Interview with Phillip Smith

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Phillip Smith

Subject

Autobiography
Baseball players
Basketball players
College athletes
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Smith, Phillip -- Interviews
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Western Carolina College -- Students
Western Carolina University

Description

Phillip Smith, a student at Western Carolina College in the 1950s, discusses playing basketball and baseball under Jim Gudger, being nicknamed ‘Chief’ by his teammates because he was Cherokee, and race relations at the time.

Creator

Smith, Phillip

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Publisher

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Date

1950s;
2009-10-03

Contributor

Carroll, Tonya

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

audio/mp3; application/pdf;
sound recordings
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound

Identifier

35534
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35534

Date Created

2014-12-04

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Jackson County (N.C.)

Extent

0:42:25 (sound recording)(duration)
13 pages (transcript)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Smith, Phillip, “Interview with Phillip Smith,” OAI, accessed April 30, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/35534.