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New Additions

		Training School for Wives and Mothers from "The Church in the Southern Black Community" Collection
	      
		the Deliverance by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow from The "Library of Southern Literature" Collection
	      
		Fight or Buy Bonds: Third Liberty Loans by Howard Chandler Christy from 
		the "North Carolinians and the Great War" Collection
	      
		Portrait of Frederick Douglass from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass from "The 
		North American Slave Narratives" Collection
	      
		Letter from the Robert March Hanes papers from the "North Carolina 
		Experience, Beginnings to 1940"  Collection

DocSouth May, 2008 new additions

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All titles published in May, 2008 are listed below, sorted by author's last name and first name.

    • Cobb, Mareda Sigmon and
      Yelton, Carrie Sigmon
      conducted by Jacquelyn Hall and Patty Dilley
      Oral History Interview with Mareda Sigmon Cobb and Carrie Sigmon Yelton, June 16 and 18, 1979. Interview H-0115. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
      Mareda Sigmon Cobb and her sister Carrie Sigmon Yelton both worked long careers in North Carolina textile mills, completing the family journey from farm to factory in the early decades of the twentieth century. Here they describe their family lives both as children and parents, the many implications of the Depression, working conditions in the mills, religion, and other themes central to social and labor history. The economic and material realities of textile employment are explored in detail; each suffered a major injury on the job, neither favored unionization (though their husbands did), and neither received a pension.
    • Cusick, Pat
      conducted by Pamela Dean
      Oral History Interview with Pat Cusick, June 19, 1989. Interview L-0043. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
      Pat Cusick recalls his participation in the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Imprisoned for his role in these demonstrations, he describes the formative impact his incarceration had in stirring up his radicalism, emboldening his support of nonviolent strategies, and connecting with other like-minded activists. Cusick also discusses coming to terms with his homosexuality.
      • Fillette, Ted
        conducted by Sarah Thuesen
        Oral History Interview with Ted Fillette, April 11, 2006. Interview U-0186. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
        This is the second interview in a two-part series with southern lawyer Ted Fillette of the Legal Aid Society of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. In this interview, Fillette focuses on his work as a legal advocate of tenant and welfare rights from the 1970s into the early twenty-first century. Throughout, he discusses the legal and political measures taken to ameliorate housing conditions for low-income tenants and to ensure that low-income people have access to social welfare services.
      • Fillette, Ted
        conducted by Sarah Thuesen
        Oral History Interview with Ted Fillette, March 2, 2006. Interview U-0185. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
        This is the first interview in a two-part series with southern lawyer Ted Fillette of the Legal Aid Society of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Fillette describes his childhood in Mobile, Alabama; his involvement in civil rights activism as a student at Duke during the 1960s; his work with the VISTA program in Boston; and his early work as a legal advocate of people displaced by urban renewal in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the 1970s.