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[Identification of item], in the Spencie Love Papers #5652, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Spencie Love in June 2016 (Acc. 102606).

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• Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
• Drew, Charles, 1904-1950.
• Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-1981.
• Love, Spencie, 1949-

Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie") was a white historian and former director the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program. Her dissertation and subsequent book, "One Blood," documented the life the death of Charles R. Drew, an Black doctor who pioneered blood storage and plasma research. Throughout her career, she studied the Civil Rights movement. Love was the great-grandaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a writer and leader in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the daughter of James Spencer Love, who founded Burlington Industries in Burlington, NC.

This collection contains letters, notes, and photographs documenting Spencie Love's family history, as well as materials documenting her professional life. Materials related to her family include copies of letters, family histories, and recollections authored by Cornelia Spencer Love (Spencie's Aunt), as well as photographs taken of the Love House in Chapel Hill, N.C., which was given to the Southern Oral History Program. Materials on Love's professional life include report cards, transcripts, articles and reviews of "One Blood," Love's book tracing the life of the Black surgeon Dr. Charles Drew. Also contains correspondence, slides, and photographs with Dr. Drew's extended family, including Waddell Avery, Parnell Avery, and Hazel Avery. Other professional material includes correspondence with historians, editors, and reviewers, and invitations and programs from conferences and speaking opportunities. The collection contains recorded oral histories and video recordings with family members such as James Spencer Love, Cornelia Spencer Love, and others related to Love's research, including Waddell Avery, Hunter Murchison, John Hope Franklin, and Ethel P. "Earny" Earnhardt. Additionally, Love recorded many interviews with Jim Lawson, a professor and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) member who studied nonviolence, as well as his family and friends. She aimed to turn these interviews into a biography, but never received his formal authorization.

• Photographs (PF-5652/1-11)
• Audiocassettes (C-5652/1-22)
• Videotapes (VT-5652/1-4)
• Music Compact Discs (CD-5652/1-10)
• Digital Video Discs (DVD-5652/1-3)