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Interview no. | L-0448 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | L.1. University of North Carolina: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews about the University of North Carolina, originally developed as part of the University's bicentennial celebration in 1993, but currently an ongoing project. Some interviews focus on specific aspects of university life; others document the birth and growth of particular schools, institutes, or programs within the university, including the Campus Y, the School of Medicine, the Dept. of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health, and the Institute of Government. Others record more general information about the institution, including women's athletics, student activism, civil rights, student life, and women faculty and administrators. Interviewees include members of University of North Carolina classes from the 1920s and 1930s; former and current professors and administration personnel, including historians who have studied or taught at the University; and former student activists, civil rights leaders, and other campus leaders. Also included are a series of interviews that William A. Link, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, conducted with family, friends, and associates of William C. Friday, in preparation for his biography, William Friday: Power, Purpose, & American Higher Education (1995). Major topics include the expansion of the University of North Carolina system from three institutions to sixteen, the establishment of a medical school at East Carolina University and a veterinary school at North Carolina State University, the role of the federal government in the affairs of the University, the interaction of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Office for Civil Rights with University administrators, intercollegiate athletics, the Dixie Classic basketball scandal, the North Carolina speaker ban law, and racial integration of the University. Some interviews also address Friday's early life and education; his role in the development of the National Humanities Center, the Research Triangle Park, and the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center; his involvement in antipoverty and literacy movements; and his work as head of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Fund and the Kenan Charitable Trust. Additional subjects of interest are the role of Friday and the University in state politics and Friday's work on the White House Task Force on Education, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of American Education, and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. There is also a small number of interviews about North Carolina politics and the University. Also included are a series of interviews relating to the role of minority faculty and women faculty on the campus between 1960 and 1990. Issues include hiring practices, tenure and promotion policies, department cultures, discrimination, and affirmative action. There are also interviews docusing on the role of Kenan Professors in the University. There are also interviews exploring the history of the School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals. |
Date | 24 August 2011 |
Interviewee | Basnight, Marc. |
Interviewee occupation | Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1947 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Guillory, Ferrel. |
Abstract | Ferrel Guillory and Marc Basnight’s conversation topics cover the span of former state senator Marc Basnight’s life and political career. Basnight spoke about his family roots in Eastern North Carolina. As a young man, he took over his father’s construction company on the Outer Banks. His first political experience was campaigning for John F. Kennedy. He discusses how in 1977, Governor Jim Hunt appointed him to the Board of Transportation in order for him to have a platform to discuss the conditions in Dare County, Elizabeth City, Currituck, Tyrrell, and Hyde. Basnight fondly remembers Walter Davis, who taught him about UNC Chapel Hill and served as a mentor and father figure. He speaks at length about his focus on raising money for higher education in North Carolina, and the various political figures he worked with and against on his mission. |
Citation | Interview number L-0448 from the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) at The Southern Historical Collection, The Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | L0448_Transcript |