Frances Grahamjones (1949- ) graduated in 1971 from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) with a degree in speech pathology. She has a master's degree from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Grahamjones recalls growing up in segregated Greensboro, North Carolina, during the 1950s and 1960; participating in the 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins; and the Civil Rights Movement. She remembers being orphaned at the age of twelve and then living with her godmother; attending Allen High School, which was a boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina; and her reasons for attending UNCG and majoring in speech pathology. Grahamjones discusses living off campus during her freshman year at a community house sponsored by the Wesley Foundation and her regrets about doing so, and UNCG professor Murray Arndt's classes on African American writers and William Faulkner. She talks about being a member of the Neo-Black Society, being admitted to the Golden Chain, playing bid whist with other black students, and opposing the Vietnam War. Grahamjones concludes the interview by giving her thoughts about her speech pathology courses and her education at UNCG.
