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Francesina Jackson and Charlene Regester - On family, education, and school integration

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on December 13, 2000

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.

Francesina Jackson and Charlene Regester - On family, education, and school integration

Francesina Jackson and Charlene Regester - On family, education, and school integration

Francesina Jackson and Charlene Regester - On family, education, and school integration

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Oral history interview of Jackson, Francesina conducted by Gilgor, Bob on December 13, 2000 at Home of Francesina Jackson, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Francesina Jackson and Charlene Regester - On family, education, and school integration,” From the Rock Wall, accessed April 26, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/francesina-jackson-and-charlene-regester-december-13-17-2000.

Rights: Open for research. The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) welcomes non-commercial use and access that qualifies as fair use to all unrestricted interview materials in the collection. The researcher must cite and give proper credit to the SOHP. The SOHP requests that the researcher informs the SOHP as to how and where they are using the material.

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In this Oral History

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

Charlene B. Regester

"I have a niece who went to Chapel Hill High and just based on some of the comments she's made to me, I have the impression that things haven't changed all that much..." - Charlene B. Regester

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