Susan Massengale collection, 1987-1995.

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Susan Massengale collection, 1987-1995.

1987-1995

https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb6651820

The Susan Massengale Collection contains videotapes from documentary film productions affiliated with Susan Massengale, who produced and directed documentaries on North Carolina subjects for the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television from 1980-1997. Film productions represented in the collection include Step It Up and Go: Blues in the Carolinas (1989), a documentary film that traces the development of blues music in the Carolinas; Boogie in Black and White (1988), a documentary film about the making of Pitch a Boogie Woogie, a film shot in Greenville, N.C. in 1947 with an all African American cast; an untitled production on Cherokee Indians and Joyce Dugan, who was elected Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in 1995; and an untitled production on Black Mountain College, an experimental arts college that was active in western North Carolina from 1933-1957.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658515

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Dugan, Joyce, 1952-

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"Former Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation, a teacher and former superintendent of schools, Joyce Dugan has been a mover and a shaper. Elected to office in 1995, Dugan advocated for employment rights for the Cherokee and argued that entrepreneurial efforts by the Cherokee should be rewarded by hiring rights and management placement for qualified individuals. She worked to spread the operation of government to a body of advisors, rather than continue a practice that ga...