- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Vennie Moore, February 24, 1999
- Creator:
- Moore, Vennie
- Contributor to Resource:
- Campbell, Brian
Hajar, Laura
Moore, Stephanie, 1966?-
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-02-24
- Subject:
- African American women--North Carolina--Davidson
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Davidson
African Americans--North Carolina--Davidson--Social life and customs
Davidson (N.C.)--Race relations - People:
- Moore, Vennie
Moore, Stephanie, 1966?- - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Davidson, 35.50233, -80.83912
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, 35.24671, -80.83276 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Vennie Moore describes her childhood as an African American girl in Davidson, North Carolina. Moore remembers picking cotton with other black children as white children left the fields to attend school. Her own schooling took place in an under-resourced facility. Moore recalls the fear she felt after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This interview is relatively short but does add an interesting facet to the history of the segregated South: Moore remembers that she and her black classmates did not bridle at their school's shoddy resources because they had no idea white students were enjoying anything better. Integration shattered that myth.
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-0439/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008).
Interview participants: Vennie Moore, interviewee; Stephanie Moore, interviewee; Brian Campbell, interviewer; Laura Hajar, interviewer.
Duration: 01:18:26.
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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