noa_sohpcr_k-0439 k-0439 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Vennie Moore, February 24, 1999 Moore, Vennie Campbell, Brian Hajar, Laura Moore, Stephanie, 1966?- African American women--North Carolina--Davidson Segregation in education--North Carolina--Davidson African Americans--North Carolina--Davidson--Social life and customs Davidson (N.C.)--Race relations Moore, Vennie Moore, Stephanie, 1966?- Vennie Moore describes her childhood as an African American girl in Davidson, North Carolina. Moore remembers picking cotton with other black children as white children left the fields to attend school. Her own schooling took place in an under-resourced facility. Moore recalls the fear she felt after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This interview is relatively short but does add an interesting facet to the history of the segregated South: Moore remembers that she and her black classmates did not bridle at their school's shoddy resources because they had no idea white students were enjoying anything better. Integration shattered that myth. 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. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southern Oral History Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) 2007 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0439/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 119.9 kilobytes, 143 megabytes. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. MP3 format / ca. 143 MB, 01:18:26 Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008). Interview participants: Vennie Moore, interviewee; Stephanie Moore, interviewee; Brian Campbell, interviewer; Laura Hajar, interviewer. Duration: 01:18:26. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 1999-02-24 Davidson (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.) 20090730 151923