Oral history interview with Willa V. Robinson, January 14, 2004
Subtitle: interview U-0014, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Lowery, Malinda Maynor, 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; Race relations; School integration; African Americans; Social life and customs; Civil rights; Civil rights demonstrations
Other titles: Interview U-0014, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Willa V. Robinson, January 14, 2004; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: This interview reveals a variety of responses to the integration process in North Carolina. Willa V. Robinson describes the integration process in Maxton, N.C. Robinson, who grew up poor in this small town in eastern North Carolina, attended all-black schools, and her children were among the last students in the area to attend segregated schools. The Maxton area has a significant Indian population, but their presence did not seem to complicate the integration process or many whites' response to it. Some whites responded by burning down a black school, but most simply pulled their children from public schools. The legacy of this flight is underfunded public schools.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 5, 2007).

Interview participants: Willa V. Robinson, interviewee; Malinda Maynor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:16:04.

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 U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0014, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sharon Caughill. Original transcript: 36 p.

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

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