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Lucile McDougle

Joanne McClelland

"We were a very bold group of African-American students, it was just something about the African-American kids in my class; we were not going to allow certain things to happen. And so, when we got together. . .and talked about how unfair it was and how it was not right to have some of our friends,…

Polly McCauley

John Mason

"At the time I was born, Blacks could’nt be born at the hospital. So, you know, I’m 51 years old if you want to count back and see how many years ago--strange enough my brother, my youngest brother was the first Black born at UNC hospital!" - John Mason

Mary Manning

Kenneth Mann

Marie Mann

Estelle Mabry

Howard Lee

David Kirkman

Betty King

Mary Norwood Jones

Gloria Register Jeter

Francesina Jackson

"We grew up learning to speak to everybody or every Black person you saw and it was kind of funny because when you go outside of your area, you still have that tendency!" - Fran Jackson

Curtis Harper

"[Churches] were the institutions that Black people owned. They didn’t own school buildings; they didn’t own anything where they could meet." - Curtis Harper

Molly Hargraves

Frances Hargraves

"In the first place, I never felt that the schools [were integrated]; they were not integrated. They were desegregated." - Frances Hargraves

Sylvester Hackney

Everett Goldston

Vivian Foushee

Valerie P. Foushee

Clarke Egerton

Barbara Ross

Sherdenia Thompson Dunn