- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Mary Taft Smith by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Smith, Mary Taft
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1973-07-11
- Subject:
- Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
Segregation in education--United States
School integration
Segregation
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 a July 11, 1973, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Mary Taft Smith primarily documents Ms. Smith's opinions of desegregation and participation in interracial activities in Greensboro. Topics include her membership in the League of Women Voters, an interracial fellowship organization, and a social concerns group at West Market Street Methodist Church; writing a letter calling for the business desegregation; the integration of Greensboro schools; her husband's election to the school board and their response to Brown v. Board of Education; Ben Smith and the slow response to school desegregation; segregation in local churches and race relations at West Market Street Methodist; Greensboro College's policy towards blacks; her and her husband's reputation in the community; her opinion of Greensboro as progressive; and the Greensboro power structure.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/773
- 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:
-
