- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Sheila Florence, January 20, 2001
- Creator:
- Florence, Sheila, 1947-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gilgor, Bob
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2001-01-20
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Social life and customs--20th century
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century
African American students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--20th century - People:
- Florence, Sheila, 1947-
- 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:
- Sheila Florence, among the first African Americans to desegregate Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, remembers growing up in the segregated South and working to end desegregation. She recalls the poor conditions at all-black schools in Chapel Hill and the harassment she endured when she entered the formerly all-white Chapel Hill High School. Although she was courageous enough to be a part of the desegregation of a school, she asserts that she was not brave enough to face arrest in protests. She did, however, picket with other civil rights marchers. Researchers interested in the details of life in a low-income African American community after World War II should look to the beginning of this interview for additional information.
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-0544/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:39:54
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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