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Oral history interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003 interview U-0005, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003 [electronic resource] : interview U-0005, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview U-0005, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003 (portion title)
Jones, James Arthur, 1922- (interviewee). Lowery, Malinda Maynor. (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:

James A. Jones, former principal of Prospect School in Robeson County, N.C., describes how integration affected this majority-Native American community. A redistricting controversy in the late 1960s revealed how much Prospect's Native American community valued their educational traditions, and they resented what they saw as attacks on those traditions, whether in the form of redrawn district lines or the enforcement of racial integration. Jones believes that mergers and integration have damaged Prospect School, dissipating its sense of community and poisoning the school with violent racial animosity. Like many older educators, Jones remembers a time of calm, when close ties between students, teachers, and parents strengthened his community. That time, he fears, is long gone. Some passages of this interview which do not deal explicitly with race in the context of education were not excerpted. Interviewers interested in this kind of information should look at the interview in its entirety.

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

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General Note:
Duration: 01:34:22.
Interview participants: James Arthur Jones, interviewee; Malinda Maynor, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. 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. 99 kilobytes, 172 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0005, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sharon Caughill. Original transcript: 44 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.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Subject:
Jones, James Arthur, 1922- > Interviews.
Prospect School (Prospect, Robeson County, N.C.)
African Americans > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County) > Relations with Indians > 20th century.
Indian children > Education > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County) > 20th century.
Indian educators > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County) > Interviews.
Indians of North America > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County) > Ethnic identity > 20th century.
Lumbee Indians > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County)
School integration > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County)
Tuscarora Indians > North Carolina > Prospect (Robeson County)
Prospect (Robeson County, N.C.) > Race relations.
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Oral histories.