Skip to main content
Digital Collections
Home
Explore
UNC Greensboro History
Greensboro History
Manuscripts and Special Collections
Performing Arts
Women Veterans Historical Project
Show Me Everything!
Featured Projects
Civil Rights Greensboro
Good Medicine: Greensboro's Hospitals and Healers
N.C. Runaway Slave Advertisements
Textiles, Teachers, and Troops
About Us
Contact Us
Copyright and Reproduction
Digitization Unit
Digital Collections Blog
UNC Greensboro University Libaries
Take a Survey
Community Partners
Bennett College
Cone Health Medical Library
Duke University
Greensboro College
Greensboro History Museum
Greensboro Public Library
Guilford College
Hayes-Taylor YMCA
NC A&T State University
University Archives Collections
Log in
|
Favorites
|
Help
Search
Advanced Search
Find results with:
error div
Add another field
Searching collections:
UNC Greensboro University Archives
Add or remove collections
Home
UNCG University Archives
Oral history interview with Linda Scales Dark, 2012 [full audio recording]
Reference URL
Share
Save to favorites
Remove from favorites
To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document
To embed this object, paste this HTML in website
Oral history interview with Linda Scales Dark, 2012 [full audio recording]
View Description
Download
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
Full Size
Full Resolution
Print
Link
Text
Access this item.
Page/Item Description
Title
Oral
history
interview
with
Linda
Scales
Dark
,
2012
[full
audio
recording]
Date
2012-02-15
Creator
Dark, Linda Scales
Contributors
Trojanowski, Hermann J.
Subject headings
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
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.
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.
This
item
is
a
time-coded
audio
transcript.
A
full-text
,
printable
transcript
of this
interview
is
available
at
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/OralHisCo/id/7072
Related material
Print/text transcript:
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ui/id/59637
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
OH002.035.AUD
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number
905021633
you wish to report:
Your comment:
Your Name:
...
Back to top
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Select All Collections
A
American Publishers Trade Bindings
Anna Gove Collections
C
Cello Music Collections
Civil Rights Greensboro
Community Collections
Composer Collections
Cone Health Collections
G
Greensboro, 1880-1945
Greensboro, 1945-present
Greensboro and Triad Area City Directories
Greensboro Historical Newspapers
Greensboro Medical History
H
Hansen Performing Arts Collection
Home Economics and Household Collection
I
I Wish to Say
N
N.C. Runaway Slave Advertisements
P
P.E. Pamphlets
U
UNC Greensboro Campus Publications
UNC Greensboro Manuscripts and Special Collections
UNC Greensboro University Archives
W
Women Veterans Historical Project
World War I Pamphlets
500
You have selected:
1
OK
Cancel