Oral history interview with Edith Warren, August 28, 2002
Subtitle: interview K-0601, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Hartman, Leda, 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 legislators; Biography; Women educators; Women; Hurricane Floyd, 1999; Hurricanes; Floods; Flood damage; Disasters; Disaster relief
Other titles: Interview K-0601, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Edith Warren, August 28, 2002; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Edith Warren, a state congresswoman representing North Carolina's Eighth District, can boast of a number of firsts: she was the first female principal in Pitt County and became the county's first female commissioner. In this interview, she describes the background that led her into education and politics, but spends most of her time describing the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd, which devastated the region in 1996. Spared serious damage to her own property, Warren was determined to help her community. She did so in ways big and small, taking food to needy residents and struggling with the state government to release funds held up by the state government. Researchers will learn a lot about Warren's character, Hurricane Floyd, and some of the difficulties that small communities face when dealing with big problems.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 7, 2008).

Interview participants: Edith Warren, interviewee; Leda Hartman, interviewer.

Duration: 01:07:08.

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 K, Southern communities, interview K-0601, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sarah Bryan. Original transcript: 27 p.

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

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