- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson, November 4 and 6, 1987
- Creator:
- Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dean, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1987-11-04/1987-11-06
- Subject:
- College administrators--North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students
Student movements--North Carolina
Faculty integration--North Carolina - People:
- Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Orange County, 36.0613, -79.1206
United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Former University of North Carolina Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson recalls the dramatic changes the university underwent during the 1960s. Appointed chancellor in 1966, Sitterson was immediately faced with a variety of student issues, including student visitation, dress codes, and privacy issues. Additionally, Sitterson cites the Speaker Ban law, Jim Crow facilities, and the Vietnam War as flashpoint topics for student activists. To maintain communication with students, Sitterson employed an open-door policy for student advisory committees, which brought concerns to him. Sitterson notes that UNC officials used open forums with university administrators or state politicians to preempt violent student riots. The proliferation of radical student activities on campuses nationwide produced fears of student sit-ins at UNC. Desegregating the university student body and faculty were additional changes facing Sitterson. The desegregation of faculty, Sitterson argues, was a more difficult proposition, since black faculty cost more due to the limited number of skilled applicants. Sitterson says that he walked a tightrope between his superiors and his faculty and that his support of hiring black staff further distanced him from the Board of Trustees.
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/L-0030/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 18, 2008).
Interview participants: J. Carlyle Sitterson, interviewee; Pamela Dean, interviewer.
Duration: 01:30:52.
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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