noa_sohpcr_k-0544 k-0544 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Sheila Florence, January 20, 2001 Florence, Sheila, 1947- Gilgor, Bob School integration--North Carolina--Chapel Hill African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Segregation in education--North Carolina--Chapel Hill Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Chapel Hill Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Social life and customs--20th century African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century African American students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill Florence, Sheila, 1947- Sheila Florence, among the first African Americans to desegregate Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, remembers growing up in the segregated South and working to end desegregation. She recalls the poor conditions at all-black schools in Chapel Hill and the harassment she endured when she entered the formerly all-white Chapel Hill High School. Although she was courageous enough to be a part of the desegregation of a school, she asserts that she was not brave enough to face arrest in protests. She did, however, picket with other civil rights marchers. Researchers interested in the details of life in a low-income African American community after World War II should look to the beginning of this interview for additional information. 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)) 2006 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0544/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 150 kilobytes, 182 megabytes Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player MP3 format / ca. 182 MB, 01:39:54 Duration: 01:39:54 Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 2001-01-20 Chapel Hill (N.C.) Orange County (N.C.) 20090730 104817