- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Leroy Magness, March 27, 1999
- Creator:
- Magness, Leroy, 1920-2007
- Contributor to Resource:
- Markey, Michelle
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-03-27
- Subject:
- African American men--North Carolina--Lincolnton
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Lincolnton
African American men--North Carolina--Lincolnton--Attitudes
Lincolnton (N.C.)--Race relations
Lincolnton (N.C.)--Social life and customs - People:
- Magness, Leroy, 1920-2007
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Lincoln County, 35.48618, -81.22387
United States, North Carolina, Lincoln County, Lincolnton, 35.47375, -81.25453 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Leroy Magness spent most of his life in Lincolnton, North Carolina, about thirty-five miles from Charlotte. A poet, and a man who "didn't want to be a troublemaker," Magness has an easy relationship with his past as an African American in a segregated southern town. He did not participate in the civil rights movement, nor approve of those that did, believing that good behavior was a better catalyst for change than activism. This determination to avoid conflict lies at the heart of this interview, and, it seems, at the heart of Magness's character. He will not place blame for segregation, and his principal memory of desegregation was some trouble between white and black students.
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/K-0438/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Dec. 2, 2008).
Interview participants: Leroy Magness, interviewee; Michelle Markey, interviewer.
Duration: 01:21:45.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill 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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