- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Richard Bowman, July 8, 1998
- Creator:
- Bowman, Richard, 1934-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Navies, Kelly Elaine
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1998-07-08
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina
North Carolina--Race relations
African Americans--North Carolina
African Americans--Education--North Carolina
Asheville (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Education--North Carolina--History--20th century
Segregation in education--North Carolina
Asheville (N.C.)--Race relations
High schools--North Carolina--Buncombe County
Stephens-Lee High School (Asheville, N.C.)
School integration--North Carolina--Asheville
African Americans--North Carolina--Asheville
African Americans--Education--North Carolina--Asheville
African Americans--North Carolina--Asheville--Social life and customs
African American students--Education--North Carolina--Asheville
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations
Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century
High schools--North Carolina--Asheville - People:
- Bowman, Richard, 1934-
- Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
United States, California, Orange County, 33.67691, -117.77617
United States, North Carolina, Buncombe County, Asheville, 35.60095, -82.55402 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Richard Bowman grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, attended Tuskegee College, served in the army overseas in Germany, and lived in Los Angeles, California, for forty years before returning to Asheville. He discusses important events in his life, including his experience in segregated schools and his efforts to improve Asheville schools following his retirement. He also recalls his early stance against segregated libraries and buses in Asheville. He faced racism in the army and at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Los Angeles. Bowman explains his views on race relations in California by comparing the riots in 1965 with the riots in 1992. Bowman is glad for improvements like school integration in Asheville, but he volunteers his efforts in order to ensure that integration serves black students well.
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-0513/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Dec. 21, 2007).
Interview participants: Richard Bowman, interviewee; Kelly Elaine Navies, interviewer.
Duration: 01:27:26.
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 Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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