- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Alma Enloe, May 18, 1998
- Creator:
- Enloe, Alma, 1947?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1998-05-18
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Attitudes
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) - People:
- Enloe, Alma, 1947?-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Alma Enloe misses her days at West Charlotte. She spends much of this interview reminiscing about her time in one of the last all-black classes to graduate from the school. Like many interviewees, she remembers West Charlotte as an extension of Charlotte's African American community and the essential role teachers and student activities played in keeping West Charlotte at the center. The marching band was, and is, good enough to draw crowds. Teachers were deeply invested in the lives of their students, and showed their commitment in and out of the home. At school and at home, students learned discipline and the importance of tidiness. This interview illustrates the depth of West Charlotte's importance to its black students before integration.
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:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0167/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:03:46
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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