Oral history interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983
Subtitle: interview F-0036, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Blanchard, Dallas A., 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 social reformers; Social movements; Christianity; Social justice; Fellowship of Southern Churchmen
Other titles: Interview F-0036, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Nancy Kester Neale remembers her father, Howard "Buck" Kester, who founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and held leadership positions in the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice. According to Neale, Kester was a pioneer whose activism demonstrated the power that religious organizations could play in improving the lives of the southern underclass. This interview is at times light on specifics, but is a useful look at the role of religious organizations in the struggle for economic and racial justice in the South well before the modern civil rights movement gained strength.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on July 7, 2008).

Interview participants: Nancy Kester Neale, interviewee; Dallas Blanchard, interviewer.

Duration: 01:10:33.

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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series F, Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, 1983-1985, interview F-0036, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 28 p.

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

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