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Raney Norwood - On her childhood, school integration, and race

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on January 9, 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.

Raney Norwood - On her childhood, school integration, and race

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Oral history interview of Norwood, Raney conducted by Gilgor, Bob on January 9, 2001 at Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Raney Norwood - On her childhood, school integration, and race,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 21, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/raney-norwood-on-her-childhood-school-integration-and-race-relations.

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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…
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