Paddy Bowman Audio Recordings, 1980

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Summary

Creator:
Bowman, Paddy, 1947-
Abstract:

Audio recordings, 1980, made by white folklorist and educator Paddy Bowman that contain an interview with playwright, professor, and humanitarian, Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981), as well as audio from an auction in Siler City, N.C. In the interview, Green discusses the civil rights movement and race relations in North Carolina and the author Zora Neale Hurston who audited one of Green's classes at the University of North Carolina in the late 1930s before UNC was desegregated. Green convened the class at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., so that Hurston, who was then a professor at the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, N.C., (today North Carolina Central University), could attend. The collection also includes a letter from Paddy Bowman to folklorist and UNC professor, Daniel W. Patterson, that contains details about the contents of the recordings found in the collection.

Extent:
4 items
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

Paddy Bowman (1947-) is a white folklorist and educator. She is the founding director of Local Learning, a national network for folk arts in education. She received her master's degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scope and content:

Audio recordings, 1980, made by white folklorist and educator Paddy Bowman that contain an interview with playwright, professor, and humanitarian, Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981), as well as audio from an auction in Siler City, N.C. In the interview, Green discusses the civil rights movement and race relations in North Carolina and the author Zora Neale Hurston who audited one of Green's classes at the University of North Carolina in the late 1930s before UNC was desegregated. Green convened the class at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., so that Hurston, who was then a professor at the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, N.C., (today North Carolina Central University), could attend. Audio recordings are on audiocassette. The collection also includes a letter from Paddy Bowman to folklorist and UNC professor, Daniel W. Patterson, that contains details about the contents of the recordings found in the collection.

Acquisition information:

Received from Paddy Bowman circa 1989 (Acc. 103532)

Processing information:

This summary description was created in January 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

Updated by: Anne Wells, May 2019

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Paddy Bowman Audio Recordings #20110, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu