Oral history interview with Virginia Huey You, 2006 May 02.

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Huey You, Virginia. Oral history interview with Virginia Huey You, 2006 May 02.

Oral history interview with Virginia Huey You, 2006 May 02.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435681102

Interview with Virginia Huey You, an African-American alumna of North Texas State College, concerning her childhood in Fort Worth, Texas, and education in all-black public schools, including I.M. Terrell Senior High School; decision to enroll on scholarship at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, in Fall 1961; inability to continue at Paine and decision to enroll at NTSU in Fall 1962; experience boarding with Mrs. Moore in all-black "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton and later in Oak Street Dormitory Hall; social life among African-American students; perceptions of indifference, if not hostility, on part of NTSU administrators and professors toward African-American students; perception that acceptance of black athletes helped break down barriers of segregation on campus; perception of how race relations on campus improved rapidly in decades of 1960s and 1970s; warm feelings toward Denton African-American community; graduation from NTSU with B.A. in history, 1965, and M.S. in Gerontology, 1977.

34 leaves ; 29 cm.

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