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Interview no. | K-0256 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewer and interviewee required to use interview. |
Project | K.2.1. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Overview Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1998-1999, chiefly conducted by David Cecelski as part of the Listening for a Change project, which explores dramatic changes in North Carolina since World War II. The overview project is a wide-ranging component of the larger project and involves interviewees who try to explain the changes while conveying a strong sense of the diversity and richness of the state's past. |
Date | 6 December 1998 |
Interviewee | Hardy, Otis. |
Interviewee occupation |
Prisoners Cooks |
Interviewee DOB | 1947 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Cecelski, David S. |
Abstract | Inmate life at Central Prison, Raleigh, NC and at other, smaller state prisons in NC, 1980-present; black life in South Carolina, 1940s-1950s; Nation of Islam in New Jersey and New York; inmate work programs, NC; baking and prison kitchens; Governor's Mansion, Raleigh, NC; Christianity and Islam in NC prisons; discovering a gift for baking that he pursued in the kitchens of these prisons, where he gained a great notoriety for his skills; promotion to chief baker at the Governor's Mansion -- one of the most prestigious jobs for "trustys" in the prison system. |
Subject Name | Hardy, Otis. |
Citation | Interview with Otis Hardy by David S. Cecelski, 6 December 1998 K-0256, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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