- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Joan Bluethenthal
- Creator:
- Bluethenthal, Joan K., 1928-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1987-01-20
- Subject:
- Busing for school integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Social change--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Greensboro
School integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Women social reformers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Bluethenthal, Joan K., 1928-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history interview in which Joan Bluethenthal primarily discusses her involvement with integration of the Greensboro public school system in 1971, including the reaction of local parents to busing and her involvement with Greensboro's Human Relations Advisory Committee. She also notes her initial impressions of Greensboro in 1950 and her experience of working with various communities towards racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s.
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%3A21
- 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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