- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001
- Creator:
- Nickerson, Stella
- 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.)
Segregation in education--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 Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Attitudes
African American students--Education (Secondary)--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) - People:
- Nickerson, Stella
- 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:
- Stella Nickerson provides a relatively complete picture of her young life during the integration process. She describes a closely knit, harmonious black community in which she grew up without fear, a community that wove together elements of work, school, and religion. Integration transformed tightly disciplined black schools into more unruly places without ties to their communities. This interview is more useful as a source of information on the small goings-on of everyday life than it is as a source of broad evaluative statements about the integration of public education.
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-0554/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:12:00.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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