- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Ben Wilson
- Creator:
- Wilson, Benjamin Harrison, 1924-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1989-05-17
- Subject:
- College teachers--North Carolina
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Social reformers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American college students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
College students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
College integration--North Carolina--Chapel Hill - People:
- Wilson, Benjamin H., Jr. (Benjamin Harrison), 1924-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral History in which Benjamin Harrison Wilson primarily describes his participation with the Inter-Faculty Forum and their role and activities in the local civil rights movement. He discusses the general role of college faculty in Greensboro during the 1960s, planning interracial conferences during segregation, and how interactions with blacks helped break down barriers. He briefly recalls teaching the first black student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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%3A141
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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