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Object Description
Interview no. | O-0039 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | O. Foundation History: North Carolina Fund |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1996, coordinated by James Leloudis and Robert Korstad as part of a project on race, poverty, and the North Carolina Fund, a forerunner of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, in relation to the No Easy Walk conference, held in Durham, N.C., in 1996. Interviewees include former volunteers, foundation officers, federal and state policy makers, and residents of communities touched by the Fund's work. Interviewees assess the Fund's position as an intermediary between local organizations and communities and the federal government and private philanthropy and consider whether the Fund's experience might inform creative policy-making today. |
Date | March 8 2011 |
Interviewee | Burke, Wilsona Lee. |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Volunteers |
Interviewee DOB | 1944 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Barlow, Gwen. |
Abstract | ABSTRACT – WILSONA BURKE Interviewee: Wilsona Burke Interviewer: Gwen Barlow Interview Date: March 8, 2011 Location: Forest Hills Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina Length: 58:48 Overview of family background and educational background; life at college; interest in North Carolina Volunteers; application and interview process for the Volunteers program; attitude and relation toward poverty before involvement in the Fund Volunteers program; orientation for the program; interactions within her volunteer group; interactions with others from the Fund and volunteers in other counties; activities she and her team were assigned to do in Avery County; recreation and tutoring activities for both children and adult education; talking with families and going into homes as well as porch sitting; taking kids to Tweetsie Railroad; interactions with mountain communities; interactions with county officials; racial issues in communities in mountains and within group. |
Citation | Interview with Wilsona Burke by Gwen Barlow, March 8 2011 O-0039, 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. | O0039_Transcript |