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Oral history interview with Edith Warren, August 28, 2002 interview K-0601, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Summary: Edith Warren, a state congresswoman representing North Carolina's Eighth District, can boast of a number of firsts: she was the first female principal in Pitt County and became the county's first female commissioner. In this interview, she describes the background that led her into education and politics, but spends most of her time describing the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd, which devastated the region in 1996. Spared serious damage to her own property, Warren was determined to help her community. She did so in ways big and small, taking food to needy residents and struggling with the state government to release funds held up by the state government. Researchers will learn a lot about Warren's character, Hurricane Floyd, and some of the difficulties that small communities face when dealing with big problems.

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:07:08.
Interview participants: Edith Warren, interviewee; Leda Hartman, interviewer.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. 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.
Title from menu page (viewed on March 7, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 100.5 kilobytes, 122 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0601, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sarah Bryan. Original transcript: 27 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:
Warren, Edith D 1937- Interviews
Disaster relief North Carolina
Disasters North Carolina
Flood damage North Carolina
Floods North Carolina
Hurricane Floyd, 1999
Hurricanes North Carolina
Women educators North Carolina Biography
Women legislators North Carolina Biography
Women legislators North Carolina Interviews
Women North Carolina Biography
Genre:
Oral histories.

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