B-0081 |
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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0081 |
Restrictions | Closed. No release form received. |
Project | B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Project description | Biographical interviews, 1962-1983, aimed at balancing the lack of personal letters and diaries, which are becoming increasingly scarce in the public record. Interviewees include educators, business leaders, political activists, professional workers, authors, artists, homemakers, tobacco workers, domestic servants, and others in North Carolina and the southern region. |
Date | August 22, 1975 |
Interviewee | Walters. |
Interviewee occupation | Religious leaders |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Longan, William. |
Abstract | Reverend Walters defends the Kanawha textbooks from the charges brought against them. As a religious leader himself, he discusses the cultural, religious, and educational factors that have resulted in the attitudes of the anti-textbook protestors, including fundamentalism and the fear of the written word and political conservatism, and racism. He implies that Reverend Horan (see interview B-0077) is basically illiterate. Walters also mentions the way in which the issue has grown to be a national one, and his own philosophy of education. |
Subject Topical |
Prohibited books--West Virginia. Education--West Virginia--Charleston. West Virginia--Race relations. |
Citation | Interview with Walters by William Longan, 22 August 1975. B-0081 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0081 |