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Odessa Cotten - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Interviewed by John Kenyon "Yonni" Chapman on February 5, 1994

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.

Oral history interview of Cotten, Odessa conducted by Chapman, John Kenyon "Yonni" on February 5, 1994 at Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, “Odessa Cotten - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 22, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/odessa-cotten-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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