- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Linda McDougle
- Creator:
- McDougle, Linda Wilson
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1988-10-05
- Subject:
- Burlington (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
African American teachers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Greensboro
School integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American students--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- McDougle, Linda Wilson
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Alamance County, 36.04407, -79.39951
United States, North Carolina, Alamance County, Burlington, 36.09569, -79.4378
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which Linda McDougle discusses her influences, experiences, and observations of race relations as a light-skinned African American growing up in Burlington, North Carolina, including her employment as the first black cashier in a white grocery store. She primarily discusses her career in the Greensboro Public School system, where she was the first black teacher at Jackson Middle School in the late 1960s, and her memories of integration in 1971. McDougle also mentions her involvement in local civil rights demonstrations as a student at N.C. Central student.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A93
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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