Oral history interview with Madge Hopkins, October 17, 2000
Subtitle: interview K-0481, 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 teachers; African Americans; Attitudes; Education; Race relations; School integration; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0481, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Madge Hopkins, October 17, 2000; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Madge Hopkins, a graduate of West Charlotte High School and the vice-principal of the school at the time of the interview, describes her experiences growing up in segregated Charlotte and desegregation at West Charlotte. Hopkins remembers the humiliating environment segregation created, but she describes herself as "traditional" -- she was reluctant to join student protests at West Charlotte being instigated by a younger generation of African American students. Her belief, at the time of the interview, that the majority-black West Charlotte was a separate and unequal school indicates her concern that the promises of desegregation might not yet have been realized.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 5, 2007).

Interview participants: Madge Hopkins, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer.

Duration: 01:04:14.

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-0481, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Susan Estep. Original transcript: 28 p.

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

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