Oral histories of the American South : The civil rights movement
Civil rights related oral histories from the collections of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina.
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Date of Original
1972/2014
Subject
Civil rights--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers--United States
Interviews--United States
Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
Medium
oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
transcripts
Type
Sound, Text
Description
The voices of the civil rights movement swelled into a wave of protest that profoundly changed America. This collection of interviews seeks to make this massive movement local and understandable by reducing it into its smallest parts--the people that participated, in small and large ways. These people were former slaves who taught their children the value of education, or high school principals who insisted on punctuality. Drawing together interviews from a variety of Southern Oral History Program collections, this cluster includes interviews with students and teachers at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the successes of integration are encountering the realities of a segregated past; the difficult transition to integrated schooling for students at the all-black Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and the roles of black workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This collection gives voice to the voices, loud and soft, of the movement to desegregate public life in the South., 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.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Southern Oral History Program Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Contributing Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
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