Oral history interview with Elva Templeton, January 24, 1976
Subtitle: interview K-0188, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Kratzer, Anne, 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; Women; Biography; Women teachers; Social life and customs; Race relations
Other titles: Interview K-0188, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Elva Templeton, January 24, 1976; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Elva Templeton remembers her childhood in historic Cary, NC. She recalls a segregated city and describes the African American neighborhoods, remembering some of their respected inhabitants, whom she and other whites called "aunt" and "uncle."  Templeton reveals some information about race relations in Cary, and southern girlhood.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on October 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Elva Templeton, interviewee; Anne Kratzer, interviewer.

Duration: 01:01:02.

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 Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 111.3 kilobytes, 111 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0188, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Linda Killen. Original transcript: 25 p.

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

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