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Taylor, J. Randolph
conducted by Bruce Kalk
Oral History Interview with J. Randolph Taylor, May 23, 1985. Interview C-0021. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
J. Randolph Taylor pauses to reflect on his participation in the Civil Rights Movement, the reunification of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, and various other social justice campaigns.
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Schmidt, Evelyn
conducted by Ann Kaplan
Oral History Interview with Evelyn Schmidt, February 9, 1999. Interview K-0137. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Dr. Evelyn Schmidt discusses the connections between race, class, nationality, and health in Durham, NC.
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Kearney, Belle, 1863-1939
A Slaveholder's Daughter
New York: The Abbey Press, c1900. iv, 269 p.
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Keckley, Elizabeth, ca. 1818-1907
Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1868. 371 p.
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Keeling, Henry, 1795-1870
The Colporteur's Commission: A Tract for the Times, in Several Scriptural Hymns
[Richmond? Va.: s. n., 1862?]. 8 p.
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Keesee-Forrester, Margaret
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Margaret Keesee-Forrester, April 21, 1989. Interview C-0065. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Margaret Kessee-Forrester, a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, became the first woman from Guilford County elected to the North Carolina General Assembly. In this interview, she describes her experiences as a woman serving in the state legislature during the 1970s and 1980s, her involvement in the women's movement, and her stance as a moderate Republican.
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Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900
Recollections of a Naval Life: Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama"
Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. 307 p.
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Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. 374 p.
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Kelley, Edmond, b. 1817.
A Family Redeemed from Bondage; Being Rev. Edmond Kelley, (the Author,) His Wife, and Four Children
New Bedford: The Author, 1851. 19 p.
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Kelley, Larry and
Kelley, Betty
conducted by Charles Thompson, Charles Thompson, and Rob Amberg
Oral History Interview with Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Kelly, James
Senior Oration of James Kelly for the Dialectic Society, March 10, 1860: "Is the Study of Mathematics Injurious to the Mind?"
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association
Minutes of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association, Held with The Hill's Chapel Baptist Church Faison, Duplin Co., N. C. Rev. A. B. McPhail, Acting Pastor. October 15, 16, 17, and 18th 1925.
Wilmington, N. C.: R. S. Jervay's Print, 1926. 33 p.
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Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association
Minutes of the Forty-Ninth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association, Held with Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church, Kerr, Sampson County, N. C., October 16, 17, and 18, 1919.
Goldsboro, N. C.: Nash Brothers, 1920. 17 p.
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Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention
Minutes of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention, Held with Poplar Grove Missionary Baptist Sunday School, July 18th to 20th, 1919.
Goldsboro, N. C.: Nash Brothers, Printers and Binders, 1920. 16 p.
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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. [xiv], 9-598 p.
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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's
New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1872, c1854. 432 p.
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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. x, 312 p.
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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Swallow Barn, or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. iv, 320 p.
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Kennedy, Stetson
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0354. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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selected and edited by Charles William Kent
Southern Poems. Selected, Arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1913. viii, 112 p.
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Ethridge, Willie Snow
conducted by Lee Kessler
Oral History Interview with Willie Snow Ethridge, December 15, 1975. Interview G-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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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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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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Killian, Kathryn and
Bolick, Blanche
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Kathryn Killian and Blanche Bolick, December 12, 1979. Interview H-0131. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Kathryn Killian and her sister Blanche Bolick recall their upbringing near Conover, NC, and their careers making gloves.
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Kimberly Family
Personal Correspondence, 1862-1864
Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 70 p.
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King, Edward, 1848-1896
illustrated by James Wells Champney
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1875. xiv, [17]-802, [4] p.
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King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932
Balcony Stories
New Orleans: The L. Graham Co., Ltd., 1914. 245 p.
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King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932
Monsieur Motte
New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1888. 327 p.
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King, William, fl. 1864-1879
Diary of William King, Cobb County, Georgia, 1864: (Typescript)
Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 118 p.
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Kingsbury, Theodore Bryant, 1828-1913
Composition of Theodore B. Kingsbury, September 1848: "Our Literature"
8 pages, 9 page images.
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Kirk, Bobby
conducted by K. Campbell
Oral History Interview with Bobby Kirk, October 28, 1985. Interview K-0013. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
A Farmer Responds to the Cane Creek Reservoir
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North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration
edited by J. S. Kirk, Walter A. Cutter, and Thomas W. Morse
Emergency Relief in North Carolina. A Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration, 1932-1935. North Carolina Emergency Relief Commission, State Administrator, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry. Edited by J.S. Kirk, Walter A. Cutter [and] Thomas W. Morse
[Raleigh]: [Edwards & Broughton], 1936. 544 p.
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Kirk, J. Allen
A Statement of Facts Concerning the Bloody Riot in Wilmington, N.C. Of Interest to Every Citizen of the United States
[Wilmington?, N. C.: The Author?, 1898?]. 16 p.
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Howerton, W. H. and
Klein, M. C.
The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths
Raleigh: W. H. Ferrel., [1880?]. 16 p.
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Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren), b. 1885.
Teamwork Wins : United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Philadelphia: Issued by Publications Section, [between 1914 and 1918].
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Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1885-1953
Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina: A Report on Recent Tendencies and Present Problems in Undergraduate Work in Some American Institutions of Higher Learning
[Chapel Hill, N.C.]: [s.n.], 1934. [ii], 212 p.
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Templeton, Elva
conducted by Anne Kratzer
Oral History Interview with Elva Templeton, January 24, 1976. Interview K-0188. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Elva Templeton remembers her childhood in historic Cary, N.C.
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Kreps, Juanita
conducted by Lynn Haessly
Oral History Interview with Juanita Kreps, January 17, 1986. Interview C-0011. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Academic and Carter cabinet member Juanita Kreps describes her career as an economist and as an early proponent of women's rights.
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Whitesell, Emma
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, July 27, 1977. Interview H-0057. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Emma Whitesell recalls a lifetime of work in North Carolina textile mills.
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Whitesell, Emma
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, July 27, 1977. Interview H-57. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Emma Whitesell discusses changes at Plaid Mill and Swepsonville following the retirement of Walter Williams.
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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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Pharis, James
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with James Pharis, July 24, 1977. Interview H-0038. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
James Pharis reflects on his forty years in textile mill work, most of which he spent as a supervisor.
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Pharis, James
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with James Pharis, July 24, 1977. Interview H-38. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
James Pharis remembers the challenges of his two decades as a supervisor with Burlington Mills.
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Robinette, Jefferson M.
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, July 1977. Interview H-0041. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jefferson Robinette recalls a lifetime of labor in textile mills, furniture factories, and a dairy. He got his first job when he was twelve and worked until he was eighty-three.
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Robinette, Jefferson M.
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, July 1977. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jefferson M. Robinette Jefferson M. Robinette reflects on a very long career, during which he worked for many companies, not all of them textile mills.
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Glenn, Josephine
conducted by Cliff Kuhn and Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Josephine Glenn, June 27, 1977. Interview H-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
During the course of her career, Josephine Glenn worked in several mills around Burlington, NC, allowing her to compare the textile factories in Burlington and their various working environments. She covers many topics, including war-time production, the end of segregation, and the changing roles of women in the factories.
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Glenn, Josephine K.
conducted by Cliff Kuhn
Oral History Interview with Mrs. Howard K. Glenn, June 27, 1977. Interview H-22. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Kurfees, John W.
Everybody Read!!! The Fight is On!! The Issue is Clear Cut
[Winston Salem?]: [s. n.], [1926?]. [4] p.
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Kytle, Calvin
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Calvin Kytle, January 19, 1991. Interview A-0365. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.