- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987
- Creator:
- Herring, William Dallas
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jenkins, James Lineberry, 1919-2003
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1987-05-16
- 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
Educators--North Carolina--Attitudes
Education--Political aspects--North Carolina
Teachers--Certification--North Carolina
Accreditation (Education)--North Carolina
Race relations in school management--North Carolina
Education--Curricula--North Carolina
North Carolina--Politics and government--1951- - People:
- Herring, William Dallas
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- William Dallas Herring, longtime chair of the North Carolina State Board of Education, discusses some of the issues he encountered during his tenure. He speaks in detail about education issues at the time of the interview, and offers his opinions on the state of democracy in the United States. Herring believes strongly in representative democracy, and worries that institutions across the country and in the state are falling prey to complacency, entrenched incumbency, and flawed processes. On a more granular level, Herring shares his opinion on proposed changes to the election of superintendent of education, evaluation of teacher performance, and curricula.
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-0035/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on July 30, 2008).
Interview participants: William Dallas Herring, interviewee; Jay Jenkins, interviewer.
Duration: 02:20:39.
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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