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Oral History Interview with Nelson Johnson by William Chafe

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Johnson, Nelson N

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This October 24, 1978, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Nelson Johnson primarily documents Johnson's community activism with YES (Youth Educational Services), FCD (Foundation for Community Development), GUTS (Greensboro United Tutorial Services), and GAS (Grassroots Association of Students), GAPP (Greensboro Association of Poor People) while at North Carolina A&T in the late sixties. Johnson discusses his early influences and civil rights activity; attending NC A&T; his various roles in and later dissatisfaction with YES; challenging George Dorsett and the Ku Klux Klan; the relationship between YES and FCD; meeting with Howard Fuller; Anne Graves Kornegay's influence; becoming involved with GUTS and GAS; organizing at Bennett College; forming a multiclass movement with GAPP; running for student body vice president; and the cafeteria workers' strike.Johnson also describes the growing spirit of Black Power in Greensboro. Topics include A&T administrator's efforts to remove activist students; criticism from community leaders like Hal Sieber; organizing a successful protest march in Greensboro following the Orangeburg Massacre; the militancy of the Black Liberation Front (BLF); Stokely Carmichael's visit to A&T; supposed FBI/SBI informants and Black Panther infiltrators; and Harold "Nunding" Avent.
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Interviews
Contributors:
Chafe, William H., 1942
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Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke UniversityIN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Keywords

  1. Bennett College
  2. Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.)
  3. Black Power
  4. Black Power Movement
  5. Food Service Workers' Strike, 1969
  6. General Perspectives On Race Relations
  7. North Carolina A And T College And State University
  8. North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University
  9. Universities
  10. University Of North Carolina At Greensboro

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