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Interview no. | L-0187 |
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 | 18 April 1991 |
Interviewee | Pratt, John H., judge. |
Interviewee occupation | Judges |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Link, William A. |
Abstract | Early litigation involving Title VI (Federal desegregation statute) and the Adams Case; Judge John Pratt's reluctance to involve the courts; scope of the original Adams litigation; impact of Title VI enforcement on raditionally African American colleges; why Pratt felt compelled to enforce Title VI; educational integrity of North Carolina; why the Office of Civil Rights singled out North Carolina; Pratt on Joseph Califano; Pratt's interpretation of the Martin Gerry deposition; Pratt's opinion of Judge Dupree's Adams Case rulings; differences bettwen attempts to desegregate higher education and the desegregation of primary and secondary schools. |
Subject Topical | College integration--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Pratt, John H., judge. Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Citation | Interview with Judge John H. Pratt by William A. Link, 18 April 1991 L-0187, 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. | L0187_Audio_1 |