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Object Description
Interview no. | L-0203 |
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 | February 12, 1990 |
Interviewee | Thornburg, Wilma. |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Link, William A. |
Abstract | Wilma Thornburg's early teaching career in Dallas, NC; description of Dallas; effects of the Depression on the people of Dallas; Latham Friday's (Bill Friday's father) community and church activities; Bill Friday's brother and sisters; Friday's childhood family life; Thornburg's memories of Friday in her seventh grade classroom; Friday's personality and ability to make friends; influence of the church on Friday; Friday's childhood leadership ability; Friday's participation in church youth group activities; strong sense of small-town community in Dallas. |
Subject Name |
Thornburg, Wilma. Friday family. Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Subject Geographic | Dallas (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. | L-0203 |