Alice Garrett Brown (1943- ) graduated in 1965 from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was a music major. She taught music for thirty-six years in Greensboro City schools and Randolph County schools. Brown recalled growing up in Mocksville and Salisbury, North Carolina, and starting to play the piano in the third grade. She discusses her reasons for attending Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Brown talks about the five black freshman students attending the college in 1961 being segregated in one area of her dorm; campus academics; college traditions; dorm life and her roommates; the 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins; male students on campus; social life; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. She discusses music Professors Richard Cox and Elizabeth Cowling, singing in the campus Glee Club and Chorus, and being married to a Methodist minister.
