Collection, 1974.

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Collection, 1974.

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Live recordings of John Snipes, African-American old-time two- finger and clawhammer fretless banjo player and Dink Roberts (1895- ), African-American old-time banjo player, both of Haw River, Alamance Co., N.C., and Joe and Odell Thompson, African-American fiddle and banjo player from Mebane, Orange Co., N.C. The recordings include old-time tunes and song from both African-American and Anglo-American fiddle and banjo traditions of the Carolina Piedmont.

4 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7240918

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994

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Snipes, John

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Roberts, Dink, 1894-1989

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Conway, Cecelia

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Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C. From the guide to the Cecelia Conway Papers, 1983-1987, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alte...

Thompson, Joe, 1918-2012

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Thompson, Tommy A.

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