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William Gattis - How far we have come (clip)

Interviewed on March 26, 2025

William Gattis: And it did not stop in the ‘50s. We experienced–we are still experiencing part of the fallout, but this went on through the ‘60s. The students from Lincoln High School, this was beginning in 1962 through ‘64, we’re talking about teenagers. And it has also been said that unfortunately, we were taught to respect adults, and unfortunately, you’re respecting the very people who are oppressing you. Why? Because it’s part of your home training. And this has just been an unfortunate thing but–an unfortunate representation of who we are and from how far we have come.

William Gattis - How far we have come (clip)

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Oral history interview of Gattis, William on March 26, 2025 at St. Joseph CME Church Fellowship Hall, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “William Gattis - How far we have come (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/william-gattis-how-far-we-have-come-clip.

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