This transcript of a September 6, 1977, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Cleo McCoy primarily documents McCoy's experiences at North Carolina A&T State University during the 1950s and 1960s. He discusses veterans attending A&T in the 1950s; Governor Luther Hodges' visit to campus and Dr. Ferdinand Bluford's reaction; the Greensboro Four; post-sit-ins campus activities; William Gamble and Warmouth Gibbs' responses; A&T presidents being referred to as Uncle Toms; Jesse Jackson, Nelson Johnson, and Vincent McCullough; and the 1969 A&T/Dudley High School protest. Other topics include Randolph Blackwell running for office; civil rights discussions at Guilford College in the fifties; "outsiders" in the 1963 and 1969 protests; and James Farmer discouraging the role of clergy in the movement.
