- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Eula Hudgens by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Hudgens, Eula
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1974-12-17
- Subject:
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Segregation in education--United States
School integration
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This December 17, 1974, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Eula Hudgens primarily documents Ms. Hudgens' involvement in desegregation of Greensboro schools and businesses during the 1960s and 1970s. Hudgens discusses race relations in Greensboro in the 1950s when she was a student at North Carolina A&T College (A&T), and the relationship between Bennett College and A&T at that time. Of the 1960 sit-ins, she describes the involvement and opinions of faculty at both colleges, how the sit-ins strengthened the bond between the two colleges, discussing the sit-ins with Joseph McNeil, leadership in the Greensboro Four, her disappointment with city leaders' response to the sit-ins, the influential businessmen of the time, and the lack of church involvement. Hudgens also discusses school integration at length, including the lack of action after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the burden of desegregation being put on black students, parents' fears, differences in funding and facilities for black and white schools, debates over busing, YWCA discussion groups on school integration and busing, and differences in parent and student responses to integration. Other topics include participating in a freedom ride in the late forties, Greensboro activist organizations in the fifties, human relations work at the Pearson Street YWCA, desegregation of the Gillespie Park golf course, the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and the cross burning at Frank Williams' home, the improvement of the police department, Hal Sieber and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, funding for community organizations, segregated funeral homes and hospitals, and dropout rates.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/736
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Original Collection:
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/chafe/
RL.00207 William Henry Chafe Oral History Collection
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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