Home > Images > Mrs. Frances Hargraves Image Mrs. Frances Hargraves Can you help us caption this item? Let us know! Share on Twitter , Facebook , or by email . Citation: “Mrs. Frances Hargraves,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 26, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/images/mrs-frances-hargraves. "We’re writing our own history, thank you!" Ms. Esphur Foster Want to add in? Have a different view? What do you think? Want to upload your own photos or documents? History is not the past. It’s the sense we make of the past now. Click below to RESPOND—and be part of making history today. Respond In this Image Frances Hargraves "In the first place, I never felt that the schools [were integrated]; they were not integrated. They were desegregated." - Frances Hargraves Frances Hargraves More to explore Frances Hargraves - on community support for Lincoln High students (clip) BG: I think this is interesting, and a lot of it is theoretical. So I want to go back to Lincoln High School and more of your memories of Lincoln High School. What the teachers were like, what the students were like. The sports, and the band, the chorus. Anything else you remember from Lincoln… Frances Hargraves - on community support for Lincoln High students (clip) Frances Hargraves - on school pride at Lincoln High (clip) BG: What was the feeling about Lincoln High School when it was moved to Merritt Mill Road in 1951? How did the community relate to the school? FH: Wonderful, wonderful! Good heavens, you had everything: space, better school, more equipment. All of it was just wonderful. Very accepting of moving to a… Frances Hargraves - on school pride at Lincoln High (clip) Frances Hargraves - on being the first certified special education teacher in Orange County (clip) FH: at that time it was hard to find qualified teachers. That's why they sent me. I was the first teacher in Orange County to be certified to teach special education. So I ran a lot of workshops. And when I came back, UNC, this university up here sent students to me to train. BG: In teaching… Frances Hargraves - on being the first certified special education teacher in Orange County (clip) Frances Hargraves - on her experience at Hackney School (clip) FH: I guess I was just like any other youngster. I was more concerned about the neighborhood and being accepted by my peers and also my relatives. Just being a part of what was going on, and playing games, and going to school like any child would at that period. You must remember I was born in 1914.… Frances Hargraves - on her experience at Hackney School (clip) Mrs. Frances Hargraves teaches students Mrs. Hargraves talks to a group of students. Mrs. Frances Hargraves teaches students Frances Hargraves - On childhood, family, education, and teaching "I remember my mother always told me, 'Whatever job you must do, be sure you give it your best.' She said if it’s sweeping the floor, washing dishes, anything, do it your best. And as I grew, that was her philosophy - always give it your best. And I still carry that philosophy." - Frances… Frances Hargraves - On childhood, family, education, and teaching Frances Hargraves This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives and struggle of various members of the Northside community: a historically black and primarily residential neighborhood located immediately northwest of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and… Frances Hargraves Back to all images
