B-0001
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Link to Interview |
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/list/uuid:1a0e8729-66f4-4720-99c6-037c9f45331a |
Interview no. |
B-0001 |
Restrictions |
No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project |
B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Date |
5-Jan-76 |
Interviewee |
Blackwell, Gordon Williams, 1911-2004 |
Interviewee occupation |
Academics |
Interviewee DOB |
1911 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Whites |
Interviewer |
Glass, Brent D. |
Abstract |
Early life, education and friends; parents' background; undergraduate years at Furman; graduate work at UNC; rural rehabilitation research for New Deal; PhD from Harvard; Carl Zimmerman, Sorokin, Bob Merton, Talcott Parsons, W.I. Thomas; WPA rural research in DC with Woofter; work with Greenville County Council for Community Development while chairman of sociology department at Furman; evaluation of Greenville's growth from 1930-75; work with Office of Civilian Defense during WWII; Dr. Odum; director of the Institute for the Research in Social Sciences at UNC, succeeding Dr. Odum; relationship between Dr. Odum and Frank Graham; regionalism and study of community; president of Women's College in Greensboro and experience with 1960 sit-ins there; president of Florida State University, 1960-65; personal guidelines as an administrator; relationships between southern universities and society; Blackwell's children; part-time farming in the South study; summary of achievements; relationship between Furman and State Baptist Convention; plans for the future; wife. |
Subject Topical |
Southern States--Rural conditions |
Subject Name |
Furman University. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute for Research in Social Science. |
Citation |
Interview with Gordon Williams Blackwell by Brent D. Glass, 5 January 1976. B-0001 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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