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Oral history interview with Leroy Magness, March 27, 1999 [electronic resource] : interview K-0438, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Summary:

Leroy Magness spent most of his life in Lincolnton, NC, about thirty-five miles from Charlotte. A poet, and a man who "didn't want to be a troublemaker," Magness has an easy relationship with his past as an African American in a segregated southern town. He did not participate in the civil rights movement, nor approve of those that did, believing that good behavior was a better catalyst for change than activism. This determination to avoid conflict lies at the heart of this interview, and, it seems, at the heart of Magness's character. He will not place blame for segregation, and his principal memory of desegregation was some trouble between white and black students.

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Record details

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:21:45.
Interview participants: Leroy Magness, interviewee; Michelle Markey, 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 Dec. 2, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 92 kilobytes, 149 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0438, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Michelle Markey. Original transcript: 34 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.
Subject:
Magness, Leroy, 1920-2007 > Interviews.
African American men > North Carolina > Lincolnton > Interviews.
African American men > North Carolina > Lincolnton > Attitudes.
African Americans > Segregation > North Carolina > Lincolnton.
Lincolnton (N.C.) > Race relations.
Lincolnton (N.C.) > Social life and customs.

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