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Interview no. | L-0325 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | L.2. University of North Carolina: Anne Queen and the Campus Y |
Project description | Interviews, 1990-2010, about the Campus Y and Anne Queen, its director, 1964-1975. The Campus Y, a student organization founded in 1859, was active in integrating the University of North Carolina's undergraduate program, the local civil rights movement, Vietnam War protests, overturning the Speaker Ban Law, the Foodworkers' Strikes of 1969 and 1970, anti-apartheid work, and other major social movements. Interviewees include former Y student leaders, alumni, staff, and University administrators, who focus on the significance of the Y, with reflections on social movements, the development of social consciousness, staff support, student leadership and community, and work in post-college life. |
Date | 28 July 2010 |
Interviewee | Jackson, Walter A. |
Interviewee occupation | Business owners |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Vaughan, Hudson. |
Abstract | Walter Jackson, member of the Campus Y in 1963-1968, was one of seventeen African Americans in his freshman class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jackson was first connected to the Campus Y through Freshman Camp. In this interview, Jackson discusses the impact the Y had on his social, intellectual and personal development. Topics include: Norm Gustaveson, a staff member at the Y who convinced Jackson not to leave the University; the acceptance Jackson experienced from the staff and the community of the Campus Y contrasted the isolation, and rejection he experienced from the greater UNC student body; Freshman Camp; Excelsior; the Speaker Ban; Vietnam protests; Civil Rights protests. Jackson describes the Y community as inclusive, caring, and intellectually stimulating. Jackson attributes Gustaveson and the Campus Y as the reason he has a degree from the University of Chapel Hill. Jackson later served in Vietnam, and currently owns IDEAS, a coffee shop in Durham founded on the fundamentals of dialogue and discussion values instilled by the Campus Y. |
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 |
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Interview no. | L0325_Audio |