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Abstract | The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. The Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series O: Foundation History: North Carolina Fund contains interviews for a project coordinated by historians James Leloudis and Robert Korstad. The project focused on race, poverty, and the North Carolina Fund, a forerunner of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, and was conducted in conjuction with the No Easy Walk conference, held in Durham, N.C., in 1996. Interviewees include former volunteers, foundation officers, federal and state policy makers, and residents of communities touched by the North Carolina Fund's work. Interviewees assess the Fund's position as an intermediary between local organizations and communities and the federal government and private philanthropy and consider whether the Fund's experience might inform creative policy-making today. |
Creator | Southern Oral History Program. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Finding aid for Series O: Foundation History: North Carolina Fund (04007O) created and encoded by Laura Hart in March 2017.
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Back to TopIn 1973, the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established an oral history program devoted to the study of the southern region of the United States.
The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. Interviews are conducted by Program staff, graduate students, faculty members, and consultants. The Program also serves as a collecting agency, accepting donations of tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers.
Back to TopCoordinated by James Leloudis of the UNC Chapel Hill History Department and Robert Korstad of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, these interviews with former student volunteers, foundation officers, federal and state policy makers, and community residents were conducted as part of a project on race, poverty, and the North Carolina Fund (NCF). Also included are tapes and transcripts of sessions from a 1996 conference in Durham, NC, "No Easy Walk: Lessons and Legacies from the North Carolina Fund" and interviews conducted by UNC Chapel Hill students in 2011 under the direction of Dr. Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews highlight the NCF's position as an intermediary between local organizations and communities, and between federal government and private philanthropy. Respondents discuss their personal and professional backgrounds, their connections to and experiences with the NCF and its impact, details about their respective communities, and issues of poverty, inequality, and public policy. The NCF, established in 1963 and funded by the Ford Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, and federal agencies, was a forerunner of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. It established and supported community action agencies, in addition to operating manpower development programs, conducting research on poverty, training community organizers, and sending teams of student volunteers into rural communities to help residents fight poverty and racism.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Back to TopThe Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series O: Foundation History: North Carolina Fund contains interviews for a project coordinated by historians James Leloudis and Robert Korstad. The project focused on race, poverty, and the North Carolina Fund, a forerunner of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, and was conducted in conjuction with the No Easy Walk conference, held in Durham, N.C., in 1996. Interviewees include former volunteers, foundation officers, federal and state policy makers, and residents of communities touched by the North Carolina Fund's work. Interviewees assess the Fund's position as an intermediary between local organizations and communities and the federal government and private philanthropy and consider whether the Fund's experience might inform creative policy-making today.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Linda Powell Addo, African American volunteer, with interviewer Gretchen Givens. 29 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0001 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Dorothy Amey, African American volunteer, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 10 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0002 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Ann Atwater, African American community organizer, with interviewers Jennifer Fiumara and Mary Cleary. 8 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0003 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Ann Atwater, African American community organizer, with interviewer Chris Gioia. 7 December 1995
Digital Folder O-0004 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Billy E. Barnes, white photographer and political activist, with interviewer Chris Gioia. 12 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0005 |
Digitized audio |
Mildred Berkeley, African American volunteer, with interviewer Erin Parrish. 7 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0006 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Brenda Kay Johnson Bishop, African American volunteer, with interviewer Karen Raley. 14 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0007 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Joyce Clayton, African American volunteer, with interviewer Mary Cleary. 15 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0008 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Emily R. Coble, white volunteer, with interviewer Emily Berry. 11 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0009 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Arthur R. Cogswell, white architect, with interviewer Fred P. Parker, IV. 27 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0010 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Ferne Thorpe Dixon, African American volunteer, with interviewer Sheila A. Jordan. 8 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0011 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
John Ehle, white author, with interviewer Steve Keadey. 24 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0012 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Johnette I. Fields, white volunteer, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 18 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0013 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Howard Fuller, African American political activist, with interviewer Chris Gioia. 18 March 1996
Digital Folder O-0014 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Nathan Garrett, African American NGO director and political activist, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 10 January 1996
Digital Folder O-0015 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
I. Harding Hughes, white public officer, with interviewer Jennifer Fiumara. 14 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0016 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
John Justice, white political activist, with interviewer Sean O'Keefe. 10 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0017 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Bill Lail, white NGO director, with interviewer Kelly M. Meshaw. 29 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0018 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Thomas W. Lambeth, white political activist, with interviewer Steve Keadey. 20 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0019 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Lois M. McKinney, white artisan, with interviewer Ronan Kyle Peterson. 4 December 1995
Digital Folder O-0020 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Hollis Allen Miller, white volunteer, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 9 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0021 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
H. C. Moretz, white NGO director and political activist, with interviewer Ronan Kyle Peterson. 11 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0022 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Bernice Norwood, white volunteer, with interviewer Erin Parrish. 2 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0023 |
Digitized audio |
Susie R. Powell, African American volunteer, with interviewer Gretchen Givens. 13 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0024 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Diane Sasson, white volunteer, with interviewer Emily Berry. 28 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0025 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Robert Seymour, white religious leader, with interviewer Erin Parrish. 10 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0026 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Katherine P. Shelburne, white volunteer, with interviewer Sheila A. Jordan. 14 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0027 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Walter Smith, NGO director, with interviewer Fred P. Parker, IV. 1 December 1995
Digital Folder O-0028 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Betty Whitson, white political activist, with interviewer Ronan Kyle Peterson. 22 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0029 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Lonnie Wilson, African American community organizer, with interviewer Chris Gioia. 24 October 1995
Digital Folder O-0030 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
S. Esther Tyler Camm, African American volunteer, with interviewer Karen Raley. 15 November 1995
Digital Folder O-0031 |
Digitized transcript
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Annie Rose Drake, African American librarian, with interviewer Karen Kruse Thomas. 14 December 1996
Digital Folder O-0032 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Eva M. Clayton, health services administrator. No Easy Walk Conference. 13 December 1996
Digital Folder O-0033 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Howard Fuller, African American political activist. No Easy Walk Conference. 14 December 1996
Digital Folder O-0034 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Si Kahn, Jewish civil rights activist and musician. No Easy Walk Conference. 13 December 1996
Digital Folder O-0035 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Terry Sanford, white politician and college president. No Easy Walk Conference. 13 December 1996
Digital Folder O-0036 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Billy E. Barnes, white photographer and political activist, with interviewer Elizabeth Gritter. 7 October 2003
Digital Folder O-0037 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Billy E. Barnes, white photographer and political activist, with interviewer Elizabeth Gritter. 6 November 2003
Digital Folder O-0038 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Wilsona Lee Burke, white teacher and volunteer, with interviewer Gwen Barlow. 8 March 2011
Digital Folder O-0039 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |
Richard Loeppert, white professor, with interviewer Gwen Barlow. 2 April 2011
Digital Folder O-0040 |
Digitized transcript Digitized audio |