Interview with Joe Sam Queen

Interview with Joe Sam Queen

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 21st century

Political campaigns

Politicians

Queen, Joe Sam

Joe Sam Queen is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Queen talks about growing up in Panama in the 1950s and then in Waynesville in the 1960s. He graduated high school in 1968 and talks about the Civil Rights Movement in relation to Haywood County as well as NC State where he attended college. He shares how he got involved in politics from a young age and describes campaigning for a seat in the Senate and the House of Representatives. He also shares his political philosophy and discusses the political landscape of the country from the late 1960s to 2019.

Queen, Joe Sam

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-06-07

Macaulay, Eliza

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

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interviews

eng

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Text

63945

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63945

North Carolina

1:07:19(duration)

13(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina