- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000
- Creator:
- Clark, Rebecca, b. 1920?
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gilgor, Bob
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2000-06-21
- Subject:
- African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Economic conditions
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations
Blacks--Segregation--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Politics and government
School integration--North Carolina--Chapel Hill - People:
- Clark, Rebecca, 1915-2009
Lee, Howard, 1934- - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Orange County, 36.0613, -79.1206
United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Rebecca Clark recalls living and working in segregated North Carolina. She finished her schooling in all-black schools, so the bulk of her experience with white people in a segregated context took place in the work world. There she experienced economic discrimination in a variety of forms, and despite her claims that many black people kept quiet in the face of racial discrimination at the time, she often agitated for, and won, better pay. Along with offering some information about school desegregation, this interview provides a look into the constricted economic lives of black Americans living under Jim Crow.
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-0536/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 03:18:40
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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