Oral history interview with Raleigh Bailey, December 6, 2000
Subtitle: interview K-0270, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Lau, Barbara (Barbara 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; Social reformers; Immigrants; Services for; Southeast Asian Americans; Americanization; Cultural pluralism
Other titles: Interview K-0270, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Raleigh Bailey, December 6, 2000; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: After earning a Ph.D. in human nature and religion, and inspired by the progressive political climate of the 1960s, Raleigh Bailey moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he began working to ease settlement for immigrants attracted to the area because of its healthy job market and receptive attitude toward new arrivals. In this interview, Bailey describes his devotion to social justice, which manifests itself in his family life--he adopted a biracial child and an Eskimo child--and his career, working on behalf of a variety of different ethnic groups from Southeast Asia and the service program AmeriCorps. This interview offers insights into ethnic and racial identity, community relations, and assimilation.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Dec. 12, 2008).

Interview participants: Raleigh Bailey, interviewee; Barbara Lau, interviewer.

Duration: 01:16:13.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill 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.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 148 kilobytes, 139 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0270, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. McLain. Original transcript: 41 p.

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

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