Oral history interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991
Subtitle: interview A-0361, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Egerton, John, interviewer; 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: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Race relations; African Americans; Civil rights; African American sociologists; Attitudes; African American universities and colleges
Other titles: Interview A-0361, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Sociologist Hylan Lewis describes his experiences with race in the American South in the period before the civil rights movement gained steam. Lewis witnessed an energized but still uncertain post-World War II African American community that was beginning to discuss how best to fight for equality. At the same time, white southern politicians were devising new strategies of resistance. This interview offers a broad comment on an important and often overlooked moment in civil rights history.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 28, 2007).

Interview participants: Hylan Lewis, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.

Duration: 02:05:38.

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

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern Politics, interview A-0361, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jackie Gorman. Original transcript: 49 p.

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

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