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Interview no. | K-1104 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | 23 March 2001 |
Interviewee | Thompson, Charles L. (Charles LeRoy), 1944- |
Interviewee occupation | Educators |
Interviewee DOB | 1944 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Wiggs, Matisha. Conschafter, Michael. |
Abstract | Charles L. Thompson was a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student who participated in civil rights protests for the desegregation of public accommodations in Chapel Hill, N.C. in the early 1960s. He was arrested in 1963 after a sit-in; also twice more subsequent to that case. The main themes of the interview are: activism and why he became involved; stories he remembers about the fate of protestors; memories of his own time in jail (about six weeks total); the roles of Quentin Baker and John Dunne; successes and failures in local protest strategy; and the local movement's sense of its place on the national scale. A major effort was made by the interviewers to learn from Thompson specific places that were targets of protests of which he was a part or of which knew. Thompson provides many especially interesting details about assaults on the protestors. He also discusses his current role on the Governor's Education Cabinet. There, he continues to deal with the issue of segregation as schools in North Carolina increasingly re-segregate themselves. |
Citation | Interview with Charles L. Thomps.on by Matisha Wiggs and Michael Conschafter, 23 March 2001, K-1104, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K1104_Transcript |