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Title	Oral history interview with Clara Withers Berryhill, 2013 [full audio recording]
Date	2013-05-11
Creator	Berryhill, Clara Withers
Contributors	Trojanowski, Hermann J.
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Clara Withers Berryhill (1939- ) graduated in 1962 from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with a degree in mathematics. After graduating, she taught in Washington, DC and then worked as a systems engineer at IBM, as a computer programmer at Goddard Space Flight Center, and as a financial programmer at Howard University in Washington, DC. Berryhill retired as the bursar from Howard University and then worked for a computer company called Software in Chicago, Illinois. Currently she is involved with community work and several local bridge clubs in the Washington, DC area. Berryhill discusses growing up in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina; the importance of education in her family; and her high school physics teacher and mentor Julian Powell who helped her prepare to attend the historically white Woman's College. She recalls arriving on campus in 1958, being housed in Shaw Residence Hall with other black students, and meeting upperclassmen JoAnne Smart and Bettye Tillman (both Class of 1960). Berryhill vividly remembers the Ku Klux Klan throwing Molotov cocktails at her dorm's windows, participating in the 1960 Woolworth Sit-ins with Claudette Graves (Class of 1961) wearing her green Woman's College class jacket, and the lack of social life on campus. She also talks about learning to play bridge while in school and being discriminated against by her health teacher.
Related material	Print/text transcript: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ui/id/59651
Type	Sound
Original format	Interviews
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	OH002 UNCG Institutional Memory Collection
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	OH002.049.AUD
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	909040557

Oral history interview with Clara Withers Berryhill, 2013 [full audio recording]

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