- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Carrie Abramson, February 21, 1999
- Creator:
- Abramson, Carrie, 1969?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-02-21
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
Schools--North Carolina--Charlotte
Women--North Carolina--Charlotte
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Open plan schools--North Carolina--Charlotte
Education--North Carolina--Charlotte - People:
- Abramson, Carrie, 1969?-
- 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:
- Former West Charlotte High School student Carrie Abramson reflects on her experiences at West Charlotte and the role that the school's racial diversity played in her time there and in her future life. Abramson saw segregation increasingly insinuating itself into her educational life: at West Charlotte, occasional school-wide activities brought together black and white students who normally would not have sought each other out; at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she witnessed an even greater degree of segregation. Abramson's experience with de facto segregation at West Charlotte convinced her of the value of racial diversity, even if contact between white and black students is relatively limited.
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-0275/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 00:47:25
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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