Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000
Subtitle: interview K-0536, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Gilgor, Bob, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; African Americans; Economic conditions; Race relations; Black people; Segregation; Politics and government; School integration; Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0536. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Rebecca Clark recalls living and working in segregated North Carolina. She finished her schooling in all-black schools, so the bulk of her experience with white people in a segregated context took place in the work world. There she experienced economic discrimination in a variety of forms, and despite her claims that many black people kept quiet in the face of racial discrimination at the time, she often agitated for, and won, better pay. Along with offering some information about school desegregation, this interview provides a look into the constricted economic lives of black Americans living under Jim Crow.
Notes: Title from electronic title page of transcript (viewed on March 7, 2007).

Interview participants: Rebecca Clark, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.

Duration: 03:18:40.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0536, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer, February 2001. Original transcript: 25 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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