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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Anne McKeithen Papers on Listening to Color #5701, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Anne McKeithen in 2016 (Acc. 102640).

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Processed by: Jodi Berkowitz, October 2016

Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, October 2016

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• African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Moore County--History--20th century.
• McKeithen, Anne, 1946-
• North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
• School integration--North Carolina--Moore County--History--20th century.

Anne McKeithen, of Charlottesville, Va., grew up in Aberdeen, N.C. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McKeithen is a writer, poet, journalist, and librarian.

The collection consists of files created by Anne McKeithen in the course of writing her book, Listening to Color: Blacks and Whites in Aberdeen, North Carolina. McKeithen conducted interviews with individuals about their experiences as residents of Aberdeen while schools were segregated and following desegregation. Files contain interview transcriptions and notes, research notes and observations, and drafts.

• DF-5701/1-4