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| Interviewee: | Ted Fillette |
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Ted Fillette, March 2, 2006. Interview U-0185. Southern Lawyer Recalls How He Came to Advocate for the Rights of Marginalized Groups: This is the first interview in a two-part series with southern lawyer Ted Fillette of the Legal Aid Society of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Fillette describes his childhood in Mobile, Alabama; his involvement in civil rights activism as a student at Duke during the 1960s; his work with the VISTA program in Boston; and his early work as a legal advocate of people displaced by urban renewal in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the 1970s. Interviewee: Ted Fillette Interviewer: Sarah Thuesen Duration: 01:21:04 Annotated Excerpts: Listen to and read all 6 excerpts. | |
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Ted Fillette, April 11, 2006. Interview U-0186. Southern Lawyer Advocates for Tenants and Welfare Rights in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: This is the second interview in a two-part series with southern lawyer Ted Fillette of the Legal Aid Society of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. In this interview, Fillette focuses on his work as a legal advocate of tenant and welfare rights from the 1970s into the early twenty-first century. Throughout, he discusses the legal and political measures taken to ameliorate housing conditions for low-income tenants and to ensure that low-income people have access to social welfare services. Interviewee: Ted Fillette Interviewer: Sarah Thuesen Duration: 02:03:08 Annotated Excerpts: Listen to and read all 7 excerpts. |