| Scope and content |
The interviews concern every aspect of Johnetta Webb Spilman's life and career. |
| General note | Interviewer: Donald R. Lennon. Interview date: September 7, 1977, July 20, 1973, and August 30, 1977. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Johnetta Webb Spilman Oral History Interview, Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Johnetta Webb Spilman. |
| Biographical note | Johnetta Webb Spilman was born in Chowan County and moved to Greenville, N. C. in 1916 to teach school. She married J.B. Spilman, treasurer of East Carolina College, and subsequently became asst. treasurer of the college. Spilman became active in the North Carolina Democratic party as a precinct chairman in 1924 before running unsuccessfully for the N.C. senate. In 1932 she was vice-chairman of the Clyde R. Hoey gubernatorial campaign in 1936. Mrs. Spilman served as Vice-chairman of the N.C. Unemployment Compensation Commisstion (1936-1941), director of a resident hall for WAVES in Washington, D.C. (1941-1942), Manager of the Greenville Employment Security Commission (1942-1944), Executive director of the Pitt County T.B. Association (1950-1957), and director of the N.C. Mental Health Association (1957-1958), She has been vice-chairman of the N.C. Democratic State Executive Committee and coordinator of the Council on the Aging. |
