The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. William Madison Randall Library. Special Collections

601 S. College Rd.
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 910-962-7563

Repository URL: http://library.uncw.edu/archives_special/

Repository code: ncwu

Repository description (CRHP): The Oral Histories collection includes over 600 interviews. The Southeast North Carolina collection are interviews with individuals who have lived through momentous changes in regional health care; people who have attended Williston High School and experienced segregation and integration in New Hanover County education; leaders who have served the area as trailblazers in business, government and community service, and much more.

Repository description (extant): The Library also provides appropriate information resources and services to all citizens and scholars outside the University community. Special efforts are made to collect, preserve and make available information resources relating to the coastal region in which the library is located. The library houses a number of important collections including several oral history collections.

Repository Notes (CRHP): Collection contains 26 interviews with former students of Wilmington's former all-black Williston High School, forced to close its doors in 1968.

Repository type: University Special Collection

Collections:

Oral history collection