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William Tasse Alexander

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William T. Alexander oral history interview 2, 1992 April 25

Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992 · 1992

William T. Alexander (1904 to 1992), in the second of three interviews, describes his schooling in Mecklenburg County, Charlotte and Chapel Hill in the 1910s and 1920s, beginning at the one-room Mallard Creek School. Rural education, corporal punishment, getting children to school, amusements, student life at UNC and the botanist William Chambers Coker come up. About 64 minutes, April 1992, tied to the William Tasse Alexander Family Papers, MS0256.

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