- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Gloria Jean Howard
- Creator:
- Howard, Gloria Jean Blair, 1943-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1982-09-15
- Subject:
- African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African American students--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Howard, Gloria Jean Blair, 1943-
- 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 Gloria Howard describes her childhood influences, her activities with the NAACP Youth Chapter, and events that took place prior to the formation of a CORE chapter. She discusses her increased participation in recruitment and demonstrating while at Bennett, the attitudes of out-of-state students and their role in the movement, and prominent members of the black community, such as Otis Hairston, Sarah Herbin, and Marion Jones. Howard also mentions national leaders who came to Greensboro and stayed with her family, including Jesse Jackson, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Hank Thomas, and James Baldwin.
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%3A66
- 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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