Sandra Byrd Tatum (1942 - ) was one of the few African American students admitted in 1960 to Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina. She attended Woman's College from 1960 to 1962 and then transferred to Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia to study nursing. Sandra Byrd Tatum recalls attending segregated Grace Lutheran School, Lincoln Junior High School, and Dudley Senior High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. She discusses living in the segregated residence halls at Woman's College, her roommates, the Greensboro Four (the four North Carolina A&T State College students who began the Greensboro Sit-ins in February 1960), the Greensboro Sit-ins, her nursing career, and working for the North Carolina Health and Human Services Division as a nursing consultant.
