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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0080 |
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 21, 1975 |
Interviewee | Stump, F. Douglas. |
Interviewee occupation | School administrators |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Longan, William. |
Abstract | Doug Stump, pro-textbook activist in Kanawha County, W.Va., describes the controversial events from his perspective, including the role of the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society in encouraging the acrimony, and the violence and intimidation perpetrated upon the defenders of the challenged textbooks. He discusses the efforts to assemble review committees, the nature and influence of the textbook opponents, and Appalachian culture. |
Subject Topical |
Prohibited books--West Virginia. Education--West Virginia--Charleston. West Virginia--Race relations. |
Citation | Interview with F. Douglas Stump by William Longan, 21 August 1975. B-0080 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0080 |