- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Robert Yost, November 22, 2000
- Creator:
- Yost, Robert, 1952-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2000-11-22
- Subject:
- Teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
School integration--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County
Student activities--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County
High school students--North Carolina--Social conditions
High school teachers--North Carolina--Charlotte
Teachers--North Carolina--Charlotte
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Student activities--North Carolina--Charlotte
High school students--North Carolina--Charlotte--Social conditions
Chess--North Carolina--Charlotte
Chess players--North Carolina--Charlotte - People:
- Yost, Robert, 1952-
- 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:
- Robert Yost discusses coaching chess and teaching English at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Yost's attention remains on the successes of the school's chess team for much of the interview, but he does share his thoughts on the changing racial character of West Charlotte and the school's image and performance problems. Yost does not pay much attention to race, he says, but has modified his teaching methods to make certain works of literature more appealing to African American students.
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-0487/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:34:12
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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