noa_sohpcr_k-0182 k-0182 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Carl A. Mills Jr., June 30, 1999 Mills, Carl A., 1926-1999 Van Scoyoc, Peggy School administrators--North Carolina--Cary School integration--North Carolina--Cary Schools--North Carolina--Cary--Administration Education--North Carolina--Cary Recreation--North Carolina--Cary Cary (N.C.)--Social life and customs Mills, Carl A., 1926-1999 Carl A. Mills Jr. became principal of Cary Elementary and Junior High School in 1953, and by the mid-1960s was serving as superintendent of the Cary district. When desegregation began, Mills was serving as principal of Cary High School, and he welcomed the one African American male who was the first to enter the all-white school. The process that followed was a smooth one, directed by local committees without much contribution from black families, which were few in the area. It is somewhat difficult to dissect the different stages of Mills's career, and how his school dealt with maintaining integration. However, he does reveal what might be distrust of government inspectors when he describes their questions about what appeared to have been the resegregation of his school: by the time the inspectors arrived, black students had left the classroom to learn trades. Not long afterward, Mills left the education business for a career in town recreation. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southern Oral History Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) 2007 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0182/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 112 kilobytes, 164 megabytes. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. MP3 format / ca. 164 MB, 01:29:35 Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 10, 2008). Interview participants: Carl A. Mills Jr., interviewee; Peggy Van Scoyoc, interviewer Duration: 01:29:35. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 1999-06-30 Cary (N.C.) Wake County (N.C.) 20090721 150554