- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Ned Irons, March 16, 1999
- Creator:
- Irons, Ned
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-03-16
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
Students--North Carolina--Charlotte
Students--Education (Secondary)--North Carolina--Charlotte--Attitudes
Multicultural education--North Carolina--Charlotte
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) - People:
- Irons, Ned
- 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:
- Ned Irons, a high achieving white student at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses his experiences as a member of a racial minority at this historically black school. Irons was lured to West Charlotte by its sports programs and glowing reputation, and once there found an intellectually stimulating and socially challenging environment. Irons sees West Charlotte as a school that finds its identity in African American culture, and in learning about that culture, he jettisoned many of his prejudices. In addition to sharing his personal experiences, Irons discusses race in Charlotte, including his belief that socioeconomics can help explain segregation and his conclusions that neighborhood schools will doom Charlotte to resegregation.
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-0170/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 00:47:23.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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