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Civil Rights Story Circle - On Carrboro (clip)
Interviewed by Hudson Vaughan and Alexander Stephens on March 24, 2012
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Oral history interview of Phillips, Marion conducted by Vaughan, Hudson on March 24, 2012 at Marian Cheek Jackson Center, Chapel Hill, NC.
Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Civil Rights Story Circle - On Carrboro (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 7, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/civil-rights-story-circle-on-carrboro-clip.
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