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Braxton Foushee - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Interviewed by John Kenyon "Yonni" Chapman on March 15, 1991

Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.

Braxton Foushee - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Oral history interview of Foushee, Braxton conducted by Chapman, John Kenyon "Yonni" on March 15, 1991 at Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, “Braxton Foushee - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 23, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/braxton-foushee-on-the-african-american-freedom-struggle-and-civil-rights-movement-in-chapel-hill.

Rights: Open for research. The Southern Historical Collection (SHC) welcomes non-commercial use and access that qualifies as fair use to all unrestricted interview materials in the collection. The researcher must cite and give proper credit to the SHC. The SHC requests that the researcher informs the SHC as to how and where they are using the material.

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