- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with John R. Foster by Eugene Pfaff
- Creator:
- Foster, John R.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Pfaff, Eugene E.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1978-07-26
- Subject:
- Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
School integration - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this transcript of a July 26, 1978, oral history interview conducted by Eugene Pfaff with John R. Foster, Foster primarily discusses the history of the polio epidemic in North Carolina in the 1940s and subsequent construction of the Central Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital, informally referred to as "the polio hospital," in 1948. Foster also discusses school desegregation in Greensboro, specifically the Pearsall Plan, the board's opinion on and plan for desegregation, and the legal and social aftermath of the Brown decision in North Carolina.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/821
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Original Collection:
- CRG
OH001 Greensboro Voices Collection - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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