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Oral History Interview with Kay Troxler by William Chafe

Collection:: Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
Title:: Oral History Interview with Kay Troxler by William Chafe
Creator:: Troxler, Catherine Kirkpatrick
Contributor to Resource:: Chafe, William H., 1942-
Publisher:: Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Date of Original:: 1973
Subject:: Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
School integration
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Location:: United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
Medium:: interviews
Type:: Text
Format:: image/jpeg
Description:: This transcript of an oral history conducted by William Chafe circa 1973 with Evelyn Troxler primarily documents Ms. Troxler's involvement in school desegregation in Greensboro in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education, causes for the delay in implementing token school desegregation; Superintendent Ben Smith; the Pearsall Plan; forming a study group of mothers investigating potential problems; meeting at the YWCA; support from the American Friends Service Committee and merger with the Greensboro Community Fellowship; meeting with the school board; raising awareness of the application process for changing schools; hurdles in the process; picnics for students of newly integrated schools; recieving and later court-mandated integration. Troxler also discusses running a kindergarten program at Bennett College's Children's House; tutoring programs for communities such as East White Oak; lack of pro-integration action from churches; the Commission on Christian Social Concerns at West Market Methodist Church; reasons for not becoming involved in the sit-ins; and improvement in Greensboro race relations.
Metadata URL:: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/782
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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