Doris Wilson - Intro (clip)
Interviewed by Will Vaughan on August 5, 2017
Doris Wilson (DW): I bought her out, and I’m still there.
Will Vaughan (WV): You’re still there now? Yeah. So, yeah, so I guess, what memories do you have from the early parts in this house that you’re in now?
DW: Well I completed my education, you wanna hear that piece? I completed my education, I went to Fort Valley State in Georgia. And I came, after I graduated, in 1961, I came back to my hometown in St. Paul’s and worked as a media specialist for seven years. And after that I went to move back up this way. That was in the early 60’s cause I completed college in ‘59. And I left St. Paul’s Public Schools, came to Vance county and Henderson and worked in Vance county into Chatham County. From Chatham County to- from Vance county to Chatham county, from Chatham County to Orange County, Chapel Hill, North Carolina right here.
WV: Yeah.
DW: In the school system I worked for seven years.
WV: And you were, at that point, were you a childhood educator?
DW: Mhmm, I worked as a media specialist at Carrboro Elementary School. And I got married, and my husband and I adopted a child.
WV: Ah, okay.
DW: And that was when I gave up the public school piece, working as a media specialist. I left and went into Head Start, it was still part of the school system. But, it was during those times that we adopted and I just took off from the public schools and worked as a family child care provider after I left Head Start.
WV: So, I want to get back to the family aspect in a minute, but working in multiple different counties in North Carolina, what was your experience, so this is fifties, early sixties-
DW: Well we didn’t have, we were not integrated for sure.
WV: Exactly.
DW: We were really segregated and that’s the piece you really want to hear about I guess.
