Interviews

Oral history interview with Doris Wooten Wesley 1971; Audio Clip 2

Wesley, Doris Wooten; La Brie, Henry G; Kratcha, Kae Bara; Springer, Kimberly; Wang, Karen

Doris Wooten Wesley describes her late husband Carter Wesley’s dedication to reporting on racist policing in their newspaper even when police reacted with violence, which eventually led to Carter Wesley’s death.

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Excerpt from full interview with Doris Wooten Wesley: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-82tm-xn83

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Reproduced in Meddlesome Practices: Oral Histories of Good Troublemaking in Business is an online exhibition of business-related oral histories from the Oral History Archive at Columbia. Visit the exhibition website here: https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/2022/03/01/meddlesome-practices/

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Meddlesome Practices Exhibition Archive
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March 3, 2022

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Black Journalists Oral History Collection
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Oral history interview with Doris Wooten Wesley 1971

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From: Wesley, Doris Wooten. (1971). Oral history interview with Doris Wooten Wesley 1971. Columbia Digital Library Collections [Columbia University Libraries]. [Oral history]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-82tm-xn83