- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Salter and Doris Cochran, April 12, 1997
- Creator:
- Cochran, Salter, 1922-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Thomas, Karen Kruse
Cochran, Doris
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1997-04-12
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Halifax County
African American physicians--North Carolina--Halifax County
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Halifax County
African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolin--Halifax County
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Halifax County
Halifax County (N.C.)--Race relations
African Americans in medicine--North Carolina--Halifax County
Discrimination in medical care--North Carolina--Halifax County - People:
- Cochran, Salter, 1922-
Cochran, Doris - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Halifax County, 36.2575, -77.65188
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Dr. Salter Cochran and his wife, Doris Cochran, discuss their activism in the Weldon-Roanoke Rapids area of North Carolina. Extremely well-educated, worldly, and, in Salter's case, with military experience, the Cochrans arrived in North Carolina with progressive views on race and a determination to push for racial justice. They were distressed to find entrenched racism among white residents and a reluctance to challenge it among African Americans. Additionally, the Cochrans' activism inhibited friendships and even inspired threats of violence. But it also succeeded in desegregating some of the area's institutions, including a school (which their children were the first to integrate) and a hospital. Outsiders though they were, they continued to agitate for racial justice in forums ranging from PTA meetings to medical society conventions. As they recall their decades of activism, they reflect on racism and justice, and they evaluate the successes and failures of the movement to which they contributed. This interview will provide readers with a great deal of information about race, desegregation, poverty, and health in North Carolina.
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/R-0014/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on November 13, 2008).
Interview participants: Salter Cochran, interviewee; Doris Cochran, interviewee; Karen Kruse Thomas, interviewer.
Duration: 03:01:22.
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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