Raney Norwood - On her childhood, school integration, and race
Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on January 9, 2001
"The whole neighborhood was love. It was one big thing. When you still went home by yourself, you weren't in a neighborhood by yourself. Every door was open."
- Raney Norwood
This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change. Raney Norwood recalls his time in Lincoln High School, and the subsequent desegregation and school merger with Chapel Hill High. He discusses the major differences between Lincoln and Chapel Hill High. He talks about his childhood, thoughts on events growing up, and how the community cared for children.
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.
