Segregation in education -- North Carolina
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Era before Brown vs. Board of Education oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-BB
Abstract
The interviews focus on the educational experiences of members of the African American community of Charlotte during the era of segregation. Many interviewees also discuss how things changed once segregation ended and their children’s school experiences.
Dates:
2004 - 2005
Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick on the Legacy of Slavery in Mecklenburg County
Collection
Identifier: OH-KP
Abstract
Native Charlotteans Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick discuss their ongoing journey together after discovering that their family histories were interwoven through the institution of slavery. Although they were both classmates at Myers Park High School in the mid-1960s, it was not until almost fifty years later that a newspaper article recounting the injustice Jimmie Lee had faced as a thwarted contender for the Shrine Bowl brought the two classmates into contact with each other. As...
Dates:
2017-10 - 2017-11
North Carolina school desegregation collection
Collection — Box SFC4 [F09.090.03.02], Folder: 413
Identifier: MS0413
Abstract
The N.C. School Desegregation collection, 1955-1956 (mss 413), is a small assortment (one folder) of mostly published material, generated by the faction that was opposed to the racial desegregation of public schools. The organizer of this material is not known.
Dates:
1955 - 1956
