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Oral History Interview with John Foster by William Chafe

Collection:: Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
Title:: Oral History Interview with John Foster by William Chafe
Creator:: Foster, John R.
Contributor to Resource:: Chafe, William H., 1942-
Publisher:: Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Date of Original:: 1973-02-14
Subject:: Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
School integration
Location:: United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
Medium:: interviews
Type:: Text
Format:: image/jpeg
Description:: This February 14, 1973, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with John Foster primarily documents Foster's work on the Greensboro School Board during desegregation in the fifties and sixties. He discusses using bond money to improve black schools in the forties with the hope that separate but equal practices could continue, shares his opinions on "separate but equal" and "deliberate speed," and describes school board preparations for the Brown decision and their resolution immediately following it. Foster also describes Greensboro's black schools and students; his impressions of William Hampton, Ben Smith, and George Simkins; NAACP involvement; his assumptions about the black community and its socioeconomic differences; Dudley High's fight to use the Senior High gymnasium; the Pearsall Plan; and the school boars' consideration of black applicants' request to attend white schools. Mrs. Foster briefly talks about her involvement in the city PTA and recalls being harassed by people against desegregation.
Metadata URL:: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/734
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Original Collection:: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/chafe/
RL.00207 William Henry Chafe Oral History Collection
CRG
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
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