Oral history interview of Theodore Adams regarding his efforts in desegregating Orangeburg High School in 1964. Interview was completed for the Somebody Had To Do It project initiated by the African American Education and Research Organization
This interview with Mrs. Arlonial DeLaine Bradford details many of her experiences growing up and raising children during integration in the south. As the niece of civil rights icon, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Mrs. Bradford gives firsthand and intimate accounts of his successes and struggles throughout the school desegregation movement. Mrs. Bradford also explores her children's experience being the first to integrate Anderson Elementary in Kingstree, 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.
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.
