Campbell, Barbara, 1943-

Lovell, Nicole

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1998-11-13

1 audio file (56:04) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (26 pages : PDF)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Barbara Campbell was a 55-year-old woman at the time of the interview, which took place at her place of work in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 29, 1943. She was educated at Hollins College, and was employed as a public relations specialist, administrator, and editor.

Longtime Charlotte resident Barbara Campbell discusses her life, career, and opinion on current political issues at the time of the interview. She talks about growing up in Long Island, New York, and attending an all girls' boarding school in Rhode Island, followed by an all-girls' college, Hollins College (now Hollins University). Mrs. Campbell describes studying for a year abroad in France and visiting the Soviet Union in 1963, and how that influenced her perspective on history and politics. She married and moved to Charlotte with her husband in 1967, and began working for Red Clay Press, which published the Red Clay Reader literary magazine. Mrs. Campbell's family moved to London for a year, then returned to Charlotte. She discusses working as an editor for East Woods Press in the 1970s, then for Planned Parenthood, where she began in the public relations department and worked her way up to acting director during the 1980s and 1990s. Mrs. Campbell then describes her work for Mecklenburg County Solid Waste Department as a public information specialist in the mid to late 1990s. Throughout the interview, Mrs. Campbell, a self-identified Democrat, discusses local and national politics with the student interviewer, touching on topics including race relations; school integration; health care and abortion; Charlotte in relation to the rest of the South; Bill and Hillary Clinton; and the media's influence on public opinion.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master file. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using Digidesign 003 rack.

Public relations personnel
Executives
Editors

Campbell, Barbara, 1943-
Swansea, Charleen

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Girls' schools
Race relations
Racism
Foreign study
Political and social views
Managed care plans (Medical care)
Abortion--Public opinion
Mass media--Influence
Recycling industry

North Carolina--Charlotte
Rhode Island--Providence
New York (State)--Long Island
Virginia--Roanoke
France--Paris

Interviews
Oral histories

Red Clay reader
Pak-books

1950-2000

David Goldfield student project on change in the Charlotte region

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

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Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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