Item Information
Title
Interview with the Robert McKinney Martin, 28 October 1996 and 14 November 1996 (J-0043)
Description
One of a series of interviews conducted by students of the University of North Carolina School of Law, with North Carolina lawyers and judges, some of whom are also politicians. Topics include interviewees' personal and professional lives; thoughts about the law and the legal profession; childhood experiences; memories of World War II or the Vietnam War; college and law school experiences at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere; memorable cases; legal ethics; racial segregation; school integration; civil rights law; work with Julius L. Chambers; women in the legal profession; and the death penalty. Martin talks about the influenza pandemic on pp. 13-14.
Source
Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.