Oral history interview with Gurney Norman, 1986.

Scope and Contents

Background and childhood: Born in Grundy, Virginia, mining family; education: University of Kentucky School of Journalism, undergraduate, 1955-59 and Stanford University; career themes: mining as a family business, opinions on religion, dating and relationships in the 1950s, family reminiscences

Subjects

• Coal miners--Virginia--Grundy.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Norman, Gurney, 1937---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Student movements--United States.
• Students--Political activity.
• United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.

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