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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0076 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | Columb, Doris W. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Longan, William. |
Abstract | Doris Columb discusses the Kanawha County, W.Va., textbook controversy of 1974. Key topics are the election of Alice Moore to the school board and subsequent events; the false or misleading information disseminated by the rabble-rousers; the background of the pro-textbook movement (of which she is a member), and their response; the Appalachian/West Virginian society and culture; and the economic and religious factors contributing to the mentality of the anti-textbook movement, along with their deficient understanding of education and child development. |
Subject Topical |
Prohibited books--West Virginia. Education--West Virginia--Charleston. |
Citation | Interview with Doris W. Columb by William Longan, 22 August 1975. B-0076 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0076 |