Oral history interview with Harriet Gentry Love, June 17, 1998
Subtitle: interview K-0171, 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; African American women; Attitudes; School integration; Race relations; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0171, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Harriet Gentry Love, June 17, 1998; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: This interview does not focus a great deal of attention on race, integration, and education in Charlotte, NC, but Harriet Love, an African American woman who has spent most of her life in Charlotte, details her high regard for West Charlotte High School and in doing so offers some revealing points on race in a southern city. Love attended West Charlotte before integration and her two children enrolled there afterward, so she is able to discuss the school's two identities: as a core element of the African American community, and as a model of successful integration. Many of Love's recollections were not excerpted because they did not deal directly with integration and race at West Charlotte. Interviewers interested in the details of life as a West Charlotte student outside of the role of race in its history should read this interview in its entirety.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 29, 2007).

Interview participants: Harriet Gentry Love, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer.

Duration: 01:12:05.

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 Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern Communities, interview K-0171, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 36 p.

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

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