Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001
Subtitle: interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Gilgor, Bob, 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; African Americans; Social life and customs; Segregation; African American students; Education (Secondary); Attitudes; Segregation in education; Civil rights demonstrations; Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Fred Battle recalls growing up and attending school in segregated Chapel Hill, NC, and taking his experiences to college in Greensboro, where he participated in civil rights protests. Battle describes the pre-integration African American community as one in orbit around the all-black Lincoln High School and the church. Battle fears that these two institutions lack the character they once had: schools are losing their moral character, and churches are the most racially segregated sites in any community. Battle believes that racial progress has faltered since the 1960s and 1970s. This interview offers a useful gauge of the character of the African American community.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 25, 2007).

Interview participants: Fred Battle, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:13:25.

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 Natalia Smith.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0525, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 12 p.

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

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