Oral history interview with Virginia Durr, February 6, 1991
Subtitle: interview A-0337. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Egerton, John, 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; Civil rights; Civil rights workers; Southern Conference for Human Welfare
Other titles: Interview A-0337. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Virginia Durr, February 6, 1991; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr describes her involvement in the nascent civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Durr was among those white elites, like Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Clifford, who supported black activists as they began organizing what would become the familiar civil rights movement of the 1960s. In this interview, she describes some of her experiences with the movement. The interviewer performed this interview as he was gathering information for a book, and this approach reveals itself as he corroborates facts rather than drawing out detailed thoughts on certain issues. As a result, this interview does not contain many passages useful for excerption, but interested researchers should read through it for a snapshot of some of the activism that was taking place in the American South before the 1960s.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 8, 2007).

Interview participants: Virginia Durr, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.

Duration: 01:32:35.

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 Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Transcribed from: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0337, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jovita Flynn. Original transcript: 41 p.

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

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