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Oral History Interview with Lewis Brandon III by William Chafe

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Brandon, Lewis A., III

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This July 1978 interview conducted by William Chafe with Lewis Brandon III primarily documents Brandon's involvement in, and the activities of organizations including GUTS (Greensboro United Tutorial Service), YES (Youth Educational Service), OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity), FCD (Foundation for Community Development), and GAPP (Greensboro Association of Poor People) during the late 1960s. Brandon also discusses the climate during that time at NC A&T, including its discrimination in state funding, issues on campus, student involvement in community initiatives, the role of the university in the community, and SOUL. Other topics include Brandon's efforts to prevent the Dudley High School protest, the resulting murder of Willie Grimes, his year and a half teaching at J.C. Prince School, being under police surveillance, the cafeteria workers' strike, the FCD summer internship program, the actions of Black Liberation Front (BLF) and Black Panther members in Greensboro, and the unnecessary use of force in several cases, including after the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Individuals discussed in Nelson Johnson, B. J. Battle, Harold Avent (Nunding), Owen Lewis, and Hal Seiber. Claude Barnes enters the room at the end of the interview, and Chafe explains the premise of his book.
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Text
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Interviews
Contributors:
Chafe, William H., 1942
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Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke UniversityIN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Keywords

  1. Black Power
  2. Black Power Movement
  3. Dudley High School A And T State University Protest, May 1969
  4. Food Service Workers' Strike, 1969
  5. Greensboro (N.C.)
  6. Greensboro Civic Organizations
  7. History
  8. North Carolina A&T College/State University
  9. North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University
  10. Protest Movements
  11. Race Relations
  12. United States
  13. Universities
  14. University Of North Carolina At Greensboro

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