Oral history interview with John F. Hatchett by Eugene Pfaff

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In this transcript of an oral history interview conducted circa 1980 by Eugene Pfaff with John F. Hatchett, Hatchett continues to discuss the leaders, leadership changes, and differing ideologies within the Greensboro CORE chapter. He summarizes the effectiveness of demonstrations and other activities organized by the Greensboro chapter of CORE in the early 1960s. He also discusses the Human Relations Committee report, CORE's response to it, and the subsequent role of the national CORE director.

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Title: Oral history interview with John F. Hatchett by Eugene Pfaff
Who's responsible?: Hatchett, John F. (Interviewee)
Pfaff, Eugene E., Jr., 1948- (Interviewer)
Original creation or publication date: 1980
Place: Greensboro (N.C.)
Decade: 1980-1989
Type of item: text
Original format: interviews
Subject headings: Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
Topics: North Carolina
African-American History
Additional tags: General perspectives on race relations
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Contributing Institution: Greensboro Public Library
Collection: Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program
Civil Rights Greensboro
Funding source: Digitzation funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Contributor's identifier: GPL_OH0001.048
Gateway identifier: gpl:7353
Item note: Reverend John F. Hatchett was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan, where as a high school student he served as president of the local NAACP Youth Chapter. He earned a bachelorâ€™s degree in sociology from Wayne University in 1955. He later attended the Boston University School of Theology and graduated in 1958. Hatchett served as acting chancellor at Alabama A&M College from 1958 until he moved to Greensboro in 1959 to work as a professor at Bennett College.<br><br>While at Bennett, Hatchett served as an advisor to the Bennett chapter of the NAACP and later became involved in the formation of the local CORE chapter. As a member of CORE, he participated in numerous sit-ins, marches, and pickets, and he later served as a spokesman for the group.<br><br>Hatchettâ€™s participation in the Greensboro civil rights movement ended in 1963, when he left Bennett College and moved to New York City. There he attended graduate school at New York University and Columbia University and taught in the public schools. In July 1968, Hatchett was appointed director of the Afro-American Student Center at New York University, but was dismissed three months later amid claims of anti-semitism in his 1967 article â€œThe Phenomenon of the Anti-Black Jews and the Black Anglo-Saxon: A Study in Educational Perfidy.â€� Rev. Hatchett remained in New York, and is also author of Notes from the Mind of a Black Philosopher, Hatshepsut: A Beautiful African Queen of the Nile, and To a Black Goddess: Poems Devoted to Blackness, Life, and Authenticity.
OCLC number: 884367829

Oral history interview with John F. Hatchett by Eugene Pfaff

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