This transcript of a July 11, 1973, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Mary Taft Smith primarily documents Ms. Smith's opinions of desegregation and participation in interracial activities in Greensboro. Topics include her membership in the League of Women Voters, an interracial fellowship organization, and a social concerns group at West Market Street Methodist Church; writing a letter calling for the business desegregation; the integration of Greensboro schools; her husband's election to the school board and their response to Brown v. Board of Education; Ben Smith and the slow response to school desegregation; segregation in local churches and race relations at West Market Street Methodist; Greensboro College's policy towards blacks; her and her husband's reputation in the community; her opinion of Greensboro as progressive; and the Greensboro power structure.
