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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.
Object Description
| Title | [Notes on interview with Otis Hairston Sr. by William H. Chafe] |
| Date | 1972-07-17 |
| 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 (N.C.) -- Race relations;Protest movements -- United States;Segregation in education--United States |
| Topics | School desegregation, 1954-1958;Business desegregation, protests, and marches, 1963 |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This is a four-page, typed set of notes by William Chafe based on an July 17, 1971, oral history interview with Otis Hairston Sr. Shorthand is used throughout, including "OH" for "Otis Hairston" and "GB" for "Greensboro." Chafe notes that Hairston discussed Greensboro's response to Brown v. Board of Education; Dr. William Hampton's election to the Greensboro School Board; the 1960 and 1963 protests and community support for them; a meeting with Mayor David Schenck during the 1963 protests; communication between blacks and whites in Greensboro; the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; and why students led the civil rights movement. 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.00207.0855 |
| 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 | 884367573 |
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| Title | 4.23.855-01 |
| 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. |
