Voices from the Vault
Wednesday, December 16 2009
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
Horace Carter|carter-klan.org
History can be told through the stories of presidents, generals, kings and queens. Or, it can be told by the ordinary citizens who witnessed change. The Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill is home to a remarkable archive of oral history interviews called the Southern Oral History Program. The archive includes thousands and thousands of hours of interviews with average and extraordinary Southerners recounting everything from life in the mountains to marching with Dr. King. Seth Kotch, coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives, joins host Frank Stasio to share some voices from the vault. Today he tells the story of Tabor City’s Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper publisher, Horace Carter, and he presents the voices of three mill workers describing life in North Carolina during the Depression.
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