Oral history interview with Carnell Locklear, February 24, 2004
Subtitle: interview U-0007, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Lowery, Malinda Maynor, interviewer; Lowery, Willie French, 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; Lumbee Indians; Race relations; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Indians of North America; African Americans; Relations with Indians
Other titles: Interview U-0007, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Carnell Locklear, February 24, 2004; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Carnell Locklear recalls his fight for Lumbee Indian rights in eastern North Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s. He describes his efforts, via both non-violent protest and legal means, to attain federal assistance for Lumbee Indians, who long before had earned government recognition at the price of benefits. Locklear describes his ascent through the ranks of the protestors, his sudden descent and the movement's fracture, and his life after departing the movement.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on May 31, 2007).

Interview participants: Carnell Locklear, interviewee; Malinda Maynor, interviewer; Willie Lowery, interviewer.

Duration: 00:59:55.

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-0007, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Melanie Miller. Original transcript: 27 p.

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

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