Civil rights movements -- North Carolina
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Kelly M. Alexander, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0233
Overview
The collection consists of papers generated primarily by Kelly M. Alexander, junior, as a result of his work with the NAACP at the local, state and national levels. Other papers in this collection were generated by Mrs. Margaret Alexander (widow of Kelly M. Alexander, senior), and Alfred Alexander (Kelly junior's brother) in his capacity as president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chapter of the NAACP. The collection contains a wide variety of documentation concerning nearly all aspects of the...
Dates:
1953 - 2008
Ellison Clary oral history interview, 2012 May 25
Digital Record
Identifier: OH-UA-CL0077
Dates:
2012-05-25
Harold Pulley [3], 2012 July 18
File
Identifier: OH-UA-PU0086
Scope and Contents
In this third of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley discusses his student experience at UNC Charlotte during the late 1960s and his connection to the civil rights movement in North Carolina. He describes Bonnie Cone’s manner of speaking and interacting with students, and comments on how she handled race issues on campus. He also describes the faculty as a whole, recalling both acceptance and latent racism or anti-semitism among various members of the faculty. Specific faculty he describes are...
Dates:
2012 July 18
Harold Pulley [4], 2012 August 29
File
Identifier: OH-UA-PU0087
Scope and Contents
In this fourth of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley resumes where he left off in the previous interview discussing Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, specifically regarding the reaction at UNC Charlotte. He traces the history of black uprisings, describes the racial climate in New England, and contrasts Charlotte and Boston, both in terms of general culture and specifically of the black communities in each city. He discusses Dr. King’s dissertation and its effect on his own perspective as...
Dates:
2012 August 29