Oral history interview with Vennie Moore, February 24, 1999
Subtitle: interview K-0439, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Campbell, Brian, interviewer; Hajar, Laura, interviewer; Moore, Stephanie, 1966?- interviewee; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; African American women; Segregation in education; African Americans; Social life and customs; Race relations
Other titles: Interview K-0439, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Vennie Moore, February 24, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Vennie Moore describes her childhood as an African American girl in Davidson, North Carolina. Moore remembers picking cotton with other black children as white children left the fields to attend school. Her own schooling took place in an under-resourced facility. Moore recalls the fear she felt after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. This interview is relatively short but does add an interesting facet to the history of the segregated South: Moore remembers that she and her black classmates did not bridle at their school's shoddy resources because they had no idea white students were enjoying anything better. Integration shattered that myth.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008).

Interview participants: Vennie Moore, interviewee; Stephanie Moore, interviewee; Brian Campbell, interviewer; Laura Hajar, interviewer.

Duration: 01:18:26.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0439, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 48 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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