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Interview no. | R-0741 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.41. Special Research Projects: 'Tobe': Visions of Childhood, Race, and Rural Life in Children's Literature |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2014, by professor Benjamin Filene with individuals and relatives of those involved with or depicted in Stella Gentry Sharpe’s 1939 book, Tobe. Topics include life in Goshen, North Carolina, inclusion in the book’s photographs, family life and connections, country living, and the effects of the book on the community and families involved. Some interviewees offer reflections on pictured family members who have passed away. |
Date | 18 July 2012 |
Interviewee | Snow, Helen. |
Interviewee occupation | Librarians |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Filene, Benjamin. |
Abstract | In this interview, Filene is talking with Helen Snow. Snow attended Hillsborough School and was a fifth grade pupil of Stella Sharpe in the 1950s. She attended Duke University and the Universtity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming the North Carolina librarian at the Greensboro Public Library. Snow does not remember much about Sharpe, other than she was rather strict and had command of the classroom. She does talk about growing up in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s and did not realize just how segregated she was from African Americans until she was older. She remembers talk of integrating schools when she was in the eighth grade and thought it would be easy, never realizing how difficult it would actually be. Regarding the book, Snow mentions that it was an accurate portrayal of rural life in the Hillsborough area. It was also a good thing the book was printed because she does not remember many books with African American juvenile protagonists. During her job as the North Carolina librarian, she says that she had a copy of the book in the collection but it never circulated that widely. |
Citation | Interview with Helen Snow by Benjamin Filene, 18 July 2012 R-0741, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collections, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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