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Object Description
Interview no. | K-0590 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.13. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Voices after the Deluge, the Great North Carolina Flood |
Project description | Interviews, 1999-2003, with flood victims, rescue workers, relief workers, ministers, farmers, farm workers, small-business owners, environmental monitors, and political leaders in eastern North Carolina about the devastating flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Topics include the toll of the flood on human lives; disruptions to community and sense of place; political response to the disaster at local, state, and national levels; public health and environmental issues; the effect of the disaster on the region's most vulnerable residents; and the experiences of relief workers. Some interviewees offer parallels between the hurricane and other tragedies, particularly 9/11. |
Date | May 30, 2001 |
Interviewee | Willis, Johnny Mack. |
Interviewee occupation | Religious leaders |
Interviewee DOB | 1955 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hartman, Leda. |
Abstract | Raised by grandmother in Grifton; grandfather was very light-skinned and may have passed for white; work history; Cypress Glen Retirement Community; experience during the Hurricaine Floyd flood; rescue of senior citizens; Southern Baptists and Methodists help rebuild his church; FEMA; white pastor of First Baptist Church driven from his congregation for assisting African Americans. |
Subject Topical |
Baptists--North Carolina--Clergy. Clergy--North Carolina. Hurricane Floyd, 1999. Floods--North Carolina. Hurricanes--North Carolina. Older people--North Carolina. Disaster relief--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. First Baptist Church (Grifton, N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | K-0590 |