- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Greensboro: Lewis A. Brandon III
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-01-30
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights demonstrations
Segregation
Education - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville, 35.60095, -82.55402
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Lewis A. Brandon III in Greensboro, North Carolina. He talks about his upbringing and education in Asheville, North Carolina. The state did not spend much of its education budget on Black students. Asheville does not have a large African American population, which has a history as a resort town for wealthy White people. Brandon talks about attending North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and he and Dent compare various universities. Veterans at the universities led to politicization on campuses. Brandon recalls his participations in the Greensboro Sit-in movement and the city-wide conflict surrounding the 1969 Greensboro uprising. He talks about his experiences teaching and serving as Chairman of the Greensboro Association of Poor People [GAPP] and the Chairman of the Education Committee of the NAACP. Brandon and Dent discuss Malcolm X Liberation University.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53906
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
