- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001
- Creator:
- Battle, Fred
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gilgor, Bob
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2001-01-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Social life and customs--20th century
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century
African American students--Education (Secondary)--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Attitudes - People:
- Battle, Fred
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Orange County, 36.0613, -79.1206
United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Fred Battle recalls growing up and attending school in segregated Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and taking his experiences to college in Greensboro, where he participated in civil rights protests. Battle describes the pre-integration African American community as one in orbit around the all-black Lincoln High School and the church. Battle fears that these two institutions lack the character they once had: schools are losing their moral character, and churches are the most racially segregated sites in any community. Battle believes that racial progress has faltered since the 1960s and 1970s. This interview offers a useful gauge of the character of the African American community.
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:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0525/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:13:25
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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