Lorie, Barbara
- Authoritative Name:
- Lorie, Barbara
- Biography:
- Barbara Lorie worked at the Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina, for a year before Chapel Hill High School principal May Marshbanks hired her as a literature teacher at the newly built integrated high school. There she employed unconventional teaching methods to eliminate racial barriers within her classroom. The Chapel Hill superintendent of schools as well as white Chapel Hill parents questioned Lorie's tactics because of the uncomfortable atmosphere they felt it created for blacks and whites. Following the resultant demotion, Lorie quit and worked for Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines. There she encountered similar racial tensions between the students, leading her to conclude that racism is endemic.--From Oral Histories of the American South biography.
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- Lorie, Barbara
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