Southern Oral History Program
Variant namesThe Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to a variety of fields and interviews that will render historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Tobacco, history, and memory: Storytelling and cultural grieving in eastern North Carolina, 1998-1999 (Abstract K.5). WorldCat record id: 49820098
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Segregation and integration of North Carolina athletics programs, 1998-2000 (Abstract K.6). WorldCat record id: 49820099
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Voices after the deluge: Oral history investigations of the great North Carolina flood, 1999 (Abstract K.9). WorldCat record id: 49820102
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Stephens-Lee High School, Asheville, N.C., 1998 (Abstract K.16). WorldCat record id: 54531860
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: School desegregation: Davidson student interviews, 1999 (Abstract K.11). WorldCat record id: 52296455
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Southern Louisiana environmentalism, 2000 (Abstract K.15). WorldCat record id: 52296460
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Asian voices, 1998 (Abstract K.14). WorldCat record id: 52296458
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: African Americans in Hancock County, Ga., 1988-2001 (Abstract K.10). WorldCat record id: 52296454
From the description of The Long Civil Rights Movement: The South Since the 1960s: Preserving the African American Experience in Pamlico County, N.C., 2007 (Series U.14). WorldCat record id: 437399625
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Terra Ceia Community, 1998 (Abstract K.18). WorldCat record id: 54531864
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: School desegregation in Charlotte, N.C., 2000s (Abstract K.13). WorldCat record id: 52296457
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Bob Gilgor's Mighty Tigers--Oral histories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School, 2000-2001 (Abstract K.17). WorldCat record id: 54531861
From the description of The Long Civil Rights Movement: The South Since the 1960s: Preserving the African American experience in Pamlico County, N.C., 2007 (Series U.14). WorldCat record id: 696014365
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: School desegregation: Davidson-Johnson C. Smith student interviews, 2001 (Abstract K.12). WorldCat record id: 52296456
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Cambodian community in Greensboro, N.C., 2000 (Abstract K.8). WorldCat record id: 49820101
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: History of gay men in Chapel Hill, N.C., 2000 (Abstract K.3). WorldCat record id: 49820095
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Desegregation and the inner life of Chapel Hill schools, 2001 (Abstract K.4). WorldCat record id: 49820097
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Tradition and development in Madison County's I-26 corridor, 2000-2001 (Abstract K.7). WorldCat record id: 49820100
From the description of The Long Civil Rights Movement: The South Since the 1960s: Economic justice in Charleston, S.C., 2008 (Series U.15). WorldCat record id: 696016646
From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: North Carolina churches, 1998-1999 (Abstract K.19). WorldCat record id: 54531865
In 1973, the History Dept. of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established an oral history program devoted to the study of the southern region of the United States. The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. Interviews are conducted by Program staff, graduate students, faculty members, and consultants. The Program also serves as a collecting agency, accepting donations of tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers.
From the description of Southern Oral History Program collection, 1973-2012. WorldCat record id: 27190182
In September 1973, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established an oral history program devoted to the study of the southern region. The Southern Oral History Program is engaged in the collection of interviews with individuals in North Carolina and in the South who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose consciousness and experience are not reflected in traditional written sources. The result is the preservation of information that exists only in the minds of living men and women, material which, if unrecorded, would soon be lost.
The Program has established projects in several areas-- individual biographies, southern women, workers and labor movements, contemporary politics, and North Carolina social history. In addition, the Program serves as a collecting agency; tapes and transcripts are donated to the Program by other researchers.
In 1994, a gift from Walter Royal Davis enabled the Southern Oral History Program and the Academic Affairs Library to establish the Davis Oral History Fund and to launch five projects aimed at understanding how North Carolinians have dealt with the changes that have transformed the state since the Great Depression. These projects focus on University history; North Carolina politics; business history; women's leadership and grassroots activism; and memory and community studies.
Interviews done directly under the auspices of the Southern Oral History Program are conducted by Program staff, graduate students, faculty members, and consultants. The structure of the interview depends on its purposes. In some cases, lengthy biographical memoirs are undertaken. In others, interviews focus only on the specific aspects of the respondent's experience that bear on the historical concerns of the interviewer.
Transcripts are available for many of the interviews. Inaudible phrases may be indicated in the transcripts by a blank space, appearing: ( ) . Ellipses indicate a pause in speech. False starts are omitted and punctuation is added for the sake of clarity. It should be noted that transcripts vary somewhat in style and appearance. Early transcripts were corrected by hand; in later ones, corrections have been typewritten. Abstracts or tape indexes exist for many interviews, and introductory biographical sketches have been prepared for some interviews. Some transcripts were returned to the interviewee for approval. If necessary, a revised transcript was prepared. In cases where transcripts have been significantly rewritten, a note to that effect is appended.
From the guide to the Southern Oral History Program Collection, 1973-2013, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
Role | Title | Holding Repository |
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Filters:
Relation | Name | |
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associatedWith | Ada Jenkins School (Davidson, N.C.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Amberg, Rob. | person |
associatedWith | American Folklife Center | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Birdsong | family |
associatedWith | Birdsong Family | family |
associatedWith | Caldwell, Edwin. | person |
associatedWith | Fleurnoy | family |
associatedWith | Friday, William C. | person |
associatedWith | Friday, William C. (William Clyde). | person |
associatedWith | Herzenberg, Joseph A., 1941- | person |
associatedWith | Jones | family |
associatedWith | Kenan | family |
associatedWith | Lau, Barbara. | person |
associatedWith | Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | McLendon, John B. | person |
associatedWith | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | corporateBody |
associatedWith | National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | North Mecklenburg High School (Mecklenburg County, N.C.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Obama, Barack. | person |
associatedWith | Roberts | family |
associatedWith | Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Stephens-Lee High School (Asheville, N.C.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Taylor, Kieran Walsh. | person |
associatedWith | Teer | family |
associatedWith | Terra Ceia Christian Reformed Church. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Terra Ceia Christian School. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) | corporateBody |
Place Name | Admin Code | Country | |
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North Carolina--Mecklenburg County | |||
Carrboro (N.C.) | |||
Cambodia | |||
North Carolina--Chapel Hill | |||
North Carolina | |||
North Carolina--Chapel Hill | |||
North Carolina | |||
Southern States | |||
Chapel Hill (N.C.) | |||
Asheville (N.C.) | |||
Georgia | |||
North Carolina--Chapel Hill | |||
North Carolina | |||
Chapel Hill (N.C.) | |||
Madison County (N.C.) | |||
North Carolina | |||
Pamlico County (N.C.) | |||
Charleston (S.C.) | |||
Pamlico County (N.C.) | |||
Charlotte (N.C.) | |||
Terra Ceia (N.C.) | |||
North Carolina | |||
North Carolina--Mecklenburg County | |||
North Carolina | |||
North Carolina--Orange County | |||
North Carolina | |||
Louisiana | |||
North Carolina | |||
United States | |||
North Carolina | |||
Chapel Hill (N.C.) | |||
North Carolina--Buncombe County | |||
United States | |||
United States | |||
Lincoln County (N.C.) | |||
United States | |||
Mecklenburg County (N.C.) | |||
Beaufort County (N.C.) | |||
North Carolina | |||
South Carolina | |||
Chapel Hill (N.C.) | |||
United States | |||
North Carolina--Mecklenburg County | |||
North Carolina | |||
North Carolina | |||
North Carolina | |||
Charlotte (N.C.) | |||
North Carolina--Lincoln County | |||
Segregation--North Carolina | |||
North Carolina | |||
Greensboro (N.C.) | |||
Hancock County (Ga.) | |||
Georgia--Hancock County | |||
North Carolina |
Subject |
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Floods |
Education |
Education |
African American athletes |
African American political activists |
African American presidential candidates |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
African American women |
Afriican Americans |
Agricultural laborers |
Agriculture |
Buddhist |
Busing for school integration |
Cambodian |
Cambodian Americans |
Cambodian Americans |
Christian life |
Civil rights |
Civil rights movement |
Civil rights movements |
College sports |
Community development |
Disaster relief |
Disasters |
Discrimination in employment |
Discrimination in sports |
Dutch Americans |
Environmental justice |
Express highways |
Farmers |
Gay men |
High school |
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 |
Hurricane Floyd, 1999 |
Immigrants |
Migration, Internal |
Labor movement |
Law and economic development |
Oral history |
Presidents |
Refugees |
Rescue work |
School integration |
Schools |
Segregation |
Segregation in education |
South Asians |
Sports |
Tobacco |
Tobacco |
Tobacco |
Tobacco farmers |
Occupation |
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Activity |
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Corporate Body
Active 1998
Active 1999