Love, Spencie, 1949-

Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie") was a white historian and former director the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program. Her dissertation and subsequent book, "One Blood," documented the life the death of Charles R. Drew, an Black doctor who pioneered blood storage and plasma research. Throughout her career, she studied the Civil Rights movement. Love was the great-grandaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a writer and leader in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the daughter of James Spencer Love, who founded Burlington Industries in Burlington, NC.