Oral history interview with Raney Norwood, January 9, 2001
Subtitle: interview K-0556, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Gilgor, Bob, 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; African American students; Education (Secondary); Civil rights; Segregation in education; Civil rights demonstrations; Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Upward bound math-science program
Other titles: Interview K-0556, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Raney Norwood, January 9, 2001; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Raney Norwood recalls the maddening process of integration in Chapel Hill. Upon entering the new, integrated Chapel Hill High School, he and other African American students left behind the educational traditions of Lincoln High. They spent their first year at CHHS struggling to reclaim them through non-violent and violent means. Norwood describes the so-called riot through which black students demanded the restoration of Lincoln's educational and athletic traditions, and one dramatic instance of violent white supremacy which resulted in the death of one of Norwood's friends. This interview presents a picture of a community roiled by the struggle to integrate and the different ways in which black students responded to the uncertainty and injustice of the process.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 20, 2007).

Interview participants: Raney Norwood, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:46:07.

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 Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0556, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 30 p.

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

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