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Oral history interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002 interview R-0170, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002 [electronic resource] : interview R-0170, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002 (portion title)
Interview R-0170, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Beavers, Leroy, 1951- (interviewee). Beavers, Leroy. (interviewee). Taylor, Kieran Walsh. (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).

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Leroy Beavers Jr., recalls segregation and integration in Savannah, Georgia. Beavers walks the reader through a history of the city, from its golden years in the 1950s, when African Americans thrived in a self-contained community, to the decay of the 1960s and the damage he sees as having been brought about by integration. Beavers condemns integration, calling it "a genocide of a social life ... where people had just a pure natural respect for each other." Beavers maintains that the closely-knit black community unraveled because new opportunities tempted African Americans and the spirit of self-reliance faded. A proud community slumped as drugs and crime infested black neighborhoods, and African Americans began to discriminate against one another. This crowd of social pathologies gathers on Martin Luther King Street, a name choice Beavers bitterly condemns. A bristling attack on integration, this interview provides an interesting perspective on the legacy of integration in a southern city.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

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Duration: 00:45:55.
Interview participants: Leroy Beavers, interviewee; Leroy Beavers Sr., interviewee; Kieran Taylor, interviewer.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 28, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 104 kilobytes, 84.0 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series R, Special research projects, interview R-0170, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by T. Altizer. Original transcript: 19 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.

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Beavers, Leroy, 1951- > Interviews.
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African American barbers > Georgia > Savannah > Interviews.
African Americans > Segregation > Georgia > Savannah.
African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > Social conditions.
Savannah (Ga.) > Race relations.

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