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Object Description
Interview no. | J-0012 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | J. Legal Professions |
Project description | Interviews, 1991-1998, conducted by students of the University of North Carolina School of Law, with North Carolina lawyers and judges, some of whom are also politicians. Topics include interviewees' personal and professional lives; thoughts about the law and the legal profession; childhood experiences; memories of World War II or the Vietnam War; college and law school experiences at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere; memorable cases; legal ethics; racial segregation; school integration; civil rights law; work with Julius L. Chambers; women in the legal profession; and the death penalty. |
Date | 4 February 1994, 25 February 1994 |
Interviewee | Burgwyn, W. H. S. (William Hyslop Sumner), 1916-1996. |
Interviewee occupation |
Attorneys Judges |
Interviewee DOB | 1916 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Warren, Nancy. |
Subject Topical |
Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs. Father and sons. Legal ethics--North Carolina. North Carolina--Politics and government. North Carolina--Trials, litigation, etc. Northampton County (N.C.) Sentences (Criminal procedure)--North Carolina. Storytellers--North Carolina. Women law students--North Carolina. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. |
Subject Name |
Burgwyn, W. H. S. (William Hyslop Sumner), 1886-1977. Burgwyn, W. H. S. (William Hyslop Sumner), 1916-1996. |
Citation | Interview with William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn by Nancy Warren, 4 and 25 February 1994 J-0012, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | J-0012_1_1 |