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Object Description
Interview no. | K-0222 |
Restrictions | Interview closed. |
Project | K.2.8. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Desegregation and Inner Life of Chapel Hill Schools |
Project description | Interviews, conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the process of creating integrated institutions; and the ways in which the memory of those experiences shapes schools to this day. Interviewees include former teachers, students, and administrators from Lincoln High School, the historically black school that closed when the desegregation plan was implemented, and Chapel Hill High School, which was integrated in 1962. |
Date | 21 March 2001 |
Interviewee | Wicker, Marie Peachee. |
Interviewee occupation | School administrators |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | White, Oliver (Oliver Gordon) |
Abstract | A brief interview of her involvement in Chapel Hill; came for graduate school in 1946; elected to the school board in 1971; concern over Lincoln High; brief mention of the "riot" in 1969; Recreation Commission Frank Umstead tried to close down building because of integrated exercise program; black student taught how to speak properly in the high school and her parents told her not to speak above her raising; received a bomb threat in her house; she was not reelected to the school board because she was outspoken. |
Subject Topical | Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations. |
Subject Name |
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.). Board of Education. Wicker, Marie Peachee. |
Citation | Interview with Marie Peachee Wicker by Oliver Gordon White, 21 March 2001 K-0222, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | K-0222 |