Oral history interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001
Subtitle: interview K-0554, 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; African Americans; Social life and customs; Segregation; School integration; Attitudes; African American students; Education (Secondary); Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0554, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Nickerson provides a relatively complete picture of her young life during the integration process. She describes a closely knit, harmonious black community in which she grew up without fear--a community that wove together elements of work, school, and religion. Integration transformed tightly disciplined black schools into more unruly places without ties to their communities. This interview is more useful as a source of information on the small goings-on of everyday life than it is as a source of broad evaluative statements about the integration of public education.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on July 2, 2007).

Interview participants: Stella Nickerson, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:12:00.

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-0554, 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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