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Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001 interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001 [electronic resource] : interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001 (portion title)
Interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Battle, Fred. (interviewee). Gilgor, Bob. (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary:

Fred Battle recalls growing up and attending school in segregated Chapel Hill, NC, and taking his experiences to college in Greensboro, where he participated in civil rights protests. Battle describes the pre-integration African American community as one in orbit around the all-black Lincoln High School and the church. Battle fears that these two institutions lack the character they once had: schools are losing their moral character, and churches are the most racially segregated sites in any community. Battle believes that racial progress has faltered since the 1960s and 1970s. This interview offers a useful gauge of the character of the African American community.

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  • Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:13:25.
Interview participants: Fred Battle, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.
Text encoded by Natalia Smith. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
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Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 63.9 kilobytes, 134 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0525, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 12 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Subject:
Battle, Fred > Interviews.
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
African American students > Education (Secondary) > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > 20th century.
African Americans > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > Interviews.
African Americans > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > Attitudes.
African Americans > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations > North Carolina.
Segregation in education > North Carolina > Chapel Hill.
Genre:
Oral histories.