Oral history interview with Robert Lee Mangum, November 18, 2003
Subtitle: interview U-0008, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Lowery, Malinda Maynor, 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
Other titles: Interview U-0008, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Robert Lee Mangum, November 18, 2003; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Reverend Robert Lee Mangum offers his relatively measured, diplomatically delivered take on events in Robeson County, NC, in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. But while Mangum sometimes seems to choose his words carefully, he clearly feels passionately about the causes he participated in over decades of activism motivated by his Christian faith: opposing double voting, registering voters, and working against poverty. He registers a number of successes in this interview, but remains committed to continuing his fight against the effects of racism as well as other social problems, like drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and poverty.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 5, 2007).

Interview participants: Robert Lee Mangum, interviewee; Malinda Maynor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:34:16.

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-0008, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sharon Caughill. Original transcript: 41 p.

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

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