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- Jesse Helms on busing
- In this oral history excerpt of an interview between Jack Bass and Senator Jesse Helms in 1974, Jesse Helms addresses busing and racial antagonisms.
- Format: audio
- Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama
- Taken in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 11, 1963, this black and white photograph shows Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama outside Foster Auditorium while being confronted by Deputy United States Attorney General...
- Format: image/photograph
- Professor Wallace Caldwell (1890–1961) with unnamed domestic
- In this black and white photograph, a young black woman is serving Professor Caldwell at a dining table. The college servants were all men, but African American women often worked for faculty families. Due to domestic servants' low wages, even modestly paid...
- Format: image/photograph
- De facto vs. de jure segregation
- This lesson for grades 11 and 12 will help students understand the difference between de facto and de jure segregation. Students will listen to three oral history excerpts and discuss the experiences of segregation described in each. As a follow-up activity, students will brainstorm solutions to both de facto and de jure segregation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Fred Battle oral history excerpt
- Fred Battle is a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina who experienced segregation as he came of age in the 1950s and 1960s. He participated in the sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C. in 1960 to desegregate the lunch counter at the local Woolworth’s store, and...
- Format: audio/interview
- Madge Hopkins oral history excerpt
- Madge Hopkins is a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina who attended segregated schools and later became the vice-principal of an integrated school in the 1990s. Here, she remembers the hurt caused by segregation, which she felt even as a small child: She...
- Format: audio/interview
- Jeff Black oral history excerpt
- Jeff Black is a resident of Charlotte who attended its desegregated schools in the 1990s. Here, he talks about the school segregation that he sees outside the classroom.
- Format: audio/interview
- Desegregating public schools: Integrated vs. neighborhood schools
- In this high school lesson plan, students will learn about the history of the "separate but equal" U.S. school system and the 1971 Swann case which forced Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to integrate. Students will examine the pros and cons of integration achieved through busing, and will write an argumentative essay drawing on information from oral histories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- A record of school desegregation: Conduct your own oral history project
- In this unit for grade 8, students will research the history of school desegregation, and will use their knowledge to conduct oral history interviews with community members. Students will reflect on the experience through writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Joanne Peerman oral history excerpt
- Joanne Peerman attended middle and high school during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first years of school desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her father was the head football coach at the all-black high school before integration, but held the...
- Format: audio/interview
- William Culp oral history excerpt
- Excerpt from oral history interview with William Culp, a teacher who taught at an integrated school in Charlotte. Although he attended segregated schools in the 1950s, William Culp’s children attended integrated schools in Charlotte, NC in the 1970s and...
- Format: audio/interview
- William Hamlin oral history excerpt
- William Hamlin attended segregated schools in Charlotte, NC in the 1950s and 1960s, but later sent his children to integrated schools. Here, he explains his opinions about integrated schools, and why tolerance of others may be more important than legal desegregation....
- Format: audio/interview
- Arthur Griffin oral history excerpt
- Arthur Griffin is an African-American man who attended segregated schools in the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated from Second Ward High School, an African-American high school in Charlotte, North Carolina which closed in 1969. He later became involved in school...
- Format: audio/interview
- Ned Irons oral history excerpt
- Ned Irons is a white student who attended West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, NC during the late 1990s, many years after the Swann ruling required the school to integrate in the early 1970s, but before busing ended in 2001. West Charlotte is a traditionally...
- Format: audio/interview
- Latrelle McAllister oral history excerpt
- Latrelle McAllister is an African-American woman who attended West Charlotte High School from 1973 until 1976, during the first years of integration. She speaks about her experiences of both segregated and integrated schools during her interview, and compares...
- Format: audio/interview
- School desegregation pioneers
- In this lesson, students will learn about the challenges faced by the first students to desegregate Southern schools. Students will hear oral histories telling the story of desegregation pioneers from Alabama and North Carolina and critically analyze images of school desegregation. They will synthesize the information by writing a narrative from the point of view of a black student desegregating a white school.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Madge Hopkins oral history excerpt (desegregation)
- Madge Hopkins attended segregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. She remembers hearing abut Dorothy Counts, a young woman she knew through church, becoming one of the first four students to desegregate Charlotte’s schools. Counts struggled with verbal...
- Format: audio/interview
- Sheila Florence oral history excerpt
- Sheila Florence was one of the first students to desegregate schools in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. When she began attending Chapel Hill Junior High School in 1962, she endured hurtful treatment from her white classmates, who refused to sit by her, used racial...
- Format: audio/interview
- Daisy Bates oral history excerpt
- Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist and the head of the state chapter of the NAACP. She served as advisor to the Little Rock Nine, nine black students who enrolled at the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Alabama in 1957. She helped the students...
- Format: audio/interview
- Selected excerpts from Frederick Douglass slave narrative
- Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818. He escaped from slavery at age 20 and became an active figure in the abolitionist movement, eventually becoming one of the most important black American figures of the 19th century. In these excerpts from his first autobiography, he describes his experiences as a slave.
- Format: book/primary source
