- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Lewis Brandon III by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Brandon, Lewis A., III
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1978-07
- Subject:
- Black power
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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 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 July 1978 interview conducted by William Chafe with Lewis Brandon III primarily documents Brandon's involvement in, and the activities of organizations including GUTS (Greensboro United Tutorial Service), YES (Youth Educational Service), OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity), FCD (Foundation for Community Development), and GAPP (Greensboro Association of Poor People) during the late 1960s. Brandon also discusses the climate during that time at NC A&T, including its discrimination in state funding, issues on campus, student involvement in community initiatives, the role of the university in the community, and SOUL. Other topics include Brandon's efforts to prevent the Dudley High School protest, the resulting murder of Willie Grimes, his year and a half teaching at J.C. Prince School, being under police surveillance, the cafeteria workers' strike, the FCD summer internship program, the actions of Black Liberation Front (BLF) and Black Panther members in Greensboro, and the unnecessary use of force in several cases, including after the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Individuals discussed in Nelson Johnson, B. J. Battle, Harold Avent (Nunding), Owen Lewis, and Hal Seiber. Claude Barnes enters the room at the end of the interview, and Chafe explains the premise of his book.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/757
- 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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