- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with George Miller, January 19, 1991
- Creator:
- Miller, George, 1918-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Wells, Goldie F. (Goldie Frinks)
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1991-01-19
- Subject:
- African American high school principals--North Carolina
High school principals--North Carolina
African American school principals--North Carolina--Wilkes County
High schools--North Carolina--Wilkes County--Administration
Community and school--North Carolina
Race relations in school management--North Carolina--Wilkes County - People:
- Miller, George, 1918-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Wilkes County, 36.20621, -81.16292
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- George Miller, a former principal in Wilkes County, North Carolina, discusses the importance of knowing the day-to-day inner life of the public school system. Miller emphasized honesty and mutual respect for teachers, staff, and students. His early endorsement of sexual education reflected this philosophy. To Miller, moreover, behavior management was vitally important in controlling the school. His supervision of every aspect of the school system, from student discipline procedures to housekeeping duties, reflects his military background. Miller also discusses the effects of public school desegregation in North Carolina, which yielded beneficial results for blacks academically. However, while desegregation also forced his white colleagues to acknowledge his requests for adequate resources for black students, Miller argues that his race limited his professional advancement.
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/M-0015/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 17, 2008).
Interview participants: George Miller, interviewee; Goldie F. Wells, interviewer.
Duration: 01:31:41.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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