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Oral History Interview with Barbara Lorie, February 26, 2001. Interview K-0211. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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Facing harassment for racial beliefs

Lorie describes the harassment she encountered because of her anti-racist beliefs and teaching practices.

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Interviewer	Melissa Froemming
Interviewee	Barbara Lorie
Excerpt Length	0:00:48
Start Time	00:34:15
Stop Time	00:35:03
Subjects	Race and Civil Rights > WHITE RESPONSES TO CHANGE > Resistance: Other Group Race and Civil Rights > WHITE RESPONSES TO CHANGE > Support: Individual Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND EDUCATION K-12 > Student - Teacher Interactions Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Physical Harassment and Violence

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Oral History Interview with Barbara Lorie, February 26, 2001. Interview K-0211. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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BARBARA LORIE:: ...Anyway, the next year, it was after…there were a lot of things in my personal life that happened. I had dead animals thrown in my driveway. I had my windows shot out. I had terrible obscene phone calls. Because I would bring black kids home, I taught, weekends I taught Upward Bound. In the summertime I taught Upward Bound, brought those black kids back into my home. So my neighbor was a Klan person. So I don't know where it came from, if it came from them, I don't, I'm not judging them. Anyway, that was my experience.