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Cecilia Davis - On growing up in Raleigh and teaching at Lincoln High

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on April 19, 2001

This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Lincoln High School, the historically black secondary school that closed in 1962 when a school desegregation plan was implemented. Interviewees discuss African American life and race relations in Chapel Hill, as well as education, discipline, extracurricular activities, and high school social life before and after integration.

Cecilia Davis - On growing up in Raleigh and teaching at Lincoln High

Cecilia Davis - On growing up in Raleigh and teaching at Lincoln High

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Oral history interview of Davis, Cecilia conducted by Gilgor, Bob on April 19, 2001 at Home of Cecilia Battle, Durham, NC.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Cecilia Davis - On growing up in Raleigh and teaching at Lincoln High,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 27, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/cecilia-davis-on-growing-up-in-raleigh-and-teaching-at-lincoln-high.

Rights: Researcher must obtain written permission of interviewee, interviewer, director of the Southern Oral History Program, or director of the Chapel Hill Museum for publication.

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"[Lincoln] wasn’t integrated and I didn’t know anything about integrated schools, cause I never went to one and I never worked at one. But I loved working at Lincoln." - Cecilia Davis
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