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Interview no. | K-1058 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.20. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral Histories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School |
Project description | Interviews, 2000-2001, conducted by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Lincoln High School, the historically black secondary school that closed in 1962 when a school desegregation plan was implemented. Interviewees discuss African American life and race relations in Chapel Hill, as well as education, discipline, extracurricular activities, and high school social life before and after integration. |
Date | 22 January 2001 |
Interviewee | Hargraves, Frances. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | 1914 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Gilgor, Bob. |
Abstract | In this interview, Frances Hargraves discusses various schools in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area, including Miss Carrie's school, Hackney School and the Orange County Training School. She also discusses growing up in Chapel Hill in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the employment of her parents. Hargraves talks about the dances of the black Elks and Masons, the all-black Hollywood Theater. Additionally, she also speaks on buying books that had been used by white schoolchildren; alcoholism among males in Chapel Hill; attending West Virginia State; North Carolina Central and teaching special education. Hargraves closes with advice for contemporary parents with schoolchildren. |
Citation | Interview with Frances Hargraves by Bob Gilgor, 22 January 2001 K-1058, 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. | K1058_Audio_1 |