Oral history interview with Alma Enloe, May 18, 1998
Subtitle: interview K-0167, 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 Americans; Attitudes; Race relations; School integration; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview with Alma Enloe, May 18, 1998, interview K-0167, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview K-0167. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Alma Enloe misses her days at West Charlotte. She spends much of this interview reminiscing about her time in one of the last all-black classes to graduate from the school. Like many interviewees, she remembers West Charlotte as an extension of Charlotte's African American community and the essential role teachers and student activities played in keeping West Charlotte at the center. The marching band was, and is, good enough to draw crowds. Teachers were deeply invested in the lives of their students, and showed their commitment in and out of the home. At school and at home, students learned discipline and the importance of tidiness. This interview illustrates the depth of West Charlotte's importance to its black students before integration.
Notes: Interview participants: Alma Enloe, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K. Southern Communities. Interview K-0167. Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 29 p.

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

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