Oral History

Lucile McDougle

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on February 21, 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.

Lucile McDougle

Lucile McDougle

Oral history interview of McDougle, Lucie conducted by Gilgor, Bob on February 21, 2001.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Lucile McDougle,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 27, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/lucile-mcdougle-2.

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.

View this interview on the Southern Oral History Program website

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