Black teachers and administrators at CHHS
Cheek shares her vague recollections of the few black teachers and administrators at Chapel Hill High School in the early 1970s.
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Oral History Interview with Kathryn Cheek, March 27, 2003. Interview K-0203. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Well, going back to whenever you were in
school too. I was wondering about black teachers, if you had many black
teachers or-
- KATHRYN CHEEK:
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I remember a couple. I don't remember very many. One in high school in
particular who fostered the business interests that I had at the time,
the office management and that kind of stuff. And she was she's the only
black teacher that I can really remember. We had an assistant principal
at the high school who was black. Actually, no, we had two. There was a
man who had been assistant principal forever I think, or who had been in
the school system forever and he was, kind of, the kids thought he was a
joke. And then there was this other lady who was a typing teacher, but
was also some form of assistant principal of some sort. And she was the
disciplinarian. And she was a large woman and
she, we were all scared to death of her.
[Laughter]
She was very affective when you had skipped class and she was
standing in the parking lot waiting for you. But that's all I remember.
