Robert Yow (1951-2012) graduated in 1973 from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) with a degree in mathematical education. Yow discusses growing up in the Proximity Mill neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina. He talks about attending Proximity Middle School, Page High School, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Yow recalls going to see the civil rights demonstrations in Greensboro when he was ten or eleven years old, segregation in Greensboro, and the integration of Page High School and other schools in the mid-1960s. He talks about student activism in the late 1960s and the shooting of students at Kent State University in 1970. Yow discusses teaching mathematics and coaching athletics at Northwest High School from the mid-1970s until his retirement in 2002.
