Since 1973, the Southern Oral History Program has worked to preserve the voices of the southern past.
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"I was sure my luck had run out." Alexander M. Rivera tries to investigate a 1948 lynching in Georgia and is run out of town. http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0297/C-02
(Here's a bit more on Rivera: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content
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NCCU celebrates a native photojournalist by doug stuber Photojournalist Alexander "Alex" Rivera Jr. may never be as well known as Margaret Bourke-White or Alfred Eisenstadt, but this may not be just because there is a bias against lionizing African Americans in general. ...
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Our Saturday podcast was a good one. A single, high-achieving black student is chosen to desegregation East Carolina University in order to "soften up" resistance to desegregation before the process began in earnest. http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Today's podcast: Dr. Evelyn Schmidt describes the challenges of giving health care to the changing Durham of the 1970s. Listen: http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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On WUNC today (at noon and nine), NC State prof Kat Charron talks about civil rights activist Septima Clark. We've got two interviews with Clark online. Take a look: 1. http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu
and 2. http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0016/menu
Septima Poinsette Clark and Eugene Walker, conducted by Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsett
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Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976. Interview G-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). by Septima Poinsette Clark and Eugene Walker, conducted by
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"I hate to think the southern people are just naturally stupid," says Virginia Foster Durr in a 1975 interview. Are they? Why do poor folks vote for rich folks? Today's podcast: http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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When Clark Foreman was a student at the University of Georgia, he witnessed a lynching. Remember the horrific event with him: http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Joan Delamar Gracie Remembering the NC Volunteer program of the 60's and thankful to Terry Sanford for creating this summer opportunity for students. Would love to establish contact with other NC volunteers from that era to talk about how that experience impacted our lives....
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Eula McGill remembers the bad old days in an Alabama textile mill. Violence and discrimination were routine. http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Friday's podcast: Eula McGill remembers routine violence and gender discrimination in an Alabama textile mill. Happy listening! http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Health care Tuesday: remembering community health care in a rural
southern town. Before the phrase "pre-existing condition" was invented.
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Jacquelyn Hall I'm a fan too, given all the people, past and present, doing such surprising and wonderul things.
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Remembering a black man who lost his job for drinking from a white-only water fountain in yesterday's podcast: http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Today's podcast: a sharecropper tells his boss to shove it and moves to Durham: http://docsouth.unc.edu/cgi-bin/feed/soh
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Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement seeks to inspire scholarly collaboration and develop new ways of creating and sharing scholarship on the civil rights movement. Take a look at lcrm.unc.edu. By focusing on the “Long Civil Rights Movement,” our project seeks to broaden and deepen the traditi...
Our homepage. Learn about what we're up to, search our interview collection, etc.
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The SOHP's current research initiative focuses on school desegregation and resegregation, economic justice, and the social movements of the 1970 and 1980s that were influenced by the civil rights struggle.
