Oral history interview with Cornelia Spencer Love, January 26, 1975
Subtitle: interview G-0032, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Kessler, Lee, 1947?- 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: 2008
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Women librarians; Women in public life; Childhood and youth; Social life and customs; Race relations; University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Other titles: Interview G-0032, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Cornelia Spencer Love, January 26, 1975; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Cornelia Spencer Love, granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (the "woman who rang the bell" to signal the re-opening of the University of North Carolina after Reconstruction) talks about her family, life at the University in the "old days," and her relations with Chapel Hill's black community. Born in 1892, raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and educated at Radcliffe, Love came to Chapel Hill as a young woman in 1917 to work in the UNC library, where she remained for the rest of her years. She talks in this interview about attending dances at UNC as a teenager, recollects early encounters with UNC's Kemp Battle and Frank Porter Graham, and speaks about her grandmother's attitudes towards women and education. She also talks extensively about her brother, J. Spencer Love, founder of Burlington Industries. Her relationship with African American educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown and her philanthropy toward Chapel Hill's African American community are also discussed.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 12, 2008).

Interview participants: Cornelia Spencer Love, interviewee; Lee Kessler, interviewer.

Duration: 01:39:39.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0032, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Joe Jaros. Original transcript: 47 p.

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

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