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Gloria Regester Jeter - On school integration and racial discrimination

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on December 23, 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.

Tags: Chapel Hill High School, Civil Rights, desegregation, domestic work, Guy B. Phillips Junior High, HBCU, Johnson C. Smith University, Lincoln High School, Northside Elementary School, riot, socioeconomic difference, UNC

Oral history interview of Jeter, Gloria Regester conducted by Gilgor, Bob on December 23, 2000 at Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill, NC. Processed by Pearson, Susan.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Gloria Regester Jeter - On school integration and racial discrimination,” From the Rock Wall, accessed May 19, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/gloria-regester-jeter.

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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