- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983
- Creator:
- Neale, Nancy Alice Kester, 1934-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Blanchard, Dallas A.
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1983-08-06
- Subject:
- Fellowship of Southern Churchmen
Women civil rights workers
Women social reformers--Southern States
Social movements--Southern States--Religious aspects--Christianity
Social justice--Southern States--Religious aspects--Christianity - People:
- Kester, Alice Harris
Kester, Howard, 1904-1977
Neale, Nancy Alice Kester, 1934- - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Nancy Kester Neale remembers her father, Howard "Buck" Kester, who founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and held leadership positions in the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice. According to Neale, Kester was a pioneer whose activism demonstrated the power that religious organizations could play in improving the lives of the southern underclass. This interview is at times light on specifics, but is a useful look at the role of religious organizations in the struggle for economic and racial justice in the South well before the modern civil rights movement gained strength.
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/F-0036/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on July 7, 2008).
Interview participants: Nancy Kester Neale, interviewee; Dallas Blanchard, interviewer.
Duration: 01:10:33.
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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