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20235
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This article narrates interviews given by three African-American physicians from North Carolina who received their MDs between 1948 and 1957 before returning to North Carolina to practice medicine. All three doctors expressed not only the hardships they faced in attaining their degrees but also the racial discrimination they experienced while establishing medical practices within North Carolina.
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30753
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In 1981, small business owner and civil rights activist Eddie McCoy began an African American oral history project in Granville Co, NC. While not a trained historian, McCoy’s interviews stand apart from other oral history projects with respect to the insight and perspective he could elicit from his subjects, which possible reflects his own membership within the surveyed community.
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16500
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There is probably no oral literature in America as varied and as localized as that of the African American. Although it is stemmed from a common African heritage, foreign cultures and indigenous traditions have wielded a powerful influence on the African American's comment on his American existence. This is especially true of that phase of lore labeled folk narrative, which although retaining certain communal traits and characteristics of its aboriginal background, has nevertheless been strongly flavored by American regional factors. It is not surprising then that the North Carolina African American's stock of oral narratives should vary to some extent from those in other sections of the South.