Passmore, Carol Bryden

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Carol Bryden Passmore (1944- ) obtained her undergraduate degree in 1965 in sociology from UNCG (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She entered college in 1961, when it was known as Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Passmore talks about the integrated campus, attending Congress of Racial Equality meetings and civil rights demonstrations, being against coeducation and lesbian faculty. An individualist, she discusses dormitory and campus life, i.e., churches sending transportation for Sunday services, cigarettes being distributed in the dining hall, sunbathing and participated in synchronized swimming. She remembers Dean Mereb Mossman and history professor Franklin Parker, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the beginnings of the United States involvement in Vietnam. Passmore describes her involvement in Operation Crossroads Africa, the American Friends Service Committee, breakfast movies on Tate Street, campus ministries and meeting Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center