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| Creator: | Hopkins, Madge, 1943- |
| Creator: | Grundy, Pamela |
| Title: | Oral history interview with Madge Hopkins, October 17, 2000 |
| Date: | 2000 Oct. 17 |
| Description: | Madge Hopkins, a graduate of West Charlotte High School and the vice principal of the school at the time of the interview, describes her experiences growing up in segregated Charlotte and desegregation at West Charlotte. Hopkins remembers the humiliating environment segregation created, but she describes herself as "traditional," she was reluctant to join student protests at West Charlotte being instigated by a younger generation of African American students. Her belief, at the time of the interview, that the majority-black West Charlotte was a separate and unequal school indicates her concern that the promises of desegregation might not yet have been realized. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Hopkins, Madge, 1943- | Teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century | West Charlotte High School (N.C.) | Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations | School integration--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County | Busing for school integration--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County | African American women teachers--North Carolina | African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte | African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Attitudes | Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.) | African Americans--Education--North Carolina | School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte | Charlotte (N.C.) | Mecklenburg County (N.C.) |
| Collection: | Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement |
| Institution: | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Contributors: | Southern Oral History Program | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library | Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) |
| Online Publisher: | [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. | 2006 |
| Original Material: | Title from menu page (viewed on November 5, 2007). Interview participants: Madge Hopkins, interviewee; Pamela Grundy, interviewer. Duration: 01:04:14. 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. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0481/menu.html |
