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Nate Davis - On his childhood, education, and school integration

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on February 6, 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.

Tags: athletics, Basketball, Black Panthers, Bynum Weaver Funeral Home, Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill Junior High School, Charles McDougle, Coach Peerman, desegregation, domestic work, Guy B. Phillips Junior High, Hargraves Community Center, HBCU, janitor, Lincoln High School, maid, Northside Elementary School, Orange County Training School, Pottersfield, R.D. Smith, racism, Rangewood, riot, Sports; Athletics, teacher, Varsity Theater, Zora Rashkiss

Oral history interview of Davis, Nate conducted by Gilgor, Bob on February 6, 2001 at Hargraves Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Nate Davis - On his childhood, education, and school integration,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 25, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/nate-davis-on-his-childhood-education-and-school-integration.

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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