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Oral history interview with Joanne Peerman, February 24, 2001 interview K-0557, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Summary: Joanne Peerman, a member of one of the first integrated classes at Chapel Hill High School and daughter of "bigger than life" Coach Peerman, grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and attended both segregated and integrated schools. This interview reveals some of the complex dynamics involved in civil rights protest: conflicts within families and concerns about retaliation, the influence of the media, and young people's passionate but not always focused efforts at protest. To Peerman and her fellow junior high and high school students, civil rights protest was not just about achieving certain goals, like diversifying the cheerleading team. It was also an opportunity to test their relationship with teachers and administrators, to assert themselves physically and intellectually, and to simply have fun. This interview also offers a portrait of one of Lincoln High School's iconic figures, Coach Peerman.

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Record details

  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource.
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:33:45.
Interview participants: Joanne Peerman, interviewee; Bob Gilgor, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.
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.
Title from menu page (viewed on March 7, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 100 kilobytes, 171.7 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0557, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 30 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Subject:
Peerman, Joanne Interviews
Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
African American students Civil rights North Carolina Chapel Hill
African American students Education North Carolina Chapel Hill
African Americans North Carolina Chapel Hill Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations North Carolina Chapel Hill
School integration North Carolina Chapel Hill
Segregation in education North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill (N.C.) Race relations
Genre:
Oral histories.

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