Since 1973, the Southern Oral History Program has worked to preserve the voices of the southern past.
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- Adriane Lentz-Smith book signing
Bull's Head Book Shop
Thursday, February 25 at 3:30pm
Southern Oral History Program Our friend Adriane Lentz-Smith will read from her new book Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I on 2/25. Many of the 200,000 black soldiers who fought in WWII returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full... citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation.
Time:3:30PM Thursday, February 25th
Location:Bull's Head Book Shop
Southern Oral History Program Hey fans, Seth will be back on the radio this Thursday, joining host Frank Stasio on WUNC's "The State of Things." Seth will venture well out of his depth to discuss race, gender, and civil rights and will play some clips from interviews with Pauli Murray, Modjeska Simkins, and Lemuel Delany. This Thursday, 12pm and 9pm, WUNC and wunc.org.
Southern Oral History Program Two hundred black high school principals in 1964. Fewer than forty in 1989. This is a problem. One black high school principal offers some advice to aspiring black educators.
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Southern Oral History Program You'll be hearing plenty about civil rights and Greensboro today. Why not a taste of something slightly different, delivered by a pioneer of a different kind? Kathrine Robinson Everett remembers attending UNC School of Law (class of '20) as one of just a handful of women.
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Southern Oral History Program Ella Baker remembers her grandmother, who was once a slave. Baker, as you may remember, was instrumental in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding this year.
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Southern Oral History Program Bomb Arthur Shores's house? He will not be intimidated! On the bright side, race relations in Atlanta have improved a great deal since then, he thinks.
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Southern Oral History Program Ian Thomas Palmquist discusses the importance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people working together to accomplish their goal of achieving full citizenship.
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Southern Oral History Program Eva Clayton describes the indigenous civil rights movement in North Carolina and reflects on women in the movement. Listen ...
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Southern Oral History Program Remembering Martha C. McKay, 1920-2009: A pioneering women's rights activist who led the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus, McKay was pushing for economic justice for women long before the idea of full equality for women had taken hold. Read a bit more about her and listen to our two interviews with her at the link.
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Martha C. McKay, women's rights activist, Democratic Party leader, and economist, was born in Winchester, MA, in 1920, grew up in St. Petersburg, FL, and received a degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1941. ...
Southern Oral History Program Seems appropriate today to reach a few days back and share a piece of an interview with former NC governor Jim Holshouser, worrying in a 1998 interview about the rift between social and fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party. We know how that turned out.
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Southern Oral History Program The Pearsall Plan, crafted by Thomas Pearsall, was North Carolina's answer to the Brown v. Board decision. According Elizabeth Pearsall, Thomas's wife and a 1988 interviewee, Thomas had misgivings about his plan, which let the state drag its feet on integration.
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Southern Oral History Program Today's podcast: John Siegenthaler, who, as an assistant to President Kennedy and his brother the Attorney General, tried to negotiate safe passage for Freedom Riders in Alabama and was beaten for his trouble.
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Southern Oral History Program And mark your calendars: the SOHP's Seth Kotch will join Frank Stasio on a Black History Month edition of WUNC's The State of Things on February 11 at noon and nine. Reminders will no doubt come.
Southern Oral History Program Texas GOP activist Nancy Palm discusses the role of women in politics in the context of her work in Harris County in the 1960s and 1970s.
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