Oral history interview with Terry Sanford, December 18, 1990
Subtitle: interview L-0050, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Cheatham, Cindy, 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; Governors; Civil rights movements; African Americans; Civil rights; Race relations; Students; Political activity; Political aspects; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Other titles: Interview L-0050, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Terry Sanford, December 18, 1990; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Terry Sanford begins this interview with a discussion of the student demonstrations and protests that were sweeping Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during his years as the Governor of North Carolina (1961-1965). The protests, one of whose aims was to bring about open accommodations laws, were largely fueled by student activism. Sanford describes how Anne Queen, director of the YMCA/YWCA at the University of North Carolina, helped to calm demonstrating students. Sanford uses this episode to segue into a broader discussion of Queen's leadership at UNC during those tumultuous years, arguing that she turned the YMCA/YWCA into the "social conscience" of the University. He also describes his professional relationship with her during the early 1960s. Likening Queen's leadership style to that of Frank Porter Graham and William Friday, Sanford argues that universities (and specifically the University of North Carolina) played an important and unique role in the advance of social change during the mid-twentieth century. Sanford also briefly discusses his own support for civil rights and his bid for the governorship in 1961.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 13, 2008).

Interview participants: Terry Sanford, interviewee; Cindy Cheatham, interviewer.

Duration: 00:30:41.

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 L, University of North Carolina, interview L-0050, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 6 p.

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

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