Oral History Interview with Gloria Register Jeter, December 23, 2000. Interview K-0549. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
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Abstract
Gloria Register Jeter, who attended segregated and integrated public schools in Chapel Hill, recalls the damage visited on the black community by integration. Integration was a "mess," she argues, pointing out that when black and white schools merged, black traditions often did not survive the process. Student protests managed to restore some of Lincoln High School's traditions to the new Chapel Hill High School, but according to Jeter, the legacies of institutionalized racism are permanent. This interview reveals some of the frustration black students felt during the integration process and their efforts to fix enduring inequalities in day-to-day academic life. Jeter tells the story of black students involved in a constant struggle for respect and recognition.
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Orientation discriminates against black students
Tensions between black students, white teachers, and white students
Changing post-integration relationships between students and teachers
Integration brings cultural changes
Black students protest in school
Black students riot for change
Family life in a segregated context
Black students protest loss of school tradition
Anger at the failures of integration
Loss of black traditions in integration
Tensions between black students and white teachers
Upward Bound helps black students
Teachers' disinterest in black students
Black students' anger in integrated context
Endurance of racism
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Subjects
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations
School integration--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Jeter, Gloria Register
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