Oral history interview with Leroy Miller, June 8, 1998
Subtitle: interview K-0174, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Grundy, Pamela, 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; School integration; Race relations in school management; Race relations; Public schools; School discipline; Teachers; School administrators; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.); East Mecklenburg High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0174, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Leroy Miller, June 8, 1998; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: This interview is relatively thick with the day-to-day details of high school administration but should prove useful for researchers examining how black education professionals weathered the desegregation process. While many black teachers and administrators lost their positions during desegregation, Miller fielded a number of offers of leadership posts. The interview is a look at some of the smaller, on-the-ground changes that occurred during integration in Charlotte, from the pairing of black and white administrators to black students taking up cigarette smoking on school grounds.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 15, 2007).

Interview participants: Leroy Miller, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer.

Duration: 02:04:07.

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.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 121.1 kilobytes, 227.3 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0174, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 35 p.

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

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