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Interview no. | L-0327 |
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 | 17 March 2010 |
Interviewee | Mayo, Gerald. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Vaughan, Hudson. |
Abstract | Gerald Mayo attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1954-1958 and served as a co-president of the Campus Y in 1957. Mayo’s involvement with the Campus Y began at Freshman Camp and lasted throughout his time as a student at UNC. Mayo remembers the Y as a very busy and active student organization. Through the Y, Mayo helped lead the push to integrate the university. Alongside director Claude Shotts and other students, Mayo helped tutor and prepare the first three African American students for their experience at the UNC. He and other Y members lived with the African Americans during their freshman year. Mayo also assisted in the development of the campus YWCA. Mayo recognizes the Y as a place that promoted universal health care and education, values that remain an integral part of his social consciousness. The most valuable skill Mayo acquired from the Y was learning how to vocalize intellectual and socially conscious beliefs. After college Mayo served on a committee for the Southeastern National Y. He also served as a jet fighter, and then later became an aviation litigator. |
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. | L0327_Audio |