This transcript of an oral history conducted by William Chafe circa 1973 with Evelyn Troxler primarily documents Ms. Troxler's involvement in school desegregation in Greensboro in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education, causes for the delay in implementing token school desegregation; Superintendent Ben Smith; the Pearsall Plan; forming a study group of mothers investigating potential problems; meeting at the YWCA; support from the American Friends Service Committee and merger with the Greensboro Community Fellowship; meeting with the school board; raising awareness of the application process for changing schools; hurdles in the process; picnics for students of newly integrated schools; recieving and later court-mandated integration. Troxler also discusses running a kindergarten program at Bennett College's Children's House; tutoring programs for communities such as East White Oak; lack of pro-integration action from churches; the Commission on Christian Social Concerns at West Market Methodist Church; reasons for not becoming involved in the sit-ins; and improvement in Greensboro race relations.
