Fiske
Junior Debate Speech of Wilbur F. Foster for the Dialectic Society, 1858: "Are the Ancient Languages Worthy the Place Which They Now Hold in the Course of Education?"
9 pages, 10 page images.
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Fowler, William H.
Guide for Claimants of Deceased Soldiers, Being Instructions to Army Officers and to Claimants, with a Collation of the Laws of Congress and the Orders from the War Department, and the Rules of Practice in the Offices of the Second Auditor and Comptr
Richmond, Va.: Geo. P. Evans & Co., Printers, 1864. 72 p.
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Beech, Harvey E.
conducted by Anita Foye
Oral History Interview with Harvey E. Beech, September 25, 1996. Interview J-0075. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Franklin, John Hope
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with John Hope Franklin, July 27, 1990. Interview A-0339. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Hope Franklin remembers life as a student in the segregated South.
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Frederick, Francis, b. 1809?
Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia
Baltimore: J. W. Woods, Printer, 1869. 40 p.
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Mitchell, Broadus, 1892-
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Broadus Mitchell, August 14 and 15, 1977. Interview B-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Shockley, Ethel Bowman
conducted by Cliff Kuhn and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Ethel Bowman Shockley, June 24, 1977. Interview H-0045. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Durham, Flossie Moore
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, September 2, 1976. Interview H-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Flossie Moore Durham fondly remembers mill work, the mill community, and her long life as a wife and mother in Bynum, NC.
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Durham, Flossie Moore
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, September 2, 1976. Interview H-66. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Flossie Moore Durham discusses her family's career in the Bynum textile mill.
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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, August 19, 1974. Interview G-0029-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, July 1, 1974. Interview G-0029-4. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Johnson, Guion
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Guion Johnson, May 17, 1974. Interview G-0029-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Herring, Harriet
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Nevin Brown
Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Kester, Howard
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Howard Kester, August 25, 1974. Interview B-0007-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Louise
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Louise Rigsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Louise Rigsbee
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Louise Rigsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Russell, Phillips
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Phillips Russell, November 18, 1974. Interview B-0011-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Freedmen's Convention (1866 : Raleigh, N.C.)
Minutes of the Freedmen's Convention, Held in the City of Raleigh on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 1866
Raleigh: Printed at the Standard Book and Job Office, 1866. 32, [1] p.
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Freeman, Johnny A.
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Johnny A. Freeman, December 27, 1990. Interview M-0011. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Longtime principal Johnny A. Freeman reflects on the mixed legacy of desegregation.
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Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Virginia
Free Masonry and the War: Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia in Reference to our Relations as Masonic Bodies and as Masons, in the North and South, Growing Out of the Manner in which the Present War has been Prosecuted / Adopted by the Grand Lodge of Virginia, December 12, 1864, and ordered to be published. JOHN DOVE, Grand Secretary
Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, Printer, 1865. 31 p.
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Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, 1835-1901
Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863
Mobile: S. H. Goetzel, 1864. 158 p.
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French, Martha H.
Economy in Clothing
In Training School Quarterly. Vol. 4, no. 4 (Jan., Feb., Mar. 1918). Greenville, N. C.: East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1918. 331-333 p.
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Friday, William C.
conducted by Cindy Cheatham
Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, December 18, 1990. Interview L-0049. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Friday, William C.
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, December 3, 1990. Interview L-0147. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Friday, William C.
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, November 19, 1990. Interview L-0144. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Friday, William C.
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, November 26, 1990. Interview L-0145. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Julia Virginia
conducted by Nancy Sara Friedman
Oral History Interview with Julia Virginia Jones, October 6, 1997. Interview J-0072. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Fries, Francis Henry, 1855-1931
History of War Savings Campaign of 1918 in North Carolina
Winston-Salem, N. C.: Barber Print. Co., 1919. 68 p.
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Fries, John Williams, b. 1846
"Legend of Chapel Hill, 1866"
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Fruitland Nurseries
Price List of Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Ornamental Trees, and Shrubs, etc., for the Fall of 1863, and Spring of 1864
Augusta, Ga.: [Fruitland Nurseries], 1863. 1 p.
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Fry, Julius
conducted by William Finger
Oral History Interview with Julius Fry, August 19, 1974. Interview E-0004. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Frye, Henry Ell
conducted by Amy E. Boening
Oral History Interview with Henry Ell Frye, February 18 and 26, 1992. Interview C-0091. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Fuller, Andrew, 1754-1815
The Great Question Answered
[Raleigh, N.C.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865]. 16 p.
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Fuller, Bartholomew, 1829-1882
Composition of Bartholomew Fuller: "The Dangers of a College Life"
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Fuller, Bartholomew, 1829-1882
Inaugural Address of Bartholomew Fuller for the Dialectic Society, August 23, 1850
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Fuller, Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1875
Sea-gift. A Novel
New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1873. 408 p.
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Furman, Alester G.
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman, Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Furman University
A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Furman University, for 1860-'61
Greenville, S. C.: [The University], 1861. 36 p.