Shari Manning

Interviewed by Bob Gilgor on March 7, 2001

Shari Manning discusses growing up in Chapel Hill and her education. She shares her experience with East Chapel Hill High School and her knowledge of Lincoln High School. She also discusses the adversity she has faced, and how she feels underrepresented in the school system and in course materials such as history books. She talks about the importance of minority focused extracurriculars and church.

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.

Oral history interview of Manning, Shari conducted by Gilgor, Bob on March 7, 2001 at Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill, NC. Processed by Parker, Destiny.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Shari Manning,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 23, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/shari-manning-2.

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