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Title	Oral history interview with Janet Harper Gordon, 1990 [full audio recording]
Date	1991-03-28
Creator	Gordon, Janet Harper
Contributors	Junk, Cheryl
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Janet Harper Gordon (1942- ) was among the first African-American students to attend Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She obtained her bachelor's (1964) and master's (1973) degrees in history. Gordon recalls her reasons for choosing to attend the institution, acclimating to college life, her determination to succeed and obtaining her graduate degree as a single mother. She discusses influential history department faculty, campus life and traditions, how the school motto of service was demonstrated in her life and the influence of her parents. She describes living in a segregated dormitory, the Greensboro Sit-ins and her feelings about integrating the university. She talks about the Vietnam War (Her husband was killed in the War.), the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassinations of President John Kennedy, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
Related material	Print/text transcript: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ui/id/59742
Type	Sound
Original format	Interviews
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	OH003 UNCG Centennial Oral History Project
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	OH003.069.AUD
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	939557228

Oral history interview with Janet Harper Gordon, 1990 [full audio recording]

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