Oral history interview with Angus Thompson, Sr., October 21, 2003
Subtitle: interview U-0017, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Thompson, Lillian, interviewee; Lowery, Malinda Maynor, interviewer; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 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; Race relations; African Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Attitudes; African American civil rights workers; Relations with Indians; School integration
Other titles: Interview U-0017, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Angus Thompson, Sr., October 21, 2003; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Angus Thompson recalls decades of civil rights activism, from pushing school integration to opposing segregated public facilities. Thompson inherited a legacy of activism from his father and became a forceful leader in the African American community in Lumberton, N.C., forging voting alliances with local Indians and opposing other black politicians' accommodationist impulses. Thompson's story is one of undiluted support for integration, which he sees as the cornerstone of racial progress in the second half of the twentieth century. This interview will prove useful for researchers looking for on-the-ground narratives of civil rights activism and an impassioned defense of the progress of the past fifty years.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 4, 2007).

Interview participants: Angus Thompson, Sr., interviewee; Malinda Maynor, interviewer; Lillian Thompson, interviewee.

Duration: 01:34:36.

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.

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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-0017, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sharon Caughill. Original transcript: 30 p.

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

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