In this transcript of an October 5, 1988, oral history interview conducted by William Link with Linda McDougle, Linda McDougle discusses her influences, experiences, and observations of race relations as a light-skinned African-American growing up in Burlington, North Carolina, including her employment as the first black cashier in a white grocery store. She primarily discusses her career in the Greensboro Public School system, where she was the first black teacher at Jackson Middle School in the late 1960s, and her memories of integration in 1971. McDougle also mentions her involvement in local civil rights demonstrations as a student at N.C. Central student.
