Oral history interview with Glennon Threatt, June 16, 2005
Subtitle: interview U-0023, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Hill, Kimberly (Kimberly DeJoie), 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; School integration; African American students; Interracial dating; Civil rights; Gifted children; Education; Race relations; Civil rights demonstrations; African Americans; Attitudes; Indian Springs School (Indian Springs, Ala.)
Other titles: Interview U-0023, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Glennon Threatt, June 16, 2005; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Glennon Threatt describes his experiences with racial segregation in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Threatt, a lawyer in Birmingham, was one of three gifted African American students who integrated an all-white elementary-school gifted class. His presence at the school both helped propel him to academic success and made him a double target for violence and intimidation. Threatt left Alabama to attend Princeton, leaving behind a city where residential and school desegregation seemed to nurture, rather than erode, racism. When he returned to Birmingham twenty years later, he found African Americans in leadership positions, but also golf courses that continued to refuse them membership. Researchers interested in the Birmingham experience with segregation, one African American's experience with racial discrimination and violence, and reflections on the life of racism in America will find this interview very useful.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 1, 2007).

Interview participants: Glennon Threatt, interviewee; Kimberly Hill, interviewer.

Duration: 01:35:07.

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 Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0023, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Chris O'Sullivan. Original transcript: 50 p.

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

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