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Interview no. | L-0207 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | L.7. University of North Carolina: William Friday Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1990-1992, conducted by William A. Link, with family, friends, and associates of William C. Friday for his book William Friday: Power, Purpose, & American Higher Education (1995). Topics include the expansion of the University of North Carolina System; the role of the federal government university affairs, especially the Office of Civil Rights; intercollegiate athletics; the Dixie Classic basketball scandal; the Speaker Ban Law; and integration of the university. Some interviews address Friday's early life, education, and work outside the university. |
Date | 19 April 1991 |
Interviewee | Yoder, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton), 1934- |
Interviewee occupation | Journalists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Link, William A. |
Abstract | Ed Yoder's background and initial contact with William Friday; Yoder on Gordon Gray; Friday's personality as compared to Gray's; 1950s student life at UNC-Chapel Hill; Friday's relationship with the media; Yoder on Bob Spearman and Hugh Stevens; origins of the Speaker Ban; background of the ECU medical school controversy; differences between eastern North Carolina and the Piedmont; UNC's decline in political influence throughout the 1960s; Yoder on the UNC restructuring; Friday's quality of character; Friday's attachement to Frank Porter Graham; Yoder on the HEW desegregation case; Joseph Califano's role in the case. |
Subject Name |
University of North Carolina (System) Yoder, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton), 1934- Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Citation | Interview with Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder by William A. Link, 19 April 1991 L-0207, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | L0207_Audio_1 |