Oral history interview with Robert Yost, November 22, 2000
Subtitle: interview K-0487, 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; High school teachers; Teachers; Race relations; School integration; Student activities; High school students; Social conditions; Chess; Chess players; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0487, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Robert Yost, November 22, 2000; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Robert Yost discusses coaching chess and teaching English at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C. Yost's attention remains on the successes of the school's chess team for much of the interview, but he does share his thoughts on the changing racial character of West Charlotte and the school's image and performance problems. Yost does not pay much attention to race, he says, but has modified his teaching methods to make certain works of literature more appealing to African American students.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 3, 2008).

Interview participants: Robert Yost, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer.

Duration: 01:34:12

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-0487, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 47 p.

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

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