- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Carolyn Mark by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Mark, Carolyn
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1974-10-10
- Subject:
- Black power
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Protest movements--United States
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Civil rights demonstration--North Carolina--Greensboro
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 transcript of an October 10, 1974, interview conducted by William Chafe with Carolyn Mark primarily documents Ms. Mark's recollections as a student at North Carolina A&T State University and as an employee of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Of her time at A&T, Mark discusses the separation between the university and the city; the presence of Winston-Salem Black Panthers on campus; students sitting-in at the administration building to protest school policies; fighting for women's rights on campus; the march after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death; the 1969 Dudley High/A&T protest, including the speed at which it moved, the National Guard using smoke bombs to evacuate dorms, and factors the fueled the protest; students' opinion of Dr. Lewis Dowdy, Cleo McCoy, John Marshall Kilimanjaro, and Nelson Johnson; and the conservative nature of the A&T faculty. Mark also describes how she became involved with the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; the power structure in Greensboro; effort to camouflage the fact that business elite run the city; business leaders' reaction to school desegregation; human relations and cell meetings at the Hayes-Taylor YMCA; the Community Unity Committee; Hal Sieber's support in the chamber and in the community; and the improvement of race relations in the city.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/746
- 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:
-
