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Stella Nickerson

Stella Nickerson went to Northside Elementary and Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, then spent her senior year at the new Chapel Hill High School when it opened in 1966. She later taught at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School for eighteen or nineteen years before becoming an assistant principal.

Source: Documenting the American South: Oral History Interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001 (K-0554)

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  1. Chapel Hill High School graduates its first desegregated class The class of 1967 was the first to finish at the merged Chapel Hill High School. The school board then debated the fate of the empty Lincoln building through 1969 and 1970, and voted to keep it for school use after sustained objection from Black residents to selling it. People: Robert Campbell, Stella NickersonCarolina Digital Repository: From Forgotten to Remembered, The Long Process of School Desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Prince Edward County, Virginia
  2. Stella Nickerson serves as interim principal of Frank Porter Graham Elementary After eighteen or nineteen years as a classroom teacher at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School and ten years as an assistant principal, Stella Nickerson served as interim principal in the 2000-2001 school year.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Oral History Interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001 (K-0554)

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By Stella Nickerson

Oral history interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001: interview K-0554, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Nickerson, Stella · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Stella Nickerson describes her girlhood in Chapel Hill's Black community during the years of school integration. Interviewed by Bob Gilgor in January 2001, she remembers a close neighborhood in which work, school and church were bound together, the disciplined atmosphere of the all-Black schools, and the changes integration brought as students moved from Lincoln High School to Chapel Hill High School. Runs about seventy-two minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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