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Title
Oral
history
interview
with
Sheila
Cunningham
Sims
,
2012
[full
audio
recording]
Date
2012-04-12
Creator
Sims, Sheila Cunningham
Contributors
Trojanowski, Hermann J.
Subject headings
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
Sheila
Cunningham
Sims
(1941-
)
graduated
in
1962
with a
degree
in
primary
education
from
Woman's
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
,
now
The
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro.
After
graduation
, she
taught
for
two
years
in
Greensboro
and then
moved
to
Oakland
,
California
,
where
she
taught
school.
After
many
years
as a
curriculum
teacher
, she
retired
and
is
currently
an
education
consultant.
Sims
discusses
the
importance
of
education
in her
family
;
growing
up
in
segregated
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
; her
feelings
about
having
to
sit
in the
segregated
balcony
at the
Carolina
Theater
; and the
1960
Greensboro
Sit-ins.
She also
recalls
attending
Spelman
College
in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
, for
two
years
;
being
apprehensive
about
transferring
to a
large
all-white
college
;
living
at
home
and
taking
the
bus
to
classes
each
day
;
campus
traditions
;
being
the
only
black
student
in
all
her
classes
at
Woman's
College
; and the
contrast
between
Woman's
College
and
North
Carolina
A&T
State
College
students
in the
area
of
political
activism.
Sims
talks
about
the
1960s
Civil
Rights
Movement
and its
national
leaders
such
as
Martin
Luther
King
,
Jr.
and
Julian
Bond
as
well
as
local
leader
George
Simkins
,
Jr.
She
concludes
the
interview
by
recalling
her
teaching
experience
in
Sokoto
,
Nigeria
,
during
the
1980s.
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/7077
Related material
Print/text transcript:
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ui/id/59639
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
OH002.037.AUD
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number
905021543
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