Spencie Love Papers

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Spencie Love Papers

1950s-2000s

Collection contains letters, notes, photographs, oral histories, and other materials documenting the life of white historian Spencie Love's family history, as well as materials documenting her professional life. Cornelia Spencer Love ("Spencie") was a 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, a Black doctor who pioneered blood storage and plasma research. Throughout her career, she studied the Civil Rights movement.

2 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1200 items)

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Love, Spencie, 1949-

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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 dau...