This transcript of an oral history interview conducted by William Chafe circa 1975 and with Jennie and Franklin Parker primarily documents the Parkers' involvement in interracial activities and their daughter's friendship with Josephine Boyd. Parker discusses local people and organizations that supported interracial activities, including Warren and Helen Ashby, Anna and George Simkins, Vance Chavis, Bill Wells, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Interracial Commission. She describes Josephine Boyd's plight at Greensboro Senior High, the reaction of administrators, reaching out to Boyd, and her daughter Ginger's lunches with Boyd. Other topics include the Parkers' interest in minorities, Paker's first experience on a segregated bus in Greensboro, difficulties between the Wesleyan Foundation and College Place United Methodist Church, the formation of the Reform Democrats, McNeill Smith's election to the state senate, and her daughter and son-in-law's careers.
