- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Hiram Hilty
- Creator:
- Hilty, Hiram H.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1989-06-13
- Subject:
- College teachers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Cuba--Race relations--History--20th century
Guilford College
Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Greensboro
College integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation in higher education--North Carolina--Greenbsoro - People:
- Hilty, Hiram H.
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which Hiram Hilty recalls the formation of the Inter-Faculty Forum and describes the role it played in building bridges between the races and between educational institutions. He compares race relations in Cuba in the 1940s and in Greensboro after 1948. He also explains the circumstances surrounding the decision to desegregate Guilford College.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A64
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
-
