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Civil Rights Oral History Project

The Civil Rights Oral History Project, created and collected by UNCG Department of History professor William A. Link includes 71 interviews with 66 people, conducted between December 1986 and June 1990. Link personally conducted 40 of the interviews, while Kathy Hoke participated in 14. Other interviewers for the project were Kathy Carter, Kevin Costello, Wayne Jordan, and Mark Dawson. Five additional interviews are considered part of UNCG’s collection. Four were donated to the project by Greensboro News and Record reporter Jim Schlosser, who conducted them with Ima Edwards, Jack Moebes, Jo Spivey, and Geneva Tisdale between 1997 and 2001. The collection was digitized and placed online as part of a collaborative project undertaken in 2005-2007 to provide online access to civil rights oral histories at UNC Greensboro and Greensboro Public Library. Digitization was funded through a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

Oral history interview with Howard A. Chubbs by William Link
In this transcript of a September 18, 1989, oral history interview conducted by William Link with Howard A. Chubbs, Chubbs discusses his background and compares the racial climate of Tennessee; Chicago; Richmond, Virginia; and Greensboro, North Carolina. He specifically describes political leadership and race relations in Greensboro, needs and evolution of the community, the role of certain participants in the local civil rights movement, his memories of the 1969 riot at North Carolina A&T State University, and the November 3, 1979, shootout and its aftermath.
Oral history interview with Katie Dorsett by Kathleen Hoke
In this transcript of a May 30, 1990, oral history interview conducted by Kathleen Hoke with Katie Dorsett, Ms. Dorsett primarily discusses her experiences while at North Carolina A&T State University, including the racial and socioeconomic demography of Greensboro, the 1960 sit-ins, the desegregation and integration of Greensboro schools, and the 1969 riot at Dudley High School and at North Carolina A&T State University. She also provides her observations on paternalism, race relations, and integration in the community and in the workforce.
Oral history interview with Dargan Frierson by Kathleen Hoke
In this transcript of a November 10, 1989, oral history interview conducted by Kathleen Hoke wit Dargan Frierson, Frierson discusses his experience as a FBI agent stationed in Greensboro, especially regarding the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panthers. Other topics the 1968 riot in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1969 events at Dudley High School and North Carolina A&T State University.

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