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James Varner: oral history with Harold D. Weaver

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Varner, James Weaver, Harold D

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Interview with James Varner, President and CEO of the Maine Human Rights Coalition, and a long-time member of the Orono Monthly Meeting. In this interview, Varner discusses his early life and influences growing up in New Jersey, attending the University of Maine, his interracial marriage; conflict in the Orono Monthly Meeting over racist disrespect; and the significance of the Quaker tenet that there is that of God in everyone.
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Keywords

  1. African American Quakers
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Movements
  5. History
  6. Orono Monthly Meeting Of Friends
  7. Quakers
  8. Race Relations
  9. Society Of Friends
  10. Universities
  11. University Of Maine

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