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11/ interview with Rev. Otis Hairston, minister of Shiloh Baptist Church, July 17, 1972 OH came to §B in '58 to take over his father's church — grew up in GB, went to S&aw, had a church in Raleigh where was was vice-pres, of Raleigh Citizens Association v—Here he has been chairman of the Citizens Emergency Committee founded in '68 after the death of MLK,member of various bi-racial commissions before that, head of Greensboro citizens Association, etc. On Expectations: says the black community in GB after '54 was very disappointed that the school board did not follow the lead of Sup't. Ben Smith ~ Smith, OH savst did not have in mind tokensinm, but meaningful integration — pressure from state gov^T and school board forced Smith,,,. < to slow down — OH says that there was pressure to get a more conservative d^ City Council which woisid appoint a more conservative school board. ^r The key here is that the blacks felt Smith meant mora than tokenism a In Raleigh and GB. blacks saw Brown as requiring meaningful integration [ in all schools.^- some blacks and white in every school ~ which 3 [ meant more that freedom of choice — OH believed that tbe state gov't 'would go for token integration — some blacks going to white schools but moTVice versa — says .Pearsall was planned_as__cijaaimyefttion — if any blacks were consulted, they were^ependenTblacks — school principals or teachers who depended on the state and pol's for a job. Dr,rHampton was on the school board at the time — his feeling was Jv^e- that .Smith really did have in mind meaningful integration, and OH talked I with him often — thought that Smith wanted also to integrate the teaching staff! ' ' After he came, OH became active in GB Citizens Association — Henry Frye [president, OH v-p — every year they would request school board to speed up integration with noj^ results — schl bd would cite Pearsall and say GB was complying with it (in other words when the state did step in to [give the direction which Hudgins said was needed, it was direction in the wrong way) -- OH says that Smith had a lot of local pressure to slow down_(Roach confirms this, cf 4-3 vote on Hampton; — uh says that by *58 there was a wide sense of disillusionment in the black*" community. 4 * Res sit-ins — Ezell Blair Jr. a member of the church — other students wanted to participate in sit-ins — had to be organized ~ 3 of leaders came to the church wanting to mimeograph etc. ~ afraid to go to the college, and as members of the church felt free to come and ask for stencias and mimeo (Blair a member, Richmond an attender). .OH says he became involved because of his closensss to Blair ~ he's ^convinced that the sit-ins resulted from a buzz session in the dormitory J/and they said, why not just go down there — had no plan for afterward — Hdidn't know what they were going to do.
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Full text | 11/ interview with Rev. Otis Hairston, minister of Shiloh Baptist Church, July 17, 1972 OH came to §B in '58 to take over his father's church — grew up in GB, went to S&aw, had a church in Raleigh where was was vice-pres, of Raleigh Citizens Association v—Here he has been chairman of the Citizens Emergency Committee founded in '68 after the death of MLK,member of various bi-racial commissions before that, head of Greensboro citizens Association, etc. On Expectations: says the black community in GB after '54 was very disappointed that the school board did not follow the lead of Sup't. Ben Smith ~ Smith, OH savst did not have in mind tokensinm, but meaningful integration — pressure from state gov^T and school board forced Smith,,,. < to slow down — OH says that there was pressure to get a more conservative d^ City Council which woisid appoint a more conservative school board. ^r The key here is that the blacks felt Smith meant mora than tokenism a In Raleigh and GB. blacks saw Brown as requiring meaningful integration [ in all schools.^- some blacks and white in every school ~ which 3 [ meant more that freedom of choice — OH believed that tbe state gov't 'would go for token integration — some blacks going to white schools but moTVice versa — says .Pearsall was planned_as__cijaaimyefttion — if any blacks were consulted, they were^ependenTblacks — school principals or teachers who depended on the state and pol's for a job. Dr,rHampton was on the school board at the time — his feeling was Jv^e- that .Smith really did have in mind meaningful integration, and OH talked I with him often — thought that Smith wanted also to integrate the teaching staff! ' ' After he came, OH became active in GB Citizens Association — Henry Frye [president, OH v-p — every year they would request school board to speed up integration with noj^ results — schl bd would cite Pearsall and say GB was complying with it (in other words when the state did step in to [give the direction which Hudgins said was needed, it was direction in the wrong way) -- OH says that Smith had a lot of local pressure to slow down_(Roach confirms this, cf 4-3 vote on Hampton; — uh says that by *58 there was a wide sense of disillusionment in the black*" community. 4 * Res sit-ins — Ezell Blair Jr. a member of the church — other students wanted to participate in sit-ins — had to be organized ~ 3 of leaders came to the church wanting to mimeograph etc. ~ afraid to go to the college, and as members of the church felt free to come and ask for stencias and mimeo (Blair a member, Richmond an attender). .OH says he became involved because of his closensss to Blair ~ he's ^convinced that the sit-ins resulted from a buzz session in the dormitory J/and they said, why not just go down there — had no plan for afterward — Hdidn't know what they were going to do. |