Oral history interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987
Subtitle: interview C-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Jenkins, James Lineberry, 1919-2003, 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: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Officials and employees; Education and state; School integration; Community colleges; Curricula; Technical education; Politics and government; North Carolina. State Board of Education; North Carolina; Duplin County (N.C.). Board of Education; Duplin County (N.C.).
Other titles: Interview C-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: William Dallas Herring began his career in education politics on the Duplin County School Board and eventually became chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education. In Duplin County and statewide, Herring sought to consolidate school districts and give as much control as possible to local decision-makers. His devotion to comprehensive education (as opposed to choosing to support either vocational or liberal arts education) sometimes put him at odds with other Board members and state leaders. In this interview, Herring describes some of these conflicts, offering broad pronouncements about education and the details of policy wrangling. Many of these details come in Herring's recollections about the growth of the community college system in North Carolina in the late 1950s and 1960s. Researchers should read this interview with its partner, C-0035.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on July 30, 2008).

Interview participants: William Dallas Herring, interviewee; Jay Jenkins, interviewer.

Duration: 02:55:51.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series C, Notable North Carolinians, interview C-0034, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Patricia Watkins. Original transcript: 78 p.

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

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