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Interview with George Roacft, July 17, 1972
Names mentioned to be followed ups Joe Spivey of the Record and John
Foster^Greenway (?), chairman of school board after Hudgins.
In 1955, Roach, a realtor who seems to be of average education and middle
class status, was elected to the City Council — from 1957 to 1961 he was
Mayor, which In GB is largely a figure head post — no veto power and
the city mgr is the administrator — council is a policy-making body, elected
on a non-partisan basis — chooses school board members — city and county
school lines are not coterminous so county board names one school board
member.
Res the Benjamin Smith Resolution — Roach says there was lots of opposition —
says Hodges could have been a great governor and a great man, but instead"
"let the GB school board bleed and die" — says if Hodges had not played
a hands 01i game, things would have been different ~ dharlotte, Winston,
Raleigh and G3 all got together and acted, but Hodges let them die —
he could have done a lot of good for the school board — Roach calls
Hudgins and Smith "outstanding ¥orth Carolinians."
Says there was "right much" local opposition — KKK got active and got
j impetus — but says of the upper class groups, most supported the Brown
[ decision
Sa%s the Coyncil did come under pressure to nam<=> an-H -Brown pg^plo to
the ^chool board — "I had a tremendous amount of pressure put on me to
keep~~Hampton jut, Wm — a black) off the school board"- but" Hampton did
a "tremendous" job and-was re-appuiiiLetl by a 4-3 vote — a frequent vote
those days due to tensions (check lineup).
fiThe pressure did have its effect though, as more pre-segregation people
[/were named.
Res Waldo Falkener — not a focus of controversy — in contrast to Hampton
who Roack describes wwith admiration and respect as "very smart" — did
a trgmgnriong jnh -ho pave thf way — Falkener on t.hf> other hantl "Bas not
(smart or brainy" — was well-liked though — WF pretty much followed
Ed Zane in his votes — looked to Zane for direction — Roach notes that
WF was criticized by blacks for not carrying the cause.
On communications between races from 50-60s "fairly good" — then says
though that there was not a whole lot of telling each other what was happening •
tin other words when you get to specifics, there seems to have been little
communication — "communication not particularly good" — really g dwj«-snw —
people of both races didn't understand the other — due to both — sort of
equal responsibility for this — not a spirit of mistrust, particularly, but
each race went its own way.
Object Description
| Title | [Notes on interview with George Roach by William H. Chafe] |
| Date | 1972-07-06 |
| Creator | Chafe, William H., 1942- |
| Biographical/historical note |
William H. Chafe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942. He was raised in Cambridge, attended the public schools there, and then went to Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude in history in 1962. After a year at Union Theological Seminary in New York, he taught for two years at Columbia Grammar School, a private preparatory school in New York City. Starting in 1965, he was a student in the graduate program in American history at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1971. He taught for one year at Vassar College, and then in 1971 began his career at Duke University. Much of Dean Chafe's professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issue of race and gender equality. His dissertation and first book focused on the changing social and economic roles of American women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns of race and gender discrimination in America. His book on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward social history and community studies. Chafe has written two books on the history of post-World War II America, and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993). Professor Chafe's activities at Duke have also reflected these interests. He has been co-director of the Duke Oral History Program, and its Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations; he is a founder and the former Academic Director of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women; he is also a founder and senior research associate of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1988 he was named the Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of History. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences. From 1990 to 1995 Chafe chaired the Duke University Department of History. In 1995 he became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 added to that title new responsibilities as Dean of Trinity College. He has most recently been appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He is married to Lorna Waterhouse Chafe, Coordinator of Child Care Services at Duke. They have two children, Christopher, 30, and Jennifer, 28. -From Chafe's personal webpage, http://www.aas.duke.edu/admin/deans/faculty/chafe.html. |
| Subject headings | Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960;Segregation in education--United States |
| Topics | School desegregation, 1954-1958;Business desegregation and sit-ins, 1960 |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This is a four-page, typed set of notes by William Chafe on a July 6, 1972, interview with George Roach. Shorthand is used throughout, including "GR" for "George Roach" and "GB" for "Greensboro." Chafe notes that Roach discussed Governor Luther Hodges' actions regarding Brown v. Board of Education; local opposition to school desegregation; communication between blacks and whites in Greensboro; the 1960 sit-ins; and meeting with Edward Zane, A&T Dean William Gamble, and business owners. He also shared his support of integration and his high opinion of Greensboro. These interview notes form part of Duke history professor William Chafe's research culminating in his 1980 book Civilities and Civil Rights. |
| Type | text |
| Original format | reports |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | RL.00207 William Henry Chafe Oral History Collection |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/chafe/ |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
| Object ID | Duke_RL.00207.0869 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367544 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | 4.23.869-01 |
| Full text | I! ( \.& l{1 4 Interview with George Roacft, July 17, 1972 Names mentioned to be followed ups Joe Spivey of the Record and John Foster^Greenway (?), chairman of school board after Hudgins. In 1955, Roach, a realtor who seems to be of average education and middle class status, was elected to the City Council — from 1957 to 1961 he was Mayor, which In GB is largely a figure head post — no veto power and the city mgr is the administrator — council is a policy-making body, elected on a non-partisan basis — chooses school board members — city and county school lines are not coterminous so county board names one school board member. Res the Benjamin Smith Resolution — Roach says there was lots of opposition — says Hodges could have been a great governor and a great man, but instead" "let the GB school board bleed and die" — says if Hodges had not played a hands 01i game, things would have been different ~ dharlotte, Winston, Raleigh and G3 all got together and acted, but Hodges let them die — he could have done a lot of good for the school board — Roach calls Hudgins and Smith "outstanding ¥orth Carolinians." Says there was "right much" local opposition — KKK got active and got j impetus — but says of the upper class groups, most supported the Brown [ decision Sa%s the Coyncil did come under pressure to nam<=> an-H -Brown pg^plo to the ^chool board — "I had a tremendous amount of pressure put on me to keep~~Hampton jut, Wm — a black) off the school board"- but" Hampton did a "tremendous" job and-was re-appuiiiLetl by a 4-3 vote — a frequent vote those days due to tensions (check lineup). fiThe pressure did have its effect though, as more pre-segregation people [/were named. Res Waldo Falkener — not a focus of controversy — in contrast to Hampton who Roack describes wwith admiration and respect as "very smart" — did a trgmgnriong jnh -ho pave thf way — Falkener on t.hf> other hantl "Bas not (smart or brainy" — was well-liked though — WF pretty much followed Ed Zane in his votes — looked to Zane for direction — Roach notes that WF was criticized by blacks for not carrying the cause. On communications between races from 50-60s "fairly good" — then says though that there was not a whole lot of telling each other what was happening • tin other words when you get to specifics, there seems to have been little communication — "communication not particularly good" — really g dwj«-snw — people of both races didn't understand the other — due to both — sort of equal responsibility for this — not a spirit of mistrust, particularly, but each race went its own way. |
