- Collection:
- African American History
- Title:
- Carl Long oral history interview, 2014
- Creator:
- Long, Carl, 1935-2015
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hopfengardner, Jerrold D.
- Date of Original:
- 2014
- Subject:
- Negro leagues--History
African American baseball players--North Carolina--Kinston
African American detectives--North Carolina--Lenoir County
Bus drivers--North Carolina--Lenoir County
Sheriffs--North Carolina--Lenoir County - People:
- Long, Carl, 1935-2015
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Carl Long (May 9, 1935 - January 12, 2015) discusses his professional baseball career (1952-1958) with the Negro American league and the Pittsburgh Pirates farm clubs including among others the Kinston (North Carolina) Eagles in the Carolina League where he was the first African American baseball player in the league; his time as the first African American deputy sheriff and first African American detective in Kinston; and his subsequent career as the first African American bus driver in Lenoir County (NC) from which he retired in 1995.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/56672
- Language:
- eng
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- Contributing Institution:
- J.Y. Joyner Library
- Rights:
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