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| Creator: | Alston, Floyd, 1933- |
| Creator: | McCoy, James Eddie (James Edward), 1942- |
| Creator: | Alston, Ethel Thorpe, 1916- |
| Creator: | Southern Oral History Program |
| Title: | Oral history interview with Floyd Alston Jr., November 29, 1995 |
| Date: | 1995 Nov. 29 |
| Description: | Granville County, North Carolina, residents Floyd Alston (in his sixties in 1995) and his mother, Ethel Thorpe Alston, remember their lives in the area in this interview. Floyd and Ethel trace their family lines, some of which lead to slaves, others to sharecroppers, some to brothers and sisters who died, still others to factory workers. This interview offers more information on the Alston and Thorpe families than it does about African Americans' lives in the rural South generally, but it does offer some revealing insights into racial identity and the struggles of post-emancipation African Americans to find economic and social security. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Oral histories (document genres) | Text | Sound |
| Subjects: | Alston, Floyd, 1933- | Alston, Ethel Thorpe, 1916- | African American men--North Carolina--Granville County | African American women--North Carolina--Granville County | African American families--North Carolina--Granville County | African Americans--North Carolina--Granville County--Social life and customs | United States, North Carolina, Granville County |
| Collection: | Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement |
| Institution: | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Contributors: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/Q-0002/menu.html |
