- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Joseph Asher
- Creator:
- Asher, Joseph, 1921-1990
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1982-04-22
- Subject:
- Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
University of Alabama
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Jews--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
Jews--Germany--History--20th century - People:
- Asher, Joseph, 1921-1990
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which Rabbi Joseph Asher discusses some events that influenced his involvement in the civil rights movement in Greensboro, including the University of Alabama and Little Rock High School desegregation battles and his own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany. He compares the activities of various civic organizations, political groups, the religious community, and specific leaders in Greensboro between 1958 and 1968, in addition to noting the role of Jewish community in the city and in the movement.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A14
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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