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Gunnar Myrdal

1898–1987 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Oral history interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, May 28, 1974 interview G-0029-3, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Johnson, Guion Griffis · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Third of four Southern Oral History Program interviews with sociologist Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989), recorded May 28, 1974 by Mary Frederickson and running just over two hours. Johnson talks about her Chapel Hill education in the 1920s and her research at Howard Odum's social science institute at UNC, also discussing Gunnar Myrdal, studies of race discrimination, and women in Southern higher education. Issued online by the UNC Library in 2006 through Documenting the American South.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.

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