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Aaron, Junie Edna Kaylor
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, December 12, 1979. Interview H-0106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron remembers her long working life in the clothing industry in North Carolina.
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Adams, Charles
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with Charles Adams, February 18, 2000. Interview K-0646. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Adams, Floyd
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with Floyd Adams, August 16, 2002. Interview R-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Alexander, Frederick Douglas
conducted by Bill Moye
Oral History Interview with Frederick Douglas Alexander, April 1, 1975. Interview B-0065. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Allen, Cary J.
conducted by Rosemarie Hester
Oral History Interview with Cary J. Allen Jr., April 3, 1980. Interview H-0001. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Allison, Robert Grier, d. 1877
Letter from Robert G. Allison of Charlotte to David L. Swain, February 25, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Alston, Floyd
conducted by Eddie McCoy
Oral History Interview with Floyd Alston Jr., November 29, 1995. Interview Q-0002. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Alves, Gavin
Gavin Alves's Account for Lottery No. 1, January 14, 1803
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Alves, Gavin
Gavin Alves's Account for Lottery No. 2, January 14, 1803
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Alves, Walter
Letter from Walter Alves to John Haywood, July 29, 1801
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Anderson, Walker, 1801-1857
Letter from Professor Walker Anderson to Charles Manly, October 8, 1834
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Anderson, Walker, 1801-1857
Letter from Walker Anderson to the President of the Board of Trustees, November 1834
10 pages, 12 page images.
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Arnow, Harriette
conducted by Mimi Conway
Oral History Interview with Harriette Arnow, April, 1976. Interview G-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813
Letter from Samuel Ashe to Richard Bennehan, July 13, 1796
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Atkins, Eleanor Swain
Letter from Eleanor Swain Atkins to Cornelia Phillips Spencer, May 12, 1865
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Atwater, James
conducted by Jennifer Nardone
Oral History Interview with James Atwater, February 28, 2001. Interview K-0201. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Austin, Eunice
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, July 2, 1980. Interview H-0107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Eunice Austin remembers her life in Catawba County, NC, focusing on her many years working in the textile and furniture industries.
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Auton, Roy Lee and
Auton, Mary Ruth
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Roy Lee and Mary Ruth Auton, February 28, 1980. Interview H-0108. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Roy Lee Auton reflects on a string of jobs and a string of wives in this engaging interview.
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Aycock, Grace
conducted by Frances A. Weaver
Oral History Interview with Grace Aycock, March 28, 1990. Interview L-0037. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Bagley, William, fl. 1842-1850
Letter from William Bagley to Asa Matthews, July 8, 1843
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Bagley, William, fl. 1842-1850
Letter from William Bagley to D. W. Bagley, April 27, 1844
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Bagley, William, fl. 1842-1850
Letter from William Bagley to D. W. Bagley, September 13, 1843
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Bagley, William, fl. 1842-1850
Letter from William Bagley to his Sisters, Clementina and Marietta Bagley, March 8, 1845
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Bagley, William, fl. 1842-1850
Letter from William Bagley to Moses G. Pierce, February 13, 1845
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Bailey, Raleigh
conducted by Barbara Lau
Oral History Interview with Raleigh Bailey, December 6, 2000. Interview K-0270. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Raleigh Bailey describes his work with Southeast Asian immigrant groups in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Baker, Hill
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Hill Baker, June 1977. Interview H-0109-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Hill Baker recalls his long working life as a railroad worker and a factory employee in Conover, North Carolina.
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Baker, Oscar Dearmont
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Oscar Dearmont Baker, June 1977. Interview H-0110. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Barbee, Annie Mack
conducted by Beverly Jones
Oral History Interview with Annie Mack Barbee, May 28, 1979. Interview H-0190. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Barbour, Coleman
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Coleman Barbour, February 16, 1991. Interview M-0032. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Barentine, Richard
conducted by Joseph Mosnier and Dorothy Gay Darr
Oral History Interview with Richard Barentine, January 28, 1999. Interview I-0068. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Richard Barentine, CEO of the International Home Furnishing Marketing Association, describes his leadership style and his contributions to Winston-Salem's furniture industry.
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Barnes, Anne
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Anne Barnes, January 30, 1989. Interview C-0049. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Battle, Lucy
Letter from Lucy Battle to William H. Battle, August 15, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Baxter, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Baxter to James Iredell, Jr., December 10, 1818
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Beavers, Leroy
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002. Interview R-0170. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Leroy Beavers despairs of the effects of integration on Savannah, Georgia.
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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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Bell, Venton
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Venton Bell, January 30, 1991. Interview M-0018. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Venton Bell, principal of Harding High School in Charlotte, NC, describes his duties and reflects on race and education.
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Benbury, Lemuel Creecy
Lemuel Benbury's Account of the Burning of the Belfry, [August 1856]
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Bennehan, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Bennehan to his sister Rebecca, February 9, 1798
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Bennehan, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Bennehan to his sister, Rebecca, May 5, 1798
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Berkstresser, Gordon III
conducted by Patricia Raub
Oral History Interview with Gordon Berkstresser III, April 29, 1986. Interview H-0263. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Gordon Berkstresser III shares the fruits of his study of the textile industry.
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Best, Andrew
conducted by Karen Kruse Thomas
Oral History Interview with Andrew Best, April 19, 1997. Interview R-0011. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Physician Andrew Best recalls his encounters with racial segregation inside and outside Pitt County Memorial Hospital in civil rights-era North Carolina.
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Betsch, MaVynee
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with MaVynee Betsch, November 22, 2002. Interview R-0301. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch remembers her childhood in an African-American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and her experiences with segregation and development.
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Betts, Alexander D.
Alexander D. Betts' Account Book of Student Expenses, 1852-1853
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Blount, W. A.
Invitation to UNC Commencement Ball from W.A. Blount to R.B. Haywood, [May 1843]
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Boggs, Lindy
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Booth, Koka
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with Koka Booth, July 6, 2004. Interview K-0648. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Koka Booth, former mayor of Cary, NC, describes the growth of his city during his 12-year tenure.
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Bowman, Richard and
Bowman, Richard
conducted by Kelly Navies
Oral History Interview with Richard Bowman, July 8, 1998. Interview K-0513. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Breneman, David
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with David Breneman, May 10, 1991. Interview L-0122. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Brewer, Vivion Lenon
conducted by Elizabeth Jacoway
Oral History Interview with Vivion Lenon Brewer, October 15, 1976. Interview G-0012. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Brookes, Iveson Lewis
Address of Iveson L. Brookes to the Dialectic Society, September 1818
9 pages, 9 page images.
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Brooks, Elizabeth
conducted by Beverly Jones
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Brooks, October 2, 1974. Interview E-0058. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Brookshire, Stanford Raynold
conducted by Bill Moye
Oral History Interview with Stanford Raynold Brookshire, August 18, 1975. Interview B-0067. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Brown, Ashbel Green
A. G. Brown's Account of the Burning of the Belfry, August 11, 1856
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Brown, Hugh Thomas, 1835-1861
Letter from Thomas Brown to his sister, August 6, [1853?]
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Brown, Hugh Thomas, 1835-1861
Letter from Thomas Brown to his sister, July 26, 1855
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Bumpers, Dale
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Dale Bumpers, June 17, 1974. Interview A-0026. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Burgess, David
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and William 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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Burgess, David and
Burgess, David
conducted by Dallas A. Blanchard
Oral History Interview with David Burgess, August 12, 1983. Interview F-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Burgwyn, Henry King
Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. to His Mother, August 25, 1857
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Burgwyn, Henry King
Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. to His Mother, September 13, 1857
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Burgwyn, Henry King
Letter from Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. to his Mother, March 29, 1859
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Burgwyn, Henry King
Letter from Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. to His Mother, March 6, 1859
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Burgwyn, William Hyslop,
Busbee, Fabius Haywood, and
Strayhorn, Isaac R.
Letter from Students to David L. Swain, July 29, 1867
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Burnett, Tracy L. H.
conducted by Jeff Cowie
Oral History Interview with Tracy L. H. Burnett, November 15, 1994. Interview K-0088. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Tracy L. H. Burnett finds financial success after the closing of the White Furniture Company.
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Burt, Thomas
conducted by Glenn Hinson
Oral History Interview with Thomas Burt, February 6, 1979. Interview H-0194-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Burwell, Dorothy Royster
conducted by Eddie McCoy
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Royster Burwell, May 29, 1996. Interview Q-0011. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Busbee, Fabius H.
Letter, February 8, 1865 (In Which Fabius H. Busbee States that He is Enclosing an Autograph of Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee and that He is Having the Autograph of Jefferson Davis Sent Later)
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
"An Attempt at a Most Foul and Unnatural Murder!" by Joseph Caldwell, [1805 or After]
5 pages, 5 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell [to John H. Hobart, November 8, 1796]
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to "My dear Friend," June 3, 1807
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Charles Harris, [June 1796]
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Col. William Polk, April 1, 1818
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Denison Olmsted, August 31, 1824
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Rev. William McPheeters, January 1, 1834
9 pages, 10 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Richard Henderson, November 1, 1805
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Board of Trustees, December 24, 1834
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Board of Trustees, February 19, 1824
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Wilmington Gazette, 1805 or After
31 pages, 31 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to William Neill, January 5, 1815
6 pages, 7 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to William R. Davie, August 25, [1796]
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
"A New System of Geometry," by Joseph Caldwell, Professor of Mathematics and President of UNC, Transcribed by Edward McKay, 1806
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Califano, Joseph
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with Joseph Califano, April 5, 1991. Interview L-0125. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Campbell, Green H.
Letter from Six Students to Joseph Caldwell, June 5, 1807
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Campbell, Leroy
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Leroy Campbell, January 4, 1991. Interview M-0007. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#40007)
Leroy Campbell describes his experiences as the principal of the all-black Unity School in Iredell County, NC.
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Cannon, Isabella
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Isabella Cannon, June 27, 1989. Interview C-0062. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cannon, Isabella
conducted by Jim Clark
Oral History Interview with Isabella Cannon, Spring 1993. Interview G-0188. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Carter, Jessie Lee
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Jessie Lee Carter, May 5, 1980. Interview H-0237. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jessie Lee Carter remembers life as a mill worker and mother in rural South Carolina.
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Chambers, Henry
Letter from Henry Chambers to John Steele, September 17, 1805
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Cheatham, Annie Bell Williams
conducted by Eddie McCoy
Oral History Interview with Annie Bell Williams Cheatham, March 21, 1995. Interview Q-0015. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
A black sharecropper's daughter discusses her difficult upbringing on the farm and the many stories of slavery on which she was raised.
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Cherry, Steve
conducted by Mark Jones
Oral History Interview with Steve Cherry, February 19, 1999. Interview K-0430. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Steve Cherry describes desegregation from the perspective of a coach and a principal in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
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Clark, Adele
conducted by Winston Broadfoot
Oral History Interview with Adele Clark, February 28, 1964. Interview G-0014-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Clark, Septima Poinsette
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976. Interview G-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Clark, Septima Poinsette
conducted by Eugene Walker
Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976. Interview G-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Clayton, Eva
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Eva Clayton, July 18, 1989. Interview C-0084. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Activist and politician Eva Clayton describes her years of service in and out of politics in Warren County, North Carolina.
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Clement, Josephine
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Josephine Clement, July 13 and August 3, 1989. Interview C-0074. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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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Clement, William and
Clement, Josephine
conducted by Walter Weare and Juanita Weare
Oral History Interview with William and Josephine Clement, June 19, 1986. Interview C-0031. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cloniger, Loy Connelly
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Loy Connelly Cloniger, June 18, 1980. Interview H-0158. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cochran, Salter and
Cochran, Doris
conducted by Karen Kruse Thomas
Oral History Interview with Salter and Doris Cochran, April 12, 1997. Interview R-0014. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cole, Louise
conducted by Priscilla Murphy
Oral History Interview with Louise Cole, March 16, 1995. Interview G-0157. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cole, Robert
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Robert Cole, May 10, 1981. Interview H-0311. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Robert Cole recalls a violent strike in a textile mill located near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
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Coleman, James P.
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with James P. Coleman, September 5, 1990. Interview A-0338. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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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Cone, Bonnie E.
conducted by Lynn Haessly
Oral History Interview with Bonnie E. Cone, January 7, 1986. Interview C-0048. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cone, Caesar
conducted by Harry Watson
Oral History Interview with Caesar Cone, January 7, 1983. Interview C-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Mill owner Caesar Cone reflects on the textile industry and what he views as the pernicious influence of government in business and society.
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Connor, James W. (Jim)
conducted by Charles Thompson
Oral History Interview with James W. (Jim) Connor, December 19, 1999. Interview K-0818. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Hog farmer Jim Connor describes the impact of Hurricane Floyd and the details of his business, and emphasizes his concern for the environment.
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Cook, Clyde
conducted by Rosemarie Hester
Oral History Interview with Clyde Cook, July 10, 1977. Interview H-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Cook, Cynthia Sykes
conducted by Valerie Pawlewicz
Oral History Interview with Cynthia Sykes Cook, February 19, 1994. Interview K-0091. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Cynthia Sykes Cook recalls the closing of the White Furniture Factory in Mebane, NC.
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Cooley, Martha
conducted by Eddie McCoy
Oral History Interview with Martha Cooley, April 25, 1995. Interview Q-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Martha Cooley describes her childhood in rural Granville County, NC, during the early part of the 20th century.
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Cosby, Dabney, 1779-1862
Dabney Cosby's Agreement for Repairs to the Chapel, April 1847
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Cosby, Dabney, 1779-1862
Letter from Dabney Cosby to Collier & Waitt and David L. Swain, February 25, 1845
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Cosby, Dabney, 1779-1862
Letter from Dabney Cosby to David L. Swain, May 11, 1846
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Coward, Clyda and
Coward, Debra
conducted by Leda Hartman
Oral History Interview with Clyda Coward and Debra Coward, May 30, 2001. Interview K-0833. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Clyda Coward, joined by her daughter 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.
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Crawford, Sam
conducted by Judith Wheeler
Oral History Interview with Sam Crawford, October 26, 1985. Interview K-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Crews, Willie Mae Lee
conducted by Kimberly Hill
Oral History Interview with Willie Mae Lee Crews, June 16, 2005. Interview U-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dabbs, Edith Mitchell
conducted by Elizabeth Jacoway Burns
Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dabney, Virginius
conducted by Daniel Jordan and William H. Turpin
Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Daniel, John
Plan of John Daniel's Donation of Land to the University, May 5, 1795
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Daniels, Jonathan Worth
conducted by Charles Eagles
Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820,
Moore, Alfred, 1755-1810, and
Alves, Walter
Building Commissioners Minutes, June 28, 1801 [Containing Resolutions on the Discontinuance of Work on South Building on the Contracting of Work for the Grammar School]
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, August 20, 1797
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, February 7, 1810
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, February 9, 1797
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, July 22, 1795
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, June 9, 1805
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, March 7, 1796
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, November 6, 1795
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, September 22, 1805
7 pages, 7 page images.
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
William R. Davie's Description of the Site of the University, September 25, 1793
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Alexander J. Davis's Bill, November 16, 1850
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, April 17, 1844
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, August 25, 1845
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, December 5, 1845
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, January 4, 1847
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, July 5, 1850
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, March 24, 1845
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, March 4, 1850
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, March 9, 1847
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, May 31, 1850
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
List of Building Specifications and Costs, Compiled by Alexander J. Davis for David L. Swain, [1844?]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Davis, Ashley
conducted by Russell Rymer
Oral History Interview with Ashley Davis, April 12, 1974. Interview E-0062. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Davis, Mary
Letter from the ladies of New Bern to Joseph Caldwell, November 26, 1803
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Dawson, Raymond
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with Raymond Dawson, February 4, 1991. Interview L-0133. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Day, Thomas, ca. 1801-ca. 1861
Correspondence Between Thomas Day and David L. Swain, November 17, 1847 and November 24, 1847
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Day, Thomas, ca. 1801-ca. 1861
Letter from Thomas Day to [Benjamin S.] Guion, November 17, 1847
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Day, Thomas, ca. 1801-ca. 1861
Letter from Thomas Day to David L. Swain, December 6, 1847
1 pages, 2 page images.
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DeRosset, William Lord
Letter from William Lord DeRosset to his father, Armand John DeRosset, Jr., March 3, 1851
3 pages, 4 page images.
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DeRosset, William Lord
Letter from William Lord DeRosset to his mother, Eliza Jane Lord DeRosset, November 9, 1851 [Containing a Description of a Book Burning]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Deal, Hoy
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Hoy Deal, July 3 and 11, 1979. Interview H-0117. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Defreece, Loistine
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Loistine Defreece, February 16, 1991. Interview M-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Delany, Lemuel
conducted by Kimberly Hill
Oral History Interview with Lemuel Delany, July 15, 2005. Interview R-0346. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dillahunt, Florence
conducted by Leda Hartman
Oral History Interview with Florence Dillahunt, May 31, 2001. Interview K-0580. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dodson, Geddes Elam
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Donaldson, James, 1802-1872
Receipt for Marble Mantels Purchased in New York by James Donaldson, December 5, 1848
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Donaldson, James, 1802-1872 and
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Bibliotheca [Architectural Plan for the Philanthropic Society Library in Old East. Attributed to James Donaldson, but Possibly the Work of Alexander J. Davis, Between 1845 and 1860]
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Donaldson, Robert, 1800-1872
Letter from Robert Donaldson to David L. Swain, December 16, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Donaldson, Robert, 1800-1872
Letter from Robert Donaldson to David L. Swain, December 6, 1845
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Donaldson, Robert, 1800-1872
Letter from Robert Donaldson to David L. Swain, November 10, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Dortch, William Baskerville, 1828-1882
Letter from William B. Dortch to James Johnston Pettigrew, December 11, 1846
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Drye, Carlee
conducted by Rosemarie Hester and George Holt
Oral History Interview with Carlee Drye, April 2, 1980. Interview H-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dugger, George F.
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with George F. Dugger Sr., August 9, 1979. Interview H-0312. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
George F. Dugger Sr. describes his family history and experiences as the plant lawyer during the 1929 Elizabethton Rayon Plant Strike.
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Duke, Daniel
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Daniel Duke, August 22, 1990. Interview A-0366. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dunbar, Leslie W.
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Helen Bresler
Oral History Interview with Leslie W. Dunbar, December 18, 1978. Interview G-0075. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Durham, Eula and
Durham, Vernon
conducted by Jim Leloudis
Oral History Interview with Eula and Vernon Durham, November 29, 1978. Interview H-0064. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Eula Durham and her husband Vernon recall their experiences as mill workers in Bynum, North Carolina.
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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, Frank
conducted by Douglas Denatale and Douglas DeNatale
Oral History Interview with Frank Durham, September 10 and 17, 1979. Interview H-0067. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Durr, Virginia Foster
conducted by Sue Thrasher and Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Durr, Virginia Foster
conducted by Sue Thrasher
Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Dusenbery, James Lawrence, b. 1821
Excerpts from the Diary of James Lawrence Dusenbery, [August 7, 1841]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Dyer, George and
Dyer, Tessie
conducted by Lu Ann Jones
Oral History Interview with George and Tessie Dyer, March 5, 1980. Interview H-0161. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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East, Clay
conducted by Sue Thrasher
Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Elmore, George R.
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
George Elmore discusses a life that took him from farm labor to mill management in rural North Carolina.
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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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Evans, Martha W.
conducted by Bill Moye
Oral History Interview with Martha W. Evans, June 26, 1974. Interview A-0318. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Everett, Kathrine Robinson
conducted by Pamela Dean
Oral History Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett, April 30, 1985. Interview C-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Everett, Kathrine Robinson
conducted by Pamela Dean
Oral History Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett, January 21, 1986. Interview C-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Kathrine Robinson Everett recalls a career as a trailblazing female lawyer and women's rights activist.
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Fairfax, Jean and
Fairfax, Jean
conducted by Dallas A. 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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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, Frances 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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Farrar, Samuel James (S. J.) and
Farrar, Leonia
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with Samuel James (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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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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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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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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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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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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Foreman, Clark
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and William 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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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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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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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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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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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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Galliher, Christine and
Galliher, Dave
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Christine and Dave Galliher, August 8, 1979. Interview H-0314. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Gantt, Harvey B.
conducted by Lynn Haessly
Oral History Interview with Harvey B. Gantt, January 6, 1986. Interview C-0008. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Gaston, William, 1778-1844 and
Badger, George Edmund
Report of William Gaston and George E. Badger, [June 25, 1833]
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Gerber, Ellen W.
conducted by Kristen L. Gislason
Oral History Interview with Ellen W. Gerber, February 18 and March 24, 1992. Interview C-0092. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Gerringer, Carrie Lee and
Gerringer, Carrie Lee
conducted by Douglas Denatale and Douglas DeNatale
Oral History Interview with Carrie Lee Gerringer, August 11, 1979. Interview H-0077. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Gerry, Martin
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with Martin Gerry, August 28, 1991. Interview L-0157. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Martin Gerry recalls his efforts, as the director of the Office of Civil Rights, to accelerate desegregation in North Carolina.
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Gilbert, Frank
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977. Interview H-0121. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Frank Gilbert recalls his laboring life in and around Conover, NC.
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Gillaspie, James Smiley
Letter from James S. Gillaspie to Gavin Alves, February 19, 1800
3 pages, 4 page images.
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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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Gordon, William
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with William Gordon, January 19, 1991. Interview A-0364. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Gore, Albert
conducted by Dewey W. Grantham and James B. Gardner
Oral History Interview with Albert Gore, March 13, 1976. Interview A-0321-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Albert Gore Sr. reviews the history leading up to his senatorial career, concentrating on his rural upbringing and his early political experiences. He also reflects on his impressions of other important politicians he knew, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, Estes Kefauver, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Gore, Albert
conducted by Dewey W. Grantham and James B. Gardner
Oral History Interview with Albert Gore, October 24, 1976. Interview A-0321-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Albert Gore Sr.—a politician from Tennessee noted for being one of two Southern senators to refuse to sign the Southern Manifesto, a 1956 document decrying the desegregation of public spaces in America—summarizes his senatorial career. He discusses his opposition to the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as his activities on a variety of Senate committees.
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Graham, Terry
conducted by Amanda Covington
Oral History Interview with Terry Graham, March 22, 1999. Interview K-0434. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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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Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875
Governor William A. Graham's Drawing Explanatory of his Verbal Report from the Committee on Buildings, January 4, 1858
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Grandy, William S.
Letter from William S. Grandy to his uncle, Haywood S. Bell, July 31, 1842
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Grantham, Virginia and
Grantham, Virginia
conducted by Dallas A. Blanchard
Oral History Interview with Virginia Grantham, March 6, 1985. Interview F-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887
Professor's Grade Book, 1848-1849
5 pages, 5 page images.
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Griffith, Paul and
Griffith, Pauline
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Paul and Pauline Griffith, May 30, 1980. Interview H-0247. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Paul and Pauline Griffith spent their working careers in the Judson Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. They offer an overview on conditions in the mill and how the work changed from the 1920s into the 1970s.
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Gryskiewicz, Stan
conducted by Joseph Mosnier
Oral History Interview with Stan Gryskiewicz, January 15, 1999. Interview S-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Stan Gryskiewicz worked as a psychologist for the Center for Creative Leadership beginning with its inception in 1970. In this interview (the second of two), Gryskiewicz describes the Center's development in creativity leadership programs and marketing, its evolution and gradual globalization from the 1970s into the 1990s, and the role of various leaders of the organization.
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Gryskiewicz, Stan
conducted by Joseph Mosnier
Oral History Interview with Stan Gryskiewicz, November 5, 1998. Interview S-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Stan Gryskiewicz worked as a psychologist for the Center for Creative Leadership from its inception in 1970. In this interview (the first of two), Gryskiewicz describes his background in psychology, his initial duties with the Center during the 1970s, the Center's 1973 managerial reorganization, his perception of various leaders within the Center, and his research in creative leadership development.
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Guion, John Osborne
Letter from John Osborne Guion to his cousin, Theodore Kingsbury, March 13, 1846 (Includes Description of the Boarding House)
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Hall, Dock E.
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Dock Hall recalls his laboring life, focusing on his years as a miner.
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Halliburton, John Wesley, b. 1840
Letter from John Halliburton to Juliet Halliburton, April 22, 1861
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Halliburton, John Wesley, b. 1840
Letter from John Wesley Halliburton to his second cousin and fiancée, Juliet Halliburton, March 11, 1861
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Ham, Roy
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Roy Ham, 1977. Interview H-0123-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Hamilton, Grace Towns
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Grace Towns Hamilton, July 19, 1974. Interview G-0026. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Grace Towns Hamilton was raised in Atlanta, where both of her parents were involved in community service and issues of social justice. Following family tradition, Hamilton was an active participant in the YWCA during the 1920s, and during the 1940s and 1950s she was the director for Atlanta's Urban League. She describes her work with these organizations, focusing on issues of segregation, education, voter registration, and housing.
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Hanks, Barbara
conducted by Patrick Huber
Oral History Interview with Barbara Hanks, August 10, 1994. Interview K-0098. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Barbara Hanks remembers her career at the White Furniture Company and the effects of the company's closing on her community in Mebane, NC.
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Hardin, Alice Grogan
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Alice Grogan Hardin, May 2, 1980. Interview H-0248. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Alice Grogan Hardin remembers her early years in the rural Greenville County, SC, on the farm and at the mill.
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Hardin, Paul
conducted by Donald Mathews
Oral History Interview with Paul Hardin Jr., December 8, 1989. Interview C-0071. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Bishop Paul Hardin helped bring about racial integration of the United Methodist denomination in the 1960s. He recalls several points in his long ministry career when white and black pastors opposed his efforts to move ministers to other districts, accept church members of other races, and dissolve the Black Methodist district. Supportive church members helped him withstand criticism of his personal stance, even when he faced pressure from conservative ministers on one side and Martin Luther King on the other.
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Hargett, Edna Y.
conducted by Jim Leloudis
Oral History Interview with Edna Y. Hargett, July 19, 1979. Interview H-0163. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Edna Yandell Hargett describes life and work in North Charlotte, a mill village in Charlotte, North Carolina. Focusing primarily on the 1920s through the 1940s, Hargett discusses her work as a weaver in North Charlotte textile mills. In addition, she explains in detail how textile mill workers functioned like "one big family" both at work and in the community.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, April 10, 1795
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, August 13, 1795
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, July 21, 1795
5 pages, 6 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Harris to James Hogg, September 1, 1796
5 pages, 6 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles W. Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, November 12, 1795
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Wilson Harris to John C. Otto, June 1, 1796
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Wilson Harris to Joseph Caldwell, July 24, 1796
9 pages, 10 page images.
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Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804
Letter from Charles Wilson Harris to Joseph Caldwell, September 5, 1796
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Harris, John
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with John Harris, September 5, 2002. Interview R-0185. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Harris, longtime cab driver and businessman in Greensboro, NC, describes his community in the context of race and redevelopment.
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Harris, L. Worth
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with L. Worth Harris, June 11, 1980. Interview H-0164. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
L. Worth Harris discusses the trucking company he started in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 1930s.
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Harrison, Burton N.
Letter, February 11, 1865 (In Which Burton N. Harrison, Personal Secretary to Jefferson Davis, Encloses Davis' Autograph)
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Henry Harrisse's Memorial to the Trustees, September 29, 1856
16 pages, 17 page images.
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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Key and Appendix to Henry Harrisse's Memorial of September 29 and Another Postscript, October 15, 1856
19 pages, 22 page images.
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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Letter from Henry Harrisse to Governor Thomas Bragg, October 15, 1856
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Letter from Henry Harrisse to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, October 9, 1856 [Containing a Postscript to the Memorial of September 29, 1856]
9 pages, 10 page images.
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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Letter from Henry Harrisse to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 27, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Hart, Robert D.
Letter from Robert. D. Hart to Charles Manly, December 10, 1860
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Harvell, Evelyn Gosnell
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, May 27, 1980. Interview H-0250. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Evelyn Gosnell Harvell recalls growing up on a South Carolina farm and the more than three decades she spent as a weaver in a textile mill.
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Hassell, C. B.
Letter from Cushings B. Hassell to Charles Manly, June 12, 1867
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Hassell, C. B.
Letter from Cushings B. Hassell to the Board of Trustees, December 4, 1860
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Hatcher, Jean Cole
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Jean Cole Hatcher, June 13, 1980. Interview H-0165. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jean Cole Hatcher became president of Cole Manufacturing Company, her family's business, in 1953. Hatcher describes her family's history in the Piedmont, the establishment and evolution of the Cole Manufacturing Company in the industry of agricultural technology, and she illuminates life in Charlotte, North Carolina—both for workers and as an economic center of industry.
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Hawke, Jack
conducted by Jonathan Houghton
Oral History Interview with Jack Hawke, June 7, 1990. Interview C-0087. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
North Carolina Republican Chairman Jack Hawke outlines the evolution of the party from the 1960s through the 1980s. Hawke especially focuses on divisions, various leaders, and organization limits and successes within the Republican Party.
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Hawkins, Philemon B.
Letter from Philemon B. Hawkins to his father, John D. Hawkins, February 26, 1841 (Regarding Student Drunkenness)
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Haywood, John, 1755-1827
Letter from John Haywood to Joseph Caldwell, April 25, 1811
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Haywood, John, 1755-1827
Receipt to Stephen Haywood for Hire of Carpenters for Old West, May 26, 1823
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 14, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 28, 1856
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to his wife Mary Ellen Hedrick, October, 22 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to David L. Swain, September 15, 1853
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Governor Thomas Bragg, October 6, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Helms, Jesse
conducted by Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Jesse Helms, March 8, 1974. Interview A-0124. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Senator Jesse Helms describes some of his political positions, and reflects on the state of the Republican Party.
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Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909
Letter from Hinton R. Helper to Benjamin S. Hedrick, October 15, 1856
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his father, Archibald Henderson, from Fort Branch, [February 1865]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his father, Archibald Henderson, September 4, 1862 (In Which He Describes a Student Rebellion)
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his Mother, February 14, 1863
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, April 20, 1862
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, April 24, 1862 (Regarding Civil War News)
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, August 23, 1862 (In Which He Discusses Problem of Conscription)
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, May 15, 1864 (In Which He Discusses His Brother, Leonard, Who was Killed a Few Weeks Later at Cold Harbor)
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, May 21, 1862
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, November 7, 1864 (In Which the Board of Trustees is Protesting Against the Conscription of the Seniors)
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, September 22, 1862 (In Which He Gives Various Reasons Why He Should Join the Army)
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, September 26, 1864
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Henderson, John, fl. 1863
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, September 8, 1863
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, Leonard
Letter from Leonard Henderson to his father, Archibald Henderson, February 1860
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Henderson, Leonard
Letter from Leonard Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, July 26, 1859
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Henderson, Leonard
Letter from Leonard Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, October 16, 1859
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Henderson, Pleasant, 1756-1840
Letter from Major Henderson to Walter Alves, September 3, 1805
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, Pleasant, 1756-1840
Letter from Pleasant Henderson to Walter Alves, July 14, 1799
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Henderson, Pleasant, 1756-1840
Statement of Pleasant Henderson about Completion of Doors and Window Frames for South Building, June 1801
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Henderson, Pleasant, 1756-1840
Statement of Pleasant Henderson Regarding the Number of Bricks Laid for South Building, June 1801
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Henderson, Thomas
conducted by Charles Thompson and Charles Thompson
Oral History Interview with Thomas Henderson, October 28, 1999. Interview K-0228. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Thomas Henderson was born in Brookneal, Virginia, a small, tobacco farming community. He later became a tobacco buyer in Greenville, North Carolina. Focusing on the tobacco industry in the 1930s and 1940s, Henderson explains the establishment of gradation policies for the tobacco industry as a New Deal reform measure; the process of buying and selling tobacco at auction; and changes in tobacco farming.
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Hepburn, Andrew D.
Letter from Andrew D. Hepburn to David L. Swain, [1866-1867] (In Which He Describes the Condition of the University)
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Herring, William Dallas
conducted by Jay Jenkins
Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
William Dallas Herring discusses his rise to membership and tenure on the North Carolina State Board of Education and the struggle to create a community college system.
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Herring, William Dallas
conducted by Jay Jenkins
Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987. Interview C-0035. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
William Dallas Herring, longtime chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education, discusses the ins and outs of education in his state.
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Hicks, Richard
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Richard Hicks, February 1, 1991. Interview M-0023. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Richard Hicks, who in 1991 was the principal of the all-black Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina, describes his job and offers some brief thoughts on the minimal impact of desegregation on his career in education.
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Higgins, Bennie
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Bennie Higgins, December 28, 1990. Interview M-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Longtime North Carolina high school principal Bennie Higgins describes the details of the position and reflects on race in the post-desegregation classroom.
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Hill, George Watts
conducted by James Leutze
Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
George Watts Hill was a prominent business leader in the Durham area during the twentieth century. He offers his perspective on the changing nature of business and its impact on the community. In particular, he describes his business endeavors in such areas as banking, insurance, land development, dairy farming, and public service.
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Hobby, Wilbur
conducted by William 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 on Political Education.
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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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Hollar, Gladys Irene Moser and
Hollar, Glenn
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, February 26, 1980. Interview H-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Gladys Irene Moser Hollar and her husband, Glenn Hollar, share recollections about work and rural life in the early 20th century.
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Holmes, Peter
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with Peter Holmes, April 18, 1991. Interview L-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Peter Holmes served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from 1973 to 1975. In this interview, he discusses the challenges the OCR faced in developing and enforcing guidelines for the desegregation of higher education in southern states.
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Holmes, Theophilus Hunter
Letter from Theophilus Hunter Holmes to David L. Swain, January 21, 1862
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Holt, Nancy
conducted by Frances E. Webb
Oral History Interview with Nancy Holt, October 27, 1985. Interview K-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Nancy Holt, raised in North Carolina's Cane Creek community and a member of the Cane Creek Conservation Authority, discusses the reaction of the community when UNC and the Orange County Water and Sewer Authority attempted to build a reservoir in Cane Creek.
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Hooper, Jerry
Letter from Jerry Hooper to his Master, October 19, 1861
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Hooper, Jerry
Minutes of the Board of Trustees Copied by Jerry Hooper (a Slave) for his Master, October 19, 1861
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Hooper, William, 1792-1876
Address of William C. Hooper to the Dialectic Society, 1836 or 1837
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Hooper, William, 1792-1876
Letter from William Hooper to the Committee of Appointment, January 27, 1834
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Hooper, William, 1792-1876
Letter from William Hooper to the Honorable Committee of Appointment, [1818?]
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Hooper, William, 1792-1876
William Hooper's Critique of Instruction at the University of North Carolina, December 19, 1833
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Hopkins, Samuel
Letter from Samuel Hopkins to John Haywood, November 11, 1799
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Hopkins, Samuel,
Cain, William,
Ray, David,
Thompson, Henry, and
Lytle, William
Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794
1 pages, 1 page images.
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How, Thomas Y.
Letter from Thomas Y. How to Joseph Caldwell, December 27, 1796 :
5 pages, 6 page images.
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Howorth, Lucy Somerville
conducted by Constance Myers
Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Born in 1895, Lucy Somerville Howorth was born and raised in Mississippi. An activist for women's rights from an early age, Howorth was actively involved in the campaign for women's suffrage before she became a lawyer, a judge, and a politician. She describes her involvement in numerous women's organizations, her perceptions of the women who led those organizations, and their evolution over the years.
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Hoyman, Scott
conducted by Carolyn Ashbaugh and Dan McCurry
Oral History Interview with Scott Hoyman, Fall 1973. Interview E-0009. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Hoyman, Scott
conducted by William 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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Jacobs, Vickie
conducted by Joyce Blackwell-Johnson
Oral History Interview with Vickie Jacobs, December 11, 1993. Interview K-0100. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jessup, John
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with John Jessup, January 11, 1991. Interview M-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Jessup discusses his employment as the principal of a North Carolina public school and as an administrator in the Winston-Salem public schools. He describes the challenges he faced as an African American as well as the changes brought about by desegregation.
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Johnson, Charles
conducted by Goldie F. Wells and Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Charles Johnson, December 29, 1990. Interview M-0025. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Black principal Charles Johnson describes the challenges of his profession and his extra effort to maintain discipline in a post-desegregation environment.
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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 Griffis, 1900-1989
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis 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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Johnson, Guy B.
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Guy B. Johnson, December 16, 1974. Interview B-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Dr. Guy B. Johnson was a UNC sociology professor and author. This interview focuses on his work as the first executive director of the Southern Regional Council (SRC) and as a member of the North Carolina Committee for Interracial Cooperation. Johnson discusses the role that women and church groups played in the Interracial Commission, and he describes the debate over issues such as segregation among SRC members. He also describes the conflict between SRC leaders and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. The interview ends with Johnson's analysis of post-war economic issues and foreign politics in relation to the Southern Conference and SRC.
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Johnson, Junior
conducted by Pete Daniel
Oral History Interview with Junior Johnson, June 4, 1988. Interview C-0053. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Johnson, Lyman
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Lyman Johnson, July 12, 1990. Interview A-0351. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Charles M.
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Charles M. Jones, July 21, 1990. Interview A-0335. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Edmund
Letter from Edmund Jones to his Father Edmund W. Jones, July 29, 1867
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Jones, Edmund
Letter from Edmund Jones to his father, Edmund W. Jones, August 26, 1867 (In Which He Comments on the University's Debts)
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Jones, Henry Francis
Henry Francis Jones's Journal on Student Life, September 14, 1857 — April 6, 1858
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Jones, Ivey C.
conducted by Jeff Cowie
Oral History Interview with Ivey C. Jones, January 18, 1994. Interview K-0101. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Jones, Johnnie
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Johnnie Jones, August 27, 1976. Interview H-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Johnnie Jones remembers his fifty-year career at the Pomona Terra Cotta Factory in Greensboro, N.C.
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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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Jones, Louise Riggsbee
conducted by Mary Frederickson and Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Louise Riggsbee 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 Riggsbee
conducted by Mary Frederickson
Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee 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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Jones, William H.,
Mallett, Edward J.,
Scales, James P.,
Iredell, Samuel Tredwell, and
Dortch, William Baskerville, 1828-1882
Petition of a Committee of Students for the Erection of a Building, September 1, 1848
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Jones, William Watts
Letter from William Watts Jones to Robert Williams, March 17, 1818
1 pages, 2 page images.
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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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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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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, North Carolina, and their careers making gloves.
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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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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.
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Lake, I. Beverly
conducted by Charles Dunn
Oral History Interview with I. Beverly Lake, September 8, 1987. Interview C-0043. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Landrieu, Moon
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Moon Landrieu, January 11, 1974. Interview A-0089. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Ledford, John
conducted by Rob Amberg
Oral History Interview with John Ledford, January 3, 2001. Interview K-0251. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Ledford, the sheriff of Madison County, NC, describes the effects of economic growth on his job and his community.
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Lee, James, fl. 1850
Letter from James Lee, Jr. to Major G. A. Henry, October 20, 1850
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Lewis, Catherine Ann, 1809-1879
Letter from Catherine Ann Battle Lewis to Emma Speight, May 5, 1865
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Lewis, Catherine Ann, 1809-1879
Letter from Catherine Battle Lewis to William Figures Lewis, January 23, 1868
5 pages, 5 page images.
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Lewis, John
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Lewis, Richard Henry
Letter from Richard Henry Lewis to his uncle, June 6, 1852
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Lewis, William Figures
Letter from William F. Lewis to his sister, Emma Lewis Speight, September 19, 1841 [Containing a Description of the Shooting of a Student]
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Little, Arthur
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Arthur Little, December 14, 1979. Interview H-0132. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Arthur Little describes glove-making from his perspective as the owner of a glove mill in Newton, NC.
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Logan, Robert
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Robert Logan, December 28, 1990. Interview M-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Robert Logan, principal of Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, NC, reflects on the details of his job and the challenge of race in the post-desegregation atmosphere.
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London, John Rutherford, b. 1786
Letter from John London to Ebenezer Pettigrew, September 29, 1799
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Long, Patricia
conducted by Sherry Honeycutt
Oral History Interview with Patricia Long, November 14, 1996. Interview G-0215. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Patricia Long became an active member of Pullen Baptist Church, known for its progressive social activism, during the late 1980s. She describes how her involvement with Pullen allowed her to come to terms with her own lesbian sexuality and details the process by which Pullen decided to sanction holy unions between gay and lesbian couples.
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Lowe, Charles M.
conducted by Bill Moye
Oral History Interview with Charles M. Lowe, March 20, 1975. Interview B-0069. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Longtime Charlotte politician Charles Lowe discusses the county-city consolidation issue in Charlotte, NC, and offers his thoughts on the broad, impersonal trends that dominate the political process.
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Lucas, Joseph Blount
Joseph B. Lucas's Account of the Burning of the Belfry, August 11, 1856
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, August 4, 1974. Interview G-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Southern writer, academic, and social activist Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin describes growing up in a family where the "Lost Cause" was heralded and her subsequent work towards promoting causes of social justice. In so doing, Lumpkin describes her work with the YWCA, her education, her career in academe, and her books The Making of a Southerner and South in Progress.
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Lupton, Carroll
conducted by Mary Murphy
Oral History Interview with Carroll Lupton, April 2, 1980. Interview H-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
North Carolina doctor Carroll Lupton recalls his days practicing medicine in the mill town of Burlington, North Carolina. Focusing primarily on the 1930s, Lupton talks about providing medical care to poor mill workers. Lupton emphasizes medical treatment for pregnant women, treatment of venereal disease, and popular medical remedies of the day.
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Lynch, William Bingham
Address of William Bingham Lynch to the Dialectic Society, [between 1855 and 1859]
10 pages, 10 page images.
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MacLachlan, Emily S.
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Emily S. MacLachlan, July 16, 1974. Interview G-0038. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Emily S. MacLachlan grew up in the early 20th century in Jackson, Mississippi, in a family that advocated relatively progressive ideas about race. MacLachlan describes her mother's efforts to balance family life with social activism (specifically with the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching), her own academic endeavors, and her advocacy of civil rights and radical politics during the 1930s.
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Magness, Leroy
conducted by Michelle Markey
Oral History Interview with Leroy Magness, March 27, 1999. Interview K-0438. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Leroy Magness describes his belief in avoiding conflict, and how that belief shaped his response to the civil rights movement.
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Mallet, Charles Peter, 1792-1873
Letter from Charles P. Mallet to Henry A. London, April 30, 1865
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Mallet, Charles Peter, 1792-1873
Letter from Charles P. Mallet to His Son, May 1, 1865
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mallett, Peter, 1825-1906?
Letter from Peter Mallett to David L. Swain, November 6, 1863
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, February 26, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, February 5, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, October 14, 1856
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, October 18, 1856
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, October 4, 1856
8 pages, 9 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, October 8, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, September 25, 1856
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Martin, William James
Letter from Professor William J. Martin to Charles Phillips, December 12, 1864
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Martin, William James
Letter from Professor William J. Martin to David L. Swain, July 21, 1862
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Martin, William James
Letter from Professor William J. Martin to Governor Jonathan Worth, July 13, 1867
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Martin, William James
Letter from Professor William J. Martin to the Board of Trustees, July 13, 1867
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Martin, William James
Letter from Professor William J. Martin to the Board of Trustees, November 11, 1861 (In Which He Requests a Leave of Absence to Join the Army)
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Mask, J. W.
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with J. W. Mask, February 15, 1991. Interview M-0013. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
J. W. Mask describes his stewardship of a segregated black high school and his struggle to provide his students with adequate resources.
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Mason, James B.
Letter from James B. Mason to R. W. Lassiter, September 3, 1873
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Matthews, Gwendolyn
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with Gwendolyn Matthews, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0654. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
In 1962, Gwendolyn Matthews was one of five African American students to integrate Cary High School in North Carolina. In this interview, she describes her experiences in the integration process, emphasizing the hostility of white students and teachers. In addition, she speaks more broadly about segregation and integration in Cary and Raleigh.
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Maverick, William H.
Letter from William H. Maverick to his mother, Mary Ann Adams Maverick, September 9, 1867
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Maverick, William H.
Letter from William H. Maverick to his mother, November 19, 1866
4 pages, 4 page images.
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McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius, 1746-1811
Letter from Samuel E. McCorkle to John Haywood, December 20, 1799
3 pages, 4 page images.
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McGill, Eula
conducted by Lewis Lipsitz
Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, December 12, 1974. Interview G-0039. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Life-long textile worker Eula McGill shares her thoughts on the benefits of Alabama textile unions.
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McGill, Eula
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Eula McGill grew up in Sugar Valley, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. Raised in a working class family, McGill had to leave school because of her family's economic hardships and began to work in a textile mill as a spinner at the age of 14. By the late 1920s, McGill had moved to Alabama, where she became a leader in the labor movement in Selma. Throughout the Great Depression, McGill primarily worked as a labor organizer, first for the Women's Trade Union League and later for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union.
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McGill, Eula
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, September 5, 1976. Interview G-0040-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Southern labor organizer Eula McGill explains her views on leadership in the labor movement and the role of workers' education. After rising through the ranks of the labor movement during the Great Depression, McGill continued to work actively to organize workers from the 1940s to the 1970s. She describes in detail various labor campaigns and strikes in the South, as well as her work with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and other labor organizations.
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McKay, Martha C.
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom and Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Martha C. McKay, June 13, 1989. Interview C-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Martha McKay was actively involved in student politics at the University of North Carolina before her graduation with a degree in economics in 1941. During those years, she formed a friendship with Terry Sanford—future North Carolina state senator, United States senator, and governor, and president of Duke University—and later worked for his gubernatorial campaign. Here, McKay describes her active involvement in Sanford's gubernatorial campaign, the Democratic Party, and the women's rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s. She discusses her role as a founding member of the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus, the need for effective leadership and organization for women's rights, and the progress women had made in politics.
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McKay, Martha C.
conducted by Belinda Riggsbee
Oral History Interview with Martha C. McKay, March 29, 1974. Interview A-0324. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Martha McKay, women's rights activist and Democratic Party member, describes the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1973. Focusing on the role of the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus in lobbying for ratification of the amendment, McKay describes how the opposition successfully organized to defeat the amendment and how that defeat affected the NCWPC.
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McKimmon, Arthur
Letter from Arthur McKimmon to Sophie Manly, November 15, 1859
5 pages, 6 page images.
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McKimmon, Arthur
Letter from Arthur McKimmon to Sophie Manly, November 20, 1859
4 pages, 4 page images.
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McKimmon, Arthur
Letter from Arthur McKimmon to Sophie Manly, October 25, 1859
5 pages, 5 page images.
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McMath, Sidney S.
conducted by John Egerton
Oral History Interview with Sidney S. McMath, September 8, 1990. Interview A-0352. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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McNab, James Graham
Address of James Graham McNab, March 1857
8 pages, 8 page images.
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McPheeters, William, 1778-1842
Letter from William McPheeters to Marcellus McPheeters, August 10, 1837
2 pages, 2 page images.
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McPheeters, William, 1778-1842
List of Payments by William McPheeters, Agent of the Executive Committee, to Thomas A. Waitt, [August 18-19, 1837]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Meyers, Flake and
Meyers, Nellie
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Flake and Nellie Meyers, August 11, 1979. Interview H-0133. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Michaux, H. M.
conducted by Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with H. M. Michaux, November 20, 1974. Interview A-0135. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Mickle, Andrew
Letter from Andrew Mickle to Paul Cameron, March 22, 1875
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Miller, Dora Scott
conducted by Beverly Jones
Oral History Interview with Dora Scott Miller, June 6, 1979. Interview H-0211. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Dora Scott Miller reflects on the changes in tobacco factory work from the perspective of an African American woman.
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Mills, Carl A.
conducted by Peggy Van Scoyoc
Oral History Interview with Carl A. Mills Jr., June 30, 1999. Interview K-0182. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Carl A. Mills Jr., principal of Cary High School during its desegregation, recalls a relatively easy process of integration.
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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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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Elisha Mitchell's Plan of the Lots on the Avenue, [1851]
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Elisha Mitchell's Private Notebook, 1818-1847 [Containing Miscellaneous Comments on Mathematics, Musicology, Electricity, Natural Sciences, and History and Personal Accounts and Notes on Readings and Letters Received]
5 pages, 5 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Charles Manly, December 19, 1836
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Charles Manly, December 27, 1849
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Charles Manly, February 3, 1849
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Charles Manly, July 5, 1834
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Charles Manly, September 11, 1840
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Duncan Cameron, December 28, 1835
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 1836
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Thomas A. Waitt, January 2, 1836
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Thomas Ruffin, February 2, 1843
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Petition of Elisha Mitchell Requesting a Leave of Absence, July 31, 1853
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Report of the Bursar (Elisha Mitchell), May 27, 1840
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mitchell, Elisha,
Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887, and
Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Account for Improvement of College Grounds, 1848
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Mitchell, James Billingslea, 1844-1891
Letter from J. B. Mitchell to Ruffin H. Thomson, May 29, 1866
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Moore, Augustus
Augustus Moore's Notes on a Course of Lectures Delivered at the University of North Carolina by Denison Olmsted, Volume 4, 1820
16 pages, 16 page images.
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Moore, Richard H.
conducted by Leda Hartman
Oral History Interview with Richard H. Moore, August 2, 2002. Interview K-0598. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
North Carolina State Treasurer and former Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety Richard Moore describes the impact of Hurricane Floyd (1999) and the state government's response to the crisis. Moore describes the evolution of the Division of Emergency Management during his term and what he sees as its increasing effectiveness in responding to natural disasters.
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Moore, Vennie
conducted by Brian Campbell and Laura Hajar
Oral History Interview with Vennie Moore, February 24, 1999. Interview K-0439. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Vennie Moore recalls her childhood in segregated Davidson, North Carolina.
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Morehead, James Turner, 1838-1919
Address of James Turner Morehead, November 21, 1818
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Morris, Naomi Elizabeth
conducted by Pat Devine
Oral History Interview with Naomi Elizabeth Morris, November 11 and 16, 1982, and March 29, 1983. Interview B-0050. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Morton, Nelle
conducted by Dallas A. Blanchard
Oral History Interview with Nelle Morton, June 29, 1983. Interview F-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Moseley, William D.
Letter from William D. Moseley to Elisha Mitchell, August 15, 1853
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Mullins, William Sidney, 1824-1878
Excerpts from the Diary of William S. Mullins, July 29 and 30, 1841
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Mullins, William Sidney, 1824-1878
Letter from William Sidney Mullins to P. Henry Winston, September 23, 1840
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Murphey, Archibald D. (Archibald De Bow), 1777-1832
Archibald D. Murphey's Plan of Education, December 1818
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Murphy, William Patrick
conducted by Sean Devereux
Oral History Interview with William Patrick Murphy, January 17, 1978. Interview B-0043. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Murray, Zelma Montgomery
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Zelma Montgomery Murray, March 4, 1976. Interview H-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
A couple recalls living and working in the difficult conditions of North Carolina's cotton mill towns.
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Palm, Nancy
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Nancy Palm, December 16, 1974. Interview A-0194. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Parker, Margaret Skinner
conducted by W. Weldon Huske
Oral History Interview with Margaret Skinner Parker, March 7, 1976. Interview H-0278. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Margaret Skinner Parker recalls life in the mill town of Cooleemee, North Carolina, in the first half of the twentieth century, sharing recollections of fun and financial struggle.
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Patterson, James
James Patterson's Memorial to the Building Commissioners, December 25, 1793
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Patterson, James
James Patterson's Proposals for the Steward's House, [1793]
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Patterson, James
Letter from James Patterson to John Haywood, August 18, 1795
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pauley, Frances
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Frances Pauley, July 18, 1974. Interview G-0046. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Frances Pauley was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. An advocate of poor people and of racial integration, Pauley served as president of the Georgia League of Women Voters in the 1940s and 1950s, where she focused specifically on integration of public schools. In 1960, she became director of the Georgia Council on Human Relations and worked within the civil rights movement to promote African American leadership and interracial organizations.
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Pearsall, Elizabeth
conducted by Walter Campbell
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Pearsall, May 25, 1988. Interview C-0056. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Pearson, Conrad Odell
conducted by Walter Weare
Oral History Interview with Conrad Odell Pearson, April 18, 1979. Interview H-0218. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Conrad Odell Pearson grew up in Durham, North Carolina. After obtaining his law degree at Howard Law School in the early 1930s, Pearson returned to Durham, where he became actively involved in legal struggles against segregation in higher education. In this interview, he describes his participation in various civil rights activities, his perception of African American leaders James Shepherd and C. C. Spaulding, and race relations in Durham.
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Pearson, William S. (William Simpson), 1849-1920,
Means, Paul Barringer, 1845-1911, and
McNeill, Thomas A.
Student Letter to David L. Swain About His Leaving the University, June 6, 1868
1 pages, 1 page images.
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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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Percival, William and
Grant, John, ca. 1817-?
Letter from William Percival and John Grant to the Building Committee, January 8, 1858
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Percival, William
Letter from William Percival to William A. Graham, September 5, 1859
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Perkel, George
conducted by Patricia Raub
Oral History Interview with George Perkel, May 27, 1986. Interview H-0281. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
George Perkel evaluates the failure of unions in the post-World War II South.
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Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart, 1816-1873
Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, August 19, 1833
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart, 1816-1873
Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, December 10, 1834
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart, 1816-1873
Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, January 22, 1834
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart, 1816-1873
Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, November 7, 1835
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to David L. Swain, August 16, 1847
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, April 19, 1844
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, February 14, 1845
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, February 21, 1847
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, February 8, 1846
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, January 13, 1844
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to his brother Charles Pettigrew, May 5, 1844
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799 and
Pettigrew, Ebenezer, 1783-1848
Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, April 5, 1795
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799 and
Pettigrew, Ebenezer, 1783-1848
Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, February 23, 1795
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799
Letter from John Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, April 12, 1796
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799
Letter from John Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, March 22, 1797
4 pages, 4 page images.
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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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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Accounts for Apparatus procured for Natural Philosophy Department, February 17, 1852
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter from Charles Phillips to David L. Swain, August 28, 1853
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter from Charles Phillips to David L. Swain, January 15, 1853
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter from Charles Phillips to John Kimberly, July 8, 1875
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter from Charles Phillips to Kemp P. Battle, August 12, 1867
10 pages, 10 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter from Charles Phillips to Kemp P. Battle, September 20, 1865
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Letter written by Charles Phillips, November 23, 1864
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
"A President's Address," by Charles Phillips, August 1840
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889
Program for the School of Science as Applied to the Arts, November 25, 1853
9 pages, 9 page images.
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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889 and
Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Letter from Charles Phillips and Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to David L. Swain, October 13, 1853
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Phillips, James, 1792-1867
James Phillips's Lecture Notes, [18--]
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Phillips, James, 1792-1867
Letter from James Phillips to Charles Manly, June 28, 1834
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Phillips, Samuel F.
Address by Samuel F. Phillips for the Dialectic Society, January 1841
7 pages, 8 page images.
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Phok, Kong
conducted by Barbara Lau
Oral History Interview with Kong Phok, December 19, 2000. Interview K-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Cambodian-American Kong Phok describes his experiences at Guilford Mills in Greensboro, NC.
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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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Pinkard, Thomas C.
Letter from Thomas C. Pinkard (at Yale) to James Johnston Pettigrew, October 7, 1846
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Polk, William, 1758-1834
Letter from William Polk to Joseph Caldwell, May 16, 1803
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Polk, William, 1758-1834
Letter from William Polk to Joseph Caldwell, September 4, 1805
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Polk, William, 1758-1834
William Polk's Summary of a Meeting of the Trustees, August 27, 1805
8 pages, 8 page images.
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Pollitzer, Mabel
conducted by Constance Myers
Oral History Interview with Mabel Pollitzer, June 16, 1974. Interview G-0047-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Mabel Pollitzer describes her involvement in the women's suffrage movement in Charleston, South Carolina. In particular, Pollitzer describes the leadership role of Susan Pringle Frost within the movement, the split between the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party in the 1910s, and her perception of various leaders within the movement in South Carolina.
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Pollitzer, Mabel
conducted by Constance Myers
Oral History Interview with Mabel Pollitzer, September 19, 1973. Interview G-0047-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Mabel Pollitzer was born Charleston, South Carolina, in 1885. After graduating from Columbia University in 1906, she returned to Charleston to teach biology at Memminger, an all-girls school. Pollitzer describes her involvement in the women's suffrage movement, her perception of politicians and women's rights leaders, and her civic work within the community of Charleston.
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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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Pool, Solomon, 1832-1901
Announcement of the Opening of the University Session, by Solomon Pool on August 18, 1869, July 1, 1869
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Pool, Solomon, 1832-1901
Letter from Solomon Pool to Charles C. Pool, January 23, 1868
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Pool, Solomon, 1832-1901
Letter from Solomon Pool to the Board of Trustees, May 5, 1866
2 pages, 4 page images.
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Pritchett, Laurie
conducted by James Reston
Oral History Interview with Laurie Pritchett, April 23, 1976. Interview B-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Laurie Pritchett, who served as a police chief in Albany, Georgia, for seven years, describes his role in the civil rights movement in that city. He encouraged a moderate response to large demonstrations in the 1960s, a tactic that prevented the negative publicity brought about by brutal police reaction to marches in other towns in the Deep South.
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Rankin, Edward L.
conducted by Jay Jenkins
Oral History Interview with Edward L. Rankin, August 20, 1987. Interview C-0044. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Edward L. Rankin served as private secretary to North Carolina Governors William Umstead (1952-1954) and Luther Hodges (1954-1961). In this interview he describes their political leadership, the Pearsall Plan, and the spectrum of political responses to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Raper, Arthur
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Arthur Raper, January 30, 1974. Interview B-0009-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Southern sociologist and civil rights activist Arthur Raper discusses his interactions with Jessie Daniel Ames and the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching during his tenure as the research director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (1926-1939). Raper describes Ames as both an effective and contentious leader.
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Ray, Geraldine
conducted by Kelly Navies
Oral History Interview with Geraldine Ray, September 13, 1977. Interview R-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Geraldine Ray has lived in Barnardsville, North Carolina, nearly her entire life. In this interview, she describes growing up on her family's farm, attending all-black schools, and caring for sick relatives and friends. She describes racial segregation as a problem that seemed less difficult to avoid than segregation and prejudice between local black residents. Geraldine learned several essential skills of farm life from her grandmother and then used them to support the family through illness. The interview concludes with a description of her husband—a childhood friend—and how they chose to raise their children.
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Ray, Maggie W.
conducted by Pamela Grundy
Oral History Interview with Maggie W. Ray, November 9, 2000. Interview K-0825. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Maggie Ray, teacher at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, reflects on the legacies of desegregation.
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Riley, Robert
conducted by Chris Stewart
Oral History Interview with Robert Riley, February 1, 1994. Interview K-0106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Robert Riley Sr. describes his thirty-one years at the White Furniture plant in Mebane, North Carolina, a tenure that ended with the plant's closing in 1993.
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Rivera, Alexander M.
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with Alexander M. Rivera, February 1, 2002. Interview C-0298. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
African American photojournalist Alexander M. Rivera describes the civil rights movement and its aftermath. In particular, he describes some of his photographs, as well as the impact of the Brown decision (and the demise of legal segregation) on African American businesses and African American schools, including North Carolina Central College.
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Rivera, Alexander M.
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with Alexander M. Rivera, November 30, 2001. Interview C-0297. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
African American photojournalist Alexander M. Rivera describes the civil rights movement from his perspective as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Courier. He focuses on the nature of race relations and racial violence and describes the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision on the changing social landscape.
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Rives, James P.
Letter from James P. Rives to Seth, September 8, 1867
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Robertson, Mary
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Mary Robertson, August 13, 1979. Interview H-0288. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Mary Robertson offers an insider's view of the organized labor movement in western North Carolina.
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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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Robinson, Thomas J.
Debater's Speech of Thomas J. Robinson, 1848
9 pages, 11 page images.
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Rogers, John
Letter from John Rogers to John Haywood, August 20, 1800
2 pages, 2 page images.
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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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Rohrer, Grace Jemison
conducted by Kathryn Nasstrom
Oral History Interview with Grace Jemison Rohrer, March 16, 1989. Interview C-0069. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Born in 1924, Grace Jemison Rohrer eventually settled in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her family. In the 1960s she became involved in organizing the Republican Party in Forsyth County and she joined forces with Democratic women in order to establish the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus in 1971. In 1973, Governor James Holshouser appointed her to serve as the Secretary of Cultural Resources. Throughout the 1970s, Rohrer advocated for women to have a more active role in politics, and she actively supported the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Roodenko, Igal
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Jerry Wingate
Oral History Interview with Igal Roodenko, April 11, 1974. Interview B-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Igal Roodenko came of age during the 1930s and became increasingly involved in leftist politics during those years. During World War II he embraced philosophies of non-violence and pacifism and worked in a camp for conscientious objectors during the conflict. He became a member of CORE during its formative years and participated in the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, an interracial endeavor to test segregation policies on buses in the South.
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Roseborough, Rufus Milton
Address of Rufus M. Rosebrough for the Dialectic Society, February 1832
6 pages, 7 page images.
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Rounsaville, Peter King, 1824-1867
Valedictory Speech of Peter King Rounsaville, June 5, 1844
15 pages, 16 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, [Nov.-Dec.] 1842 [Containing a request that his father let him leave college in order to go to sea and make it his profession]
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, April 1, 1841
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, April 1841
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, August 1841
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, August 8, 1842
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, August 8,1841
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, February 20, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, Jan.uary 27, 1843 [Containing a Description of a Disturbance on Campus]
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, January 13, 1844
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, January 1841
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, January 29, 1842
2 pages, 3 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, July 18, 1842
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, July 24, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, March 1841
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, May 11, 1841
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, September 6, 1843
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas
Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, January 11, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Ruffin, Thomas Jr.
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin, February 21, 1842
2 pages, 3 page images.
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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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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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Salley, Eulalie
conducted by Constance Myers
Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley, September 15, 1973. Interview G-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Eulalie Salley, a suffragist from South Carolina, describes the effort of American suffragists to bring about the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; the issues that mobilized male and female supporters of women's suffrage; the important leaders in the movement; and the issues facing women today.
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Sampson, Robert R.
conducted by Angela Hornsby
Oral History Interview with Robert R. Sampson, October 9, 2002. Interview R-0182. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pharmacist Robert Sampson describes how urban renewal efforts dispersed a thriving black business community in Greensboro, NC.
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Samuel Hopkins?
Plan of President's House, January 25, 1794
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Sanford, Terry
conducted by Walter DeVries and Jack Bass
Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, [date unknown]. Interview A-0140. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Sanford, Terry
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, August 20 and 21, 1976. Interview A-0328-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Terry Sanford was a North Carolina governor and Democratic U.S. Senator. This interview describes his political career since 1960, including his unsuccessful presidential run and his term as president of Duke University.
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Sanford, Terry
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, December 16 and 18, 1986. Interview C-0038. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Terry Sanford, a Democratic politician who served as a state senator, governor, and US Senator in North Carolina and held the presidency at Duke University, reflects on his political career.
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Sanford, Terry
conducted by Cindy Cheatham
Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, December 18, 1990. Interview L-0050. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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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, North Carolina.
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Scott, Blanche
conducted by Beverly Jones
Oral History Interview with Blanche Scott, July 11, 1979. Interview H-0229. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Blanche Scott describes her careers as a tobacco factory worker and beautician in Durham, NC.
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Scott, Robert W. (Bob)
conducted by William Link
Oral History Interview with Robert W. (Bob) Scott, April 4, 1990. Interview L-0193. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Former Governor Robert W. Scott discusses the consolidation of the University system during his administration, focusing on the leadership of William Friday and Cameron Scott and the political maneuvering that characterized the process. In addition, he reflects on his accomplishments as governor, expressing pride in his ability to significantly reduce racial unrest during a tumultuous era.
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Scott, Robert W. (Bob)
conducted by Karl Campbell
Oral History Interview with Robert W. (Bob) Scott, September 18, 1986. Interview C-0036. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Robert W. (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
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Seeman, Ernest
conducted by Mimi Conway
Oral History Interview with Ernest Seeman, February 13, 1976. Interview B-0012. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Letter from William T. Sherman to Zebulon B. Vance, April 12, 1865
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Sherwood, M. S.
Letter from M. S. Sherwood to His Nephew Benjamin S. Hedrick, August 20, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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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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Shoemaker, Mattie and
Edmonds, Mildred Shoemaker
conducted by Mary Murphy
Oral History Interview with Mattie Shoemaker and Mildred Shoemaker Edmonds, March 23, 1979. Interview H-0046. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Sisters Mattie Shoemaker and Mildred Shoemaker Edmonds discuss their experiences at a textile mill in Burlington, NC.
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Shuping, Orlin P.
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with Orlin P. Shuping, June 15, 1975. Interview H-0290. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Orlin P. Shuping describes running a mill in Rowan County, NC.
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Shute, John Raymond
conducted by Wayne Durrill
Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Raymond Shute Jr. looks back on a century of growth in Union County, North Carolina. For years active in politics there, he shares his considerable knowledge about the agricultural and industrial development in the area.
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Siceloff, Elizabeth,
Siceloff, Elizabeth,
Siceloff, Courtney, and
Siceloff, Courtney
conducted by Dallas A. Blanchard
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth and Courtney Siceloff, July 8, 1985. Interview F-0039. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Sigmon, Murphy Yomen
conducted by Patty Dilley
Oral History Interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979. Interview H-0142. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Murphy Yomen Sigmon reflects on a working life, most of which he spent in a cotton mill in Hickory, NC.
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Simkins, George
conducted by Karen Kruse Thomas
Oral History Interview with George Simkins, April 6, 1997. Interview R-0018. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Dentist George Simkins describes his efforts to desegregate hospitals and other facilities in Greensboro, NC.
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Simkins, Modjeska
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
African American civil rights activist Modjeska Simkins describes her upbringing in a prosperous family during the early twentieth century. She charts her work with the Tuberculosis Association, the NAACP, and the Richland County Citizens' Committee. Throughout the interview, Simkins offers telling anecdotes about racial tensions in South Carolina, the inner workings of civil rights organizations, and relationships between leaders of the movement.
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Simkins, Modjeska
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Modjeska Simkins describes growing up in a prosperous African American family, going to school, and her thoughts on "color consciousness" during her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition, she discusses her involvement in the South Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation and other race organizations beginning in the 1920s, her thoughts on women's unique capabilities as leaders of social justice movements, and the nature of racial tension in the South.
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Slade, James
conducted by Karen Kruse Thomas
Oral History Interview with James Slade, February 23, 1997. Interview R-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pediatrician James Slade and his wife, Catherine, discuss their experience of race and medicine in Edenton, NC.
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Slifkin, Miriam
conducted by Lynne Degitz
Oral History Interview with Miriam Slifkin, March 24, 1995. Interview G-0175. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Smith, Clyde
conducted by Reid McGlamery
Oral History Interview with Clyde Smith, March 17, 1999. Interview K-0443. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Clyde Smith recalls the tensions that integration introduced to athletics at North Carolina's Lincolnton High School.
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Smith, Hildreth Hosea
Proposal of a New Scheme of Study, November 21, 1867
4 pages, 6 page images.
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Snipes, John W.
conducted by Brent Glass
Oral History Interview with John W. Snipes, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0098-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
John Wesley Snipes recalls his childhood in rural Chatham County, NC, in the early twentieth century.
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Spain, Ray
conducted by Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Ray Spain, January 26, 1990. Interview M-0029. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Ray Spain, the principal of Bertie High School at the time of this interview, describes his management style and the demands of his job.
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Speight, Richard Harrison
Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his Cousin, August 31, 1867
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Speight, Richard Harrison
Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his mother, Emma Speight, August 22, 1867
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Speight, Richard Harrison
Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his mother, September 25,1867
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, August 12, 1866 (In Which She Describes the University Opening with 100 Students)
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, January 7, 1866 (In Which She Visits the Campus and Laments Over the Changes)
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, June 7, 1866 (In Which She Describes Commencement Day with Only Three Seniors)
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, October 14, 1865 (In Which She Writes About the Difficulties the University Faces)
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer [to Ellen Caldwell Summerell, September 30, 1866]
6 pages, 6 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Charles Phillips, April 26, 1869
7 pages, 7 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Charles Phillips, September 8, 1869
8 pages, 11 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Laura Caroline Phillips, June 14, 1869
12 pages, 12 page images.
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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Laura Caroline Phillips, May 26, 1869
4 pages, 6 page images.
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Spragins, Thomas L.
Letter from Thomas L. Spragins to his brother, Mel Spragins, September 22, 1808
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Squires, Jane
conducted by William Mansfield
Oral History Interview with Jane Squires, September 21, 2002. Interview R-0192. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jane Squires describes building a career as a tobacco auctioneer, a male-dominated profession.
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Stephenson, Edward
conducted by William Mansfield
Oral History Interview with Edward Stephenson, September 21, 2002. Interview R-0193. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Tobacco auctioneer Edward Stephenson reflects on his two decades of brokering tobacco sales and shares his concerns about the decline of the industry.
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Stewart, S. M.
"Twenty Dollars Reward," Hillsborough (NC) Recorder, November 25, 1829
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Stone, Olive
conducted by Sherna Gluck
Oral History Interview with Olive Stone, August 13, 1975. Interview G-0059-4. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Sociologist Olive Stone describes her work as the dean of Huntingdon College (1929-1934), her doctoral work at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1934-1936), and her work in radical politics and for social justice during the 1930s. In addition, Stone speaks at length about her life as a single woman, both professionally and socially.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Announcement Denying the Students' petition by David L. Swain, May 1, 1861
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
John B. Tenny's Bill for "building New wall around College Campus," May 1, 1852
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain [to Alexander J. Davis], April 12, 1851, Including John Berry's Bill of Materials
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain [to William A. Graham], January 27, 1858
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain [to William A. Graham], September 15, 1859
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868 and
Battle, William H. (William Horn), 1802-1879
Letter from David L. Swain and William H. Battle to Charles Manly, February 6, 1849
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to [Charles Manly], October 7, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Archibald Henderson, May 1, 1862 (In Which He Assures Henderson that He Will Attempt to Keep John Henderson in School)
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, February 6, 1840
1 pages, 2 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, October 10, 1856 [Containing Enclosures from Elisha Mitchell, John Thomas Wheat, Albert Micajah Shipp, Charles Phillips, James Phillips, and Manuel Fetter]
33 pages, 38 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, October 22, 1851
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, October 25, 1856 [Containing Enclosures from Henry Harrisse, Elisha Mitchell, Charles Phillips, James Phillips, Solomon Pool, Joseph Blount Lucas, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, Manuel Fetter, William Robards Wetmore, and Ashbel Green Brown]
18 pages, 26 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, October 28-29, 1856
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, September 19, 1856
6 pages, 7 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Robert Donaldson, November 28, 1843
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to Robert G. Allison, March 1, 1856
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to the Board of Trustees, July 23, 1867
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Letter from David L. Swain to William A. Graham, January 16, 1861
4 pages, 5 page images.
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Sykes, Edward Turner, b. 1839
Senior Oration of Edward T. Sykes, [1858]
15 pages, 15 page images.
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Talmadge, Herman
conducted by Jack Nelson
Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, December 18, 1975. Interview A-0331-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia offers concluding remarks in this final interview of a three-part series. He reflects on contemporary political issues of the mid-1970s, including civil rights, Vietnam, and abuses of power on the part of the CIA and the FBI. Finally, he reflects on his political legacy in the state of Georgia.
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Talmadge, Herman
conducted by Jack Nelson
Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, July 15 and 24, 1975. Interview A-0331-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
In this interview, the first in a three-part series, Herman Talmadge discusses his political career as Governor of Georgia and his decision to run for the United States Senate. The son of Eugene Talmadge, Herman Talmadge recalls his involvement in his father's gubernatorial campaigns during the 1930s and 1940s. He explains in detail his perception of the 1947 "three governors controversy" (referred to by Talmadge here as the "Two Governors Row"), which arose after he was appointed governor by the legislature, only to be removed following a ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court. Talmadge also discusses his own political campaigns, his relationship with his political rivals and colleagues, and the growing importance of race in Southern politics during the mid-twentieth century.
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Talmadge, Herman
conducted by Jack Nelson
Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, July 29 and August 1, 1975. Interview A-0331-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia recalls his years in the Senate from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. He discusses changes in the Democratic party; assesses the leadership styles and accomplishments of presidents and other major political figures during his tenure in the Senate; explains his views on civil rights, environmentalism, consumerism, and the impact of television on national politics; and he offers his thoughts on problems facing America during the 1970s, particularly in relationship to the Watergate scandal.
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Tapia, Brenda
conducted by Jonetta Johnson
Oral History Interview with Brenda Tapia, February 2, 2001. Interview K-0476. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
The Reverend Brenda Tapia, one of the first African Americans to attend North Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, NC, describes an alternative view of desegregation.
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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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Taylor, John,
Hunt, John,
Mebane, John, and
Lytle, William
John Taylor's Bond as Steward, November 16, 1794 [1795]
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Taylor, Massilon Field
Address of Massilon Field Taylor for the Dialectic Society, March 9, 1861: "Is a Knowlege of the Classics Necessary for a Thorough Education?"
7 pages, 7 page images.
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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, North Carolina.
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Thompson, Charles D.
conducted by Jun Wang
Oral History Interview with Charles D. Thompson, October 15, 1990. Interview K-0810. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Charles D. Thompson describes his career as a small farmer in North Carolina. Though he found financial success in farming, he was not able to recapture the feel of the farming community of his youth.
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Thomson, William H.
Letter from William H. Thomson to Thomas Ruffin, April 10, 1824
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Thorbs, Leslie
conducted by Leda Hartman
Oral History Interview with Leslie Thorbs, May 30, 2001. Interview K-0589. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Leslie Thorbs describes growing up in a tenant farming family in eastern North Carolina, during the 1920s and 1930s. Thorbs describes his experiences with poverty, farming, factory work, race relations, and family life. He concludes the interview by discussing the devastating impact of Hurricane Floyd's flooding on his family and his community.
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Thurmond, Strom
conducted by James G. Banks
Oral History Interview with Strom Thurmond, July 1978. Interview A-0334. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Tillett, Gladys Avery
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall, Jacquelyn Hall, and Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Gladys Avery Tillett, March 20, 1974. Interview G-0061. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Gladys Avery Tillett was an advocate for women's suffrage during the early twentieth century and a participant in both state and national politics from the 1920s into the 1950s. In this interview, she describes her education, her work with the League of Women Voters, and her experiences as a leader in the National Democratic Party.
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Tolbert, Marguerite
conducted by Constance Myers
Oral History Interview with Marguerite Tolbert, June 14, 1974. Interview G-0062. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Marguerite Tolbert worked throughout her life as an educator in South Carolina public schools and universities for adult education. She describes her education and high school graduation through stories from her book, South Carolina's Distinguished Women from Laurens County. She recounts how she earned a scholarship to Winthrop College and met her teaching colleagues, Wil Lou Gray and Dr. D.B. Johnson; describes local activism for women's suffrage between 1914 and 1920; and recalls encounters with leaders, including President Hoover and Jane Addams. She concludes by discussing the controversy at Winthrop College over a discrepancy in female teachers' salaries.
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Trammel, Naomi Sizemore
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammel, March 25, 1980. Interview H-0258. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Naomi Sizemore Trammel recalls her life as a textile mill worker in Greer, South Carolina.
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Tripp, Millie
conducted by Valerie Pawlewicz
Oral History Interview with Millie Tripp, August 12, 1994. Interview K-0112. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Millie Tripp describes her career at the White Furniture Factory, focusing on weathering a merger and a plant closing.
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Truitt, Herman Newton
conducted by Allen Tullos
Oral History Interview with Herman Newton Truitt, December 5, 1978. Interview H-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Herman Norton Truitt describes running a grocery store from the 1920s to the 1940s. The store was patronized primarily by mill workers in Burlington, NC.
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Turner, Josephine
conducted by Karen Sindelar
Oral History Interview with Josephine Turner, June 7, 1976. Interview H-0235-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Durham, North Carolina, resident Josephine Turner reflects on her struggle to leave behind a life of poverty.
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Turner, Viola
conducted by Walter Weare
Oral History Interview with Viola Turner, April 15, 1979. Interview C-0015. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Viola Turner, who served as treasurer of North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, describes her childhood in Macon, Georgia, and her experiences in Durham, North Carolina, after she settled there in the early 1920s following brief sojourns in Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. In remembering her life experiences in the early twentieth century. She focuses particularly on education, race relations, the importance of skin color, and segregation in business and leisure activities in the South.
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Tyler, Phyllis
conducted by Terri Myers
Oral History Interview with Phyllis Tyler, October 10, 1988. Interview C-0080. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Phyllis Tyler first moved to North Carolina during the 1940s in order to join the Blessed Community of Quakers in Celo. In the 1950s, she moved with her family to Raleigh, where she became increasingly involved in the civil rights movement. Throughout the interview, she emphasizes the changing nature of race relations from the 1950s into the 1980s.
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Tysor, Nancy Brown
conducted by Bruce E. Baker
Oral History Interview with Nancy Brown Tysor, October 19, 1999. Interview K-0811. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Lifelong Chatham County, North Carolina, resident Nancy Brown Tysor describes the changes she has witnessed in Siler City.
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Waddell, Laura B.
conducted by Kieran Taylor
Oral History Interview with Laura B. Waddell, August 6, 2002. Interview R-0175. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Laura Waddell describes her successful career as a tailor as well as her civic activities in Savannah, Georgia.
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Waitt, Thomas A.
Thomas A. Waitt's Bill for Labour Done March 13 to April 29, [1837], May 5, 1837
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Waitt, Thomas A.
Thomas A. Waitt's Estimate for Repairing Steward's Hall, July 22, 1836
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Warren, Edith
conducted by Leda Hartman
Oral History Interview with Edith Warren, August 28, 2002. Interview K-0601. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
State congresswoman Edith Warren describes the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in Pitt County, North Carolina.
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Waterhouse & Bowes (Raleigh, NC)
Letter from Waterhouse & Bowes to William Percival, September 7, 1859
2 pages, 2 page images.
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Webb, William Edwards, ca. 1777-1829
Letter from William E. Webb to Richard Bennehan, May 20, 1800
3 pages, 4 page images.
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Wetmore, W. R.
Letter from W. R. Wetmore to Manuel Fetter, Giving Account of the Burning of the Belfry, August 12, 1856
3 pages, 3 page images.
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Whitaker, Exum Lewis, 1823-1847
Letter from Exum Lewis Whitaker to William Figures Lewis, May 4, 1844
3 pages, 4 page images.
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White, John C.
John C. White's Bill for Labor of Negro Workmen, [1824?]
1 pages, 1 page images.
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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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Wilkins, Josephine
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Josephine Wilkins, 1972. Interview G-0063. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Josephine Wilkins was born and raised in Athens, Georgia, in 1893. In the 1920s, she became increasingly interested in issues of social justice. In the 1930s, she became the president of the Georgia chapter of the League of Women's Voters and helped to found the Citizen's Fact Finding Movement. In addition she describes her involvement and perception of such organizations as the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, and the Southern Regional Council.
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Wilson-Allen, Tawana Belinda
conducted by Elizabeth Gritter
Oral History Interview with Tawana Belinda Wilson-Allen, May 11, 2006. Interview U-0098. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Tawana Belinda Wilson-Allen recalls her community activist work and her service as a congressional liaison for Congressman Mel Watt. She assesses the tensions between lower-income and wealthier residents in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Winston, Ellen Black
conducted by Annette Smith
Oral History Interview with Ellen Black Winston, December 2, 1974. Interview G-0064. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Ellen Black Winston was born and raised in North Carolina. She received her doctorate in sociology in 1930. Actively involved in issues of social welfare in North Carolina, Winston was appointed as the North Carolina Commissioner of Public Welfare in 1944 and went on to become the first United States Commissioner of Welfare in 1963. In this interview, she describes problems and opportunities for professional women, her goals to improve standards of social welfare in North Carolina, and her work with various branches of government.
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Winston, George Tayloe
First Faculty Minutes After Reopening the University, September 4, 1875
1 pages, 1 page images.
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Winston, George Tayloe
Philanthropic Society Minutes, September 15, 1875 [Containing the First Philanthropic Society Minutes After the University's Reopening]
4 pages, 4 page images.
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Winston, Robert
conducted by Goldie F. Wells and Goldie F. Wells
Oral History Interview with Robert Winston, January 26, 1991. Interview M-0030. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Robert Winston, principal of Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, describes his duties in this interview, reflecting briefly on the impact of desegregation.
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Withers, Elijah B.
Senior Speech of Elijah B. Withers, November 7, 1858
11 pages, 11 page images.
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Withers, Elijah Benton
Junior Speech of Elijah Benton Withers for the Dialectic Society, 1858: "Are the Classics Worthy of the Attention They Receive in our Modern Colleges?"
11 pages, 11 page images.
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Woods, Ruth Dial
conducted by Anne Mitchell Coe and Laura Moore
Oral History Interview with Ruth Dial Woods, June 12, 1992. Interview L-0078. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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.
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Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869
Governor Jonathan Worth's Reply, July 30, 1867
1 pages, 1 page images.
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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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Wright, Marion
conducted by Jacquelyn Hall
Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Marion Wright was one of a group of white southerners who sought to tackle the entrenched racism of the 20th-century South. As a member of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), he sought to do so without direct action. This interview is a portrait of a civil rights leader in the era before the movement was defined by public protest