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Interview no. | L-0141 |
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 | 3 October 1990 |
Interviewee | Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Interviewee DOB | 1920 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Link, William A. |
Abstract | Bill Friday's earliest childhood memories; memories of first grade; Friday's memories of his seventh grade teacher (Wilma Thornburg); Friday's participation in athletics in school; the effect of the Great Depression on Friday; Friday's relationship with his father; Friday's description of his father; Friday's memories of his grandfather; Fridya's family background; description of Dallas, NC (Friday's hometown); Friday on the textile mill strikes in Gastonia, NC and their effect on his family; Edward Kidder Graham's resignation as chancellor of Greensboro; impact of the church on Bill Friday's childhood; effect of state and local politics on Friday as a child; segregation in Friday's childhood; Friday's memories of his college freshmen year at Wake Forest; Friday's involvement in student government at Wake Forest and NC State. |
Subject Name | Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Citation | Interview with William C. (William Clyde) Friday by William A. Link, 3 October 1990 L-0141, 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. | L0141_Audio_1 |