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Interview no. | G-0266 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.3. Southern Women: Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South |
Project description | Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians. |
Date | 13 and 27 November 1979 |
Interviewee | Lassiter, Gatha Horton, 1910- |
Interviewee occupation | Community organizers |
Interviewee DOB | 1910 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | A well-known community leader in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Gatha Horton Lassiter was interviewed over the course of two sessions. During her interview, she extensively discusses race relations and the divide between the university and the black community in Chapel Hill. Additionally, she recalls her involvement with the civil rights movement and voter registration. This interview was conducted in part for the book "Hope and Dignity: Older Black women of the South" with text by Emily Herring Wilson, photographs by Susan Mullally, and foreword by Maya Angelou, published in 1983 by Temple University Press. |
Citation | Interview with Gatha Horton Lassiter by Emily Herring Wilson, 13 and 27 November 1979 G-0266 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. | G0266_Audio_1 |