Interview with Ollin Dunford

Interview with Ollin Dunford

African American basketball coaches

African Americans

African Americans -- Social conditions

Coaches (Athletics)

Dunford, Ollin

School integration

Western Carolina University -- Alumni and alumnae

Western Carolina University

Ollin Dunford is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about his experience in elementary and middle school during desegregation in his hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Dunford discusses how it felt moving to Sylva in 1998 as an African-American. He talks about working for Goodyear from the age of 22 and his work with Youth Sports in Jackson County, becoming president of Jackson County Youth Basketball, and eventually coach for the Smoky Mountains High School women’s basketball team.

Dunford, Ollin

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2017-04-20;

Macaulay, Eliza

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35865

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35865

2018-02-06

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Lawton (Okla.)

0:56:21 (sound recording)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina