Linda Scales Dark (1946- ) graduated in 1968 from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) with a degree in biology. She received her nursing degree from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island is retired from Novant Health Community Wellness Department.<BR><BR>Dark recalls growing up in segregated Winston-Salem, North Carolina where she attended all-black elementary and high schools. She remembers protesting in front of the segregated K&W Cafeteria in Winston-Salem while in high school. Dark discusses attending Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio, pledging Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and deciding to transfer to UNCG because her boyfriend was attending North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro. She talks about going to summer school after transferring to UNCG, having a white student for a roommate that summer, learning about white culture from her roommate, studying to be a medical technologist, and having her high school friend, Martha Jo Hightower, Class of 1969, for her roommate the entire time she was at UNCG. Dark describes getting married right after graduation, moving to Canada for her husband's work, relocating to Newport, Rhode Island where she received a nursing degree, and then living in the Washington, DC area for over thirty years. She remembers the effect the murders of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Viola Liuzzo, and Emmett Till has on her. Dark concludes the interview by describing how attending UNCG changed her life.XXXX7072
