U-1018
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U-1018
File Format:
Link to Web File - url
Link to Interview |
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:2e214546-116b-4d6c-b3af-bc15f60180b3 |
Interview no. |
U-1018 |
Title |
Interview with Carol Freeman, 2013 |
Project |
U.1. Long Civil Rights Movement: Individual Biographies |
Date |
29 March 2013 |
Interviewee |
Freeman, Carol, 1948- |
Interviewee occupation |
Librarians Teachers |
Interviewee DOB |
1948 |
Interviewer |
Gilmore, Tyler. |
Abstract |
Overview of education; life in Chapel Hill in the 1960s; work as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; appointment to Vice President of Academic Affairs in 1972; leadership in advancing desegregation in the UNC system schools; establishment of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies; difficulties in hiring black faculty and raising admission rates of black students; involvement in the Adams v. Califano case and compliance with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in fully desegregating the university system; memories of the Food Workers’ Strike in 1969; activity in preserving the ROTC program and creating the curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense; reflections on the current controversy surrounding the Department of African and Afro-American Studies in the aftermath of the Martin report and athletic scandal. |
Citation |
Interview with Carol Freeman by Tyler Gilmore, 29 March 2013 U-1018, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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