- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987
- Creator:
- Herring, William Dallas
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jenkins, James Lineberry, 1919-2003
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1987-02-14
- Subject:
- North Carolina--Race relations
Educators--North Carolina
North Carolina--Biography
North Carolina. State Board of Education--Officials and employees
Education and state--North Carolina
School integration--North Carolina
Community colleges--Curricula--North Carolina
Technical education--North Carolina
North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
Duplin County (N.C.). Board of Education - People:
- Herring, William Dallas
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Duplin County, 34.93628, -77.93294
United States, North Carolina, Duplin County, Kenansville, 34.96239, -77.96221 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- William Dallas Herring began his career in education politics on the school board in Duplin County, North Carolina, and eventually became chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education. In Duplin County and statewide, Herring sought to consolidate school districts and give as much control as possible to local decision-makers. His devotion to comprehensive education (as opposed to choosing to support either vocational or liberal arts education) sometimes put him at odds with other board members and state leaders. In this interview, Herring describes some of these conflicts, offering broad pronouncements about education and the details of policy wrangling. Many of these details come in Herring's recollections about the growth of the community college system in North Carolina in the late 1950s and 1960s. Researchers should read this interview with its partner, C-0035.
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:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0034/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on July 30, 2008).
Interview participants: William Dallas Herring, interviewee; Jay Jenkins, interviewer.
Duration: 02:55:51.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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