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Date:: 8/8/2011
Description:: This interview with Lucy Brenda Patterson Frinks details her experience as one of the ten Black students in the second year of integration at Abbeville High School, in Abbeville, South Carolina. The interview was done in conjunction with the "Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American "first children" who desegregated America's schools. Mrs. Frinks gives insight into the experience at the school when most of the ten African Americans at the newly integrated school were her family members; relationships with her teachers/administrators; and post mass-integration relations at the school.

Date:: 8/1/2013
Description:: This interview with Dr. Carlton Wilson highlights his experiences as a child chosen to help desegregate public schools in Warrenton, North Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to looking at the effects of this school integration on the people of Warrenton, Dr. Wilson provides detailed examples of some of the challenges he and his peers faced as children directly involved in the integration movement. The interview was done in conjunction with the “Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American “first children" who desegregated America’s schools. Serving as one of those “first children," Dr. Wilson recounts the dynamics of school desegregation in Warrenton at that time.

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