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Daisy Spears Stroud describes her life and experiences as an educator in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Mrs. Stroud's teaching career spanned the transition from racially segregated to integrated education, and she describes working in a range of environments, from a one-room rural school to a newly-constructed school with many resources, Oaklawn Elementary. Mrs. Stroud recounts anecdotes that illustrate the school integration process, and notes that early on, black educators and students were individually selected to integrate white schools. Mrs. Stroud also talks about her husband, Gerson Stroud, a celebrated principal and administrator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.

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Title
Daisy Stroud oral history interview 2, 2005 February 3
Creator
Stroud, Daisy S., 1921- interviewee
Contributor
Metzger, Mary, interviewer
Date (Text)
2005-02-03
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (1:23:42) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (43 pages : PDF)
Biographical/Historical Note
Daisy S. Stroud was an 83-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in her home in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Charlotte in 1921. She was educated at West Charlotte High School and Fayetteville State University, and was employed as a teacher.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:200
System Control No.
BB-ST0016
Subject (Person)
Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Sasso, Sterletta, 1902-1970
Subject (Corporate)
Fayetteville State Teachers College
Billingsville Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Oaklawn Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Oakdale Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Ranson Junior High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Subject (Topic)
African Americans--Segregation
Segregation in education
School integration
Teachers
Race relations
Racism in education
School discipline
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Rockingham
Subject (Date)
1900-2010
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Grant Information
Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Record Appears in
Oral History Collections > The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master file. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using Digidesign 003 rack.
2014-01-31
Related Materials
Gerson Stroud papers, 1905-2001. J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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