- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Mel Swann
- Creator:
- Swann, Melvin, 1936-2016
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1988-09-21
- Subject:
- African American teachers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Coaches (Athletics)--North Carolina--Greensboro
Junior high school principals--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Greensboro
School integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Swann, Melvin, 1936-2016
- Location:
- 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 Mel Swann discusses his early education abroad and at St. Emma Military Academy, and his career as a teacher, coach, and principal at JC Price Junior High School. The interview's primary topic is Swann's efforts in relation to the 1971 integregation of Greensboro schools and his role as director of student affairs. Other topics include a comparison of race realtions and education locally, as well as the progress of school integration since 1971.
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%3A131
- 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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