Oral history interview with Robert Logan, December 28, 1990
Subtitle: interview M-0027, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Wells, Goldie F. (Goldie Frinks), 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: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; African American school principals; High schools; Administration; Secondary Education; African Americans; Education (Secondary); Race relations in school management; Hugh M. Cummings High School (Burlington, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview M-0027, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Robert Logan, December 28, 1990; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: At the time of this interview, Robert Logan was the principal of Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, NC. He responds to the interviewers' checklist of questions, describing his practices as a supervisor, his involvement in instruction, disciplinary practices, transportation, and building upkeep. Logan also manages to share more of his views on race and education than do other interviewees in this series. He reflects on the unkept promises of desegregation, and what he experiences as the steady decline of opportunities for black administrators and the rise in racism since a brief period of balance. He received job offers only at schools in crisis as his white counterparts took prestigious positions. This interview offers some insights into the role of race in modern education and the way in which huge issues like race and desegregation mesh with smaller ones, like administrative problems, to create frustrating challenges for educators.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008).

Interview participants: Robert Logan, interviewee; Goldie F. Wells, interviewer.

Duration: 01:40:27.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series M, black high school principals, interview M-0027, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 27 p.

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

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