Linda Wilson McDougle (1944- ) graduated in1966 from North Carolina College (NCC), now North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. She received a Master of Education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1970. McDougle also has an education specialist degree from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and certification in administration from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. McDougle talks about growing up on a farm in Alamance County, North Carolina and her family being of mixed heritage: African American, Caucasian, and Native American. She remembers driving a school bus for the segregated high school she attended in Graham, North Carolina; her mentor, Dr. Perry Mack, who encouraged her to attend college; working in the NCC library and local grocery store to earn money for college; and being Miss Homecoming and Miss Law School at NCC. McDougle discusses teaching earth science, being the first black teacher, first female assistant principal, and then principal at Jackson Junior High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. She also talks about the integration of the Greensboro school system, race relations, busing, and private church related academies.
