Oral history interview with Alice Battle, February 20, 2001
Subtitle: interview K-0523, 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; African American students; Segregation in education; School integration; Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Orange County Training School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview K-0523, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Alice Battle, February 20, 2001; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Alice Battle, who attended segregated Lincoln High School and later taught there, recalls her experiences in pre-integration Chapel Hill. This interview offers an interesting picture of life before integration. Battle tells some familiar stories, such as of the disciplinarian principal of Lincoln High School, C.A. McDougle. She also tells some less familiar ones, such as how poor white students from Carrboro bore the brunt of discrimination alongside black students. Researchers interested in the patterns of daily life in black communities during segregation should look to the first half of the interview for relevant passages.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 15, 2007).

Interview participants: Alice Battle, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.

Duration: 01:34:24.

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 Natalia Smith.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0523, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 44 p.

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

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