- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Arthur Griffin, May 7, 1999
- Creator:
- Griffin, Arthur, 1948?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-05-07
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
West Charlotte High School (N.C.)
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Attitudes
Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.) - People:
- Griffin, Arthur, 1948?-
- 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:
- Arthur Griffin, an African American man who attended segregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, and later became involved in school politics there, reflects on the legacies of desegregation and the nature of racism in Charlotte and elsewhere. Griffin fondly remembers Second Ward High School (which closed in 1969) and its teachers, who struggled to provide their students with a stellar education despite vastly inadequate resources. While he mourns the loss of Second Ward during desegregation, he thinks the process improved Charlotte by teaching white and black people to work together. Still, desegregation was not a panacea; Griffin believes that race-related problems like low academic achievement among African Americans persist.
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-0168/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:33:14
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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