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Interview no. | K-1061 |
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 | 17 January 2001 |
Interviewee | Jones, Mary Norwood, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Gilgor, Bob. |
Abstract | In this interview, Mary Norwood Jones discusses growing up in Carrboro, North Carolina and the black neighborhood where her family lived. Jones also talks about the Orange County Training School and Lincoln High School; poverty in the Carrboro community; interaction with the white community during segregation and the role of teachers in the black community, including home visits and school discipline. She also speaks on her education and experiences at North Carolina Central University; teaching physical education in Virginia; integration and working for a juvenile delinquency prevention program with the District of Columbia. |
Citation | Interview with Mary Norwood Jones by Bob Gilgor, 17 January 2001 K-1061, 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. | K1061_Audio_1 |