Experience as a black marine in World War II; among the first black police officers in Savannah (1947); W. W. Law and Rev. Mark Gilbert, civil rights activists; black officers could not arrest white suspects; Mayor Sidney Barnes and race relations;...
Tape 9, Side A This tape begins with a description of the start-up activities the summer of 1950 when Clark arrived in Chapel Hill. He reflects on his relationships with Billy Carmichael, Chancellor Robert Burton House, Claude Teague, including...
Hugh F. Rankin is a historian who research and taught at the University of North Carolina and later at Tulane. Begins with discussion of early schooling and first interests in history, followed by military experience and higher education at Elon...
Tape 7, Side A Clark begins this interview with some final remarks on his time at Vanderbilt and mentions the major developments which ensued after he left Vanderbilt for Chapel Hill. He mentions his trip to Guatemala before going to Chapel Hill...
Paul Hardin begins this interview by discussing his family and his background. His family has had Methodist roots for generations, and his father and his uncle both became Methodist pastors. Hardin tells stories about his childhood in the South,...
The interview centers on Abdul Rasheed's work as chief executive officer of the North Carolina Community Development Initiative, an organization founded in 1994 and funded by the state of North Carolina as well as a number of private entities. Key...
Sheryl Rollins is a retired attorney in Knoxville, Tenn. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and as a lawyer she has taken on many racial and sexual discrimination cases. She and her husband, Avon Rollins (director of the Beck African...
Calvin and Elizabeth Kytle were both born and raised in the South. Calvin spent his childhood in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, and Elizabeth grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. After graduating from Emory University and Valdosta...
In this second of two interviews, Albert Gore Sr. summarizes his senatorial career. He begins with his election to the House of Representatives in 1948. While there, many of the issues that would come to characterize his time in the Senate began to...
Discussion of Howell's early political work for Francis Pickens Miller; discussion of background, 1953 House of Delegates; discussion of the social reprisals against Howell for working against the Byrd machine; discussion of legal work done on...
Tape 5, Side A This tape begins with Clark's discussion of his adjustment to his transition to Vanderbilt including both the liabilities and the assets of the move. He mentions the problems that he found upon his arrival at Vanderbilt such as the...
Carlee Drye worked at the Alcoa aluminum plant in Badin, North Carolina, from the 1930s through the 1950s. An active participant in the establishment of a local union that later merged with the Steel Workers, Drye served as president of the local...
Ivie Clayton on Bill Friday's character and religious faith; Frank Porter Graham's appointment to the US Senate in 1949; Robinson and Friday's social and business relationship; Friday's relationship with NC legislature; Friday's leadership of UNC...
History of the Beloved Community Center; Family's involvement in Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. around the years of early integration; Educational experiences at Central High School, Cornell University and the Telluride...
John Seigenthaler grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, during the late 1920s and 1930s. He begins the interview by recalling his growing awareness of racial injustice in the South during the mid-1940s, explaining that his observations of racism...
Hiram Ward, a longtime member of the Republican Party, describes his involvement with the party and particularly with Sim DeLapp, Sr. He discusses his background and his career as a lawyer and judge; Sim DeLapp, John Wilkinson and J.E. Broyhill;...
