Karen Lynn Parker (1943- ) attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina, from 1961 to 1963. She transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963 where she majored in journalism. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1965, she worked as a copy editor and journalist for several local and national newspapers.<BR><BR>Parker talks about growing up in segregated Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the importance of education in her family, and her decision to attend Woman's College. She recalls being a summer intern at the Winston-Salem Journal and meeting reporter Luix Overbea who encouraged her to go into journalism. Parker remembers other black students at Woman's College, campus life, picketing on Tate Street and downtown Greensboro to desegregate the stores and restaurants, and her family's reaction to her involvement in the protests. She discusses her decision to transfer to UNC-Chapel Hill where she was the first black female student, and being arrested for participating in protests to integrate local restaurants.XXXX7101
