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                <head>Interview with Leroy Campbell, January 4, 1991. Interview M-0007.</head>
                <byline>Conducted by Goldie F. Wells</byline>
                <note type="deposit" anchored="no">
                    <p>Transcript on deposit at The Southern Historical Collection, The Louis Round
                        Wilson Library</p>
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                    <p>Citation of this interview should be as follows: <lb/>“Interview M-0007, in
                        the Southern Oral History Program Collection #40007, <lb/>Southern
                        Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, <lb/>University of North Carolina
                        at Chapel Hill”</p>
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                <note type="copyright" anchored="no">Copyright © 2007 The University of North
                    Carolina</note>
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                <head>Abstract</head>
                <p>After traveling the world, Leroy Campbell entered the education field motivated
                    to share his experiences. He became a high school principal at the all-black
                    Unity School in Iredell County, North Carolina, in the mid-1960s. In this
                    interview, he responds to the interviewers' checklist of questions and offers
                    his thoughts on the effects of desegregation on Iredell schools. Understaffed
                    and underfunded, Campbell found support in a cohesive black community and a
                    relationship with a county official who provided him with new school buses to
                    drive the convoluted routes necessary to maintain segregation. The core of this
                    interview may be Campbell's description of the black community's anxieties about
                    desegregation, including the fear that the process would splinter the community
                    and affect the quality of education. Their fears were well-founded, and Campbell
                    ends the interview by recalling the closing of Unity School, the dispersal of
                    its students, and his departure from the profession. </p>
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                <head>Short Abstract</head>
                <p>Leroy Campbell describes his experiences as the principal of the all-black Unity
                    School in Iredell County, North Carolina.</p>
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                <head>Interview with Leroy Campbell, January 4, 1991. <lb/>Interview M-0007.
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>This is January 4, 1991, and I am in the home of Mr. Leroy Campbell in
                            Statesville, North Carolina. Mr. Campbell was a high school principal in
                            1964.</p>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I'm Leroy Campbell and I am in my own home and I am living where I was
                            living in 1964. I was a high school principal in Iredell County. I am
                            aware that this conversation is being recorded.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Mr. Campbell, I am doing some research and I'm interviewing principals
                            who were principals in high school in 1964, and principals who were
                            principals in 1989. I want you to tell me how you became a high school
                            principal.</p>
                    </sp>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>After completing my undergraduate work, and I went to A &amp; T State
                            University--I always like to say that, I was immediately drafted into
                            service and I spent from 1943, through March 1946, in the service. I
                            came out of the service and went back to school. I was certified to
                            teach but it was near the end of the year and I did not get work. In the
                            meantime I became interested in changing my certification. I was going
                            to be an English teacher but I traveled quite a bit in service and I
                            felt I would be pretty competent as a history teacher. I traveled all
                            over the United States and into Italy, North Africa, three countries in
                            North Africa, through the Panama Canal into New Guinea and the
                            Philippine Islands and back. There were many things I felt that that I
                            wanted to talk about and wanted people to know about. Especially my
                            experiences in Africa and the Far East so I went back to school after
                            history not knowing at that time what the salary was going to be
                            teaching and I came out--I did a year at Atlanta University and I went
                            back to school to become a principal. When I came out of the service my
                            brother was working in a cafe out at Harmony, about 15 miles from here.
                            I think he was making $143 a month. I believe that is what it was and
                            when I came out my salary was going to be $145 a month teaching with a
                            Master's degree. So I did teach that fall after completing my Master's
                            degree and taught in Winston-Salem for four years and there was an
                            increase in salary for teachers that summer of getting my degree and my
                            salary with G 3 I suppose. They gave me credit for my army time because
                            I had completed my work and was certified before I went in but anyway my
                            salary was a great big $198 teaching on the graduate level at
                            Winston-Salem that year. I immediately felt that I needed to go into
                            administration. At that time we had a child who was born, as I used to
                            tell my wife--exactly nine months after I came to Statesville. But I had
                            only a little bit of work to do to become certified as a graduate
                            person. I could not get <pb id="p2" n="2"/> a graduate certificate there
                            until I had experience in the classroom. I had to work three years
                            before I would qualify for a graduate certificate in administration or a
                            graduate certificate even in teaching then. You did not get a graduate
                            certificate even though you had a Master's degree until you had taught
                            two years at that time. That is my background.</p>
                    </sp>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>So that was your background. And when you became principal in Iredell
                            County, how did you receive that appointment?</p>
                    </sp>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>The school here wasn't built until I had graduated from--there wasn't a
                            high school here. I went to Morningside. I came from Harmony and stayed
                            with a Rickert family in Statesville and I went to high school here.
                            That is when I left home. The appointment here, Dr. Martin Pharr had
                            been principal here since the school was built. He had taught me English
                            in high school and he resigned after ten or eleven years and he was
                            leaving during the summer of my fourth year of teaching at
                            Winston-Salem. It came to my attention that the job was open. I had a
                            co-worker who wanted to be a principal and had more experience than I
                            had. While I was in Winston I wrote to Las Vegas, and to Los Angeles and
                            places like that. I had some leads on teaching positions where they were
                            paying more money. I knew that I couldn't live on what I was doing and
                            in Baltimore, Maryland too, and I told my friend about it and he came
                            over to see about it. He brought with him another friend. We all rode in
                            a car. You couldn't buy a car--you had to walk. I had bought a car and
                            we all rode everywhere together, school, work and grocery store and we
                            often played cards together and did everything together but this is kind
                            of selfish. He came for the work and was interviewed. The friend who
                            rode with him told me, Leroy, why don't you apply for it. We all had
                            gotten our Master's before we began work in Winston. I said I want to
                            teach some more. I don't think I know enough about it. He said well,
                            you've been in the army and that was training. He didn't ever say that
                            he had been over here. He did not say that the people said that if he
                            applied I knew that he would get the job and I was not interested but
                            then I was in summer school that summer and I got my principal's
                            certificate. I drove back and forth to Winston-Salem to A &amp; T
                            and got my principal's certificate. When I got the letter saying that I
                            had gotten my principal's certificate they had not hired the person. I
                            came over without an appointment for an interview. I just drove over.
                            They had employed a new superintendent in Iredell County. They were
                            consolidating several small schools in Iredell County, one teacher
                            schools or two teacher schools and the superintendent was new and he
                            talked with me and he said, are you from here? Well, do you know where
                            these schools are? I said yes, and he said, well you fill out an
                            application while you are here and I did and we got a map down and
                            started looking at it. We got to be friends, I guess like you and I are
                            friends and I went on <pb id="p3" n="3"/> back and I told my wife. You
                            aren't interested in me and my work. She said, I don't want to go to
                            Statesville. She is from Hamlet. A few days later the Board of Education
                            met and I was elected the principal of the school. I had never been in
                            the school and I had never been on a bus and I had nine buses running
                            all over town. That is how I became a principal.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>And because they were pulling in the one and two teacher schools, is that
                            how you got the name Unity School?</p>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>It already had that name but the high school was already bringing
                            students from all those feeder schools anyway so all those schools that
                            I'm talking about the small elementary schools were consolidated into
                            schools that had more than seven teachers so they would have a certified
                            principal but the elementary schools were made into a certified school
                            so they could have a non-teaching principal. High school students were
                            already coming in but there was an elementary school on this site that
                            accommodated the people in this community.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Tell me about Unity School. Tell me about the composition of the school
                            and the number of people that you had to supervise and then I have some
                            areas that I want you to address but just give me something about the
                            school first.</p>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>When I came here Unity School was about 480 students and a faculty of 18
                            people. I think 7 of them were elementary teachers, 6 or 7, and others
                            were high school teachers. It was a union school, one principal over all
                            of it and of course we had none of the personnel, guidance counselors,
                            librarian, secretary or assistant principal. So the county--there was a
                            lot of potential here. There was growth, every year there was growth and
                            the school grew from 18 teachers to 36 teachers in 18 years. We averaged
                            about a teacher a year and some years two teachers. And the student body
                            grew to 990 in that length of time. We worked with our staff. When I
                            came here, I was an older person even though I was just beginning, I
                            think I was 27 years old before I worked anywhere because when I got out
                            of school I went into service and then I went back to school so I lost
                            five years after graduation from college before I did anything. I wanted
                            to hurry and get where I was going so I had a Master's before I taught a
                            day and I came back and but it seemed negligent on their part so I just
                            made every kind of effort I could with the help of the staff who were
                            wanting to do things and we added off-campus courses here from A
                            &amp; T, from Livingstone, anybody who would come here and hold
                            classes. People came from Morganton, from Mecklenburg County, Rowan
                            County. We had something going on here so we grew with pride over that
                            period of time because we thought we were way behind and we were.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>How did you supervise your personnel and how did you select your
                            teachers?</p>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>In the early fifties, Black faculties were stable. If you got a good
                            teacher, a good teacher wanted to stay. If you were doing something,
                            they would stay. I worked all those years. I only had problems with
                            recommending one person to be discharged from working with me. Several
                            people quit because if you didn't want to run fast, they said well I
                            want slow racing, they quit and went where they could work like that.
                            But I didn't have any problems with anything like that. I selected
                            usually on their academic training. I used that as the primary thing
                            because my feelings were that if a person could take the time to train
                            themselves, he had the commitment and discipline to be a good teacher.
                            My place then was to motivate and supervise and help the person become
                            what he wanted. He had already shown what he wanted to do and he was
                            trained.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Curriculum and instruction. I want to know how much input that you had in
                            the curriculum and instruction of your school.</p>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>The good thing about segregated schools is that you could assemble a good
                            staff and get a good school atmosphere and get parents working with what
                            you are doing. You could do almost anything because you had no
                            interference. I think we achieved that and I had maintained--Dr. Frank
                            Tolliver had been my high school principal. He was the principal of
                            Asheville and he became State Supervisor of Black schools. He and Sam
                            Duncan. Mr. Tolliver came to me and talked to me. Dr. Duncan came first.
                            I had known Dr. Duncan because I went to Livingstone two or three days,
                            and I had to stay with my uncle over there and I left the same year. So
                            Dr. Duncan came and talked with me. He expanded my vision of where I
                            could go or where the school could go. </p>
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                        <p>I think in one afternoon. He would never come in a hurry. He could spend
                            three hours with you and he would not come and say how are you getting
                            along and he would answer what you asked him. What about your curriculum
                            and where do you want to go? Do you have plans to get there? Will your
                            community support it? He talked with me about that. He suggested ways to
                            me that I could get more staff members that would not have learned until
                            a little while later. He said, you said that you wanted to put in
                            vocational courses because they come unallotted. You have to justify
                            that you can make up some classes in vocation and you have a good staff
                            and I had a vocational agriculture teacher and I got another vocational
                            agriculture teacher. That meant that I had two unallotted teachers. I
                            had one home economics teacher so I added to it and added courses and
                            had her to draw up the grocery sheet and draw up the spices so we had
                            four teachers that we didn't have to get from the state allotment based
                            on attendance.</p>
                        <p>That was one of the best things that happened and I think <pb id="p5"
                                n="5"/> that Dr. Duncan had led me to expand not to use--we did not
                            have football. I maybe asked him how I could avoid it because our school
                            was growing fast. We were holding students. The graduating class the
                            year I came here was 29 students and five years later it was 89 students
                            so the holding power--the students were there, we had 125 people coming
                            in the freshman class every year so we were able to do a lot of things
                            that were happening. The community was going from a farm community to a
                            public works community so the students did not have to stay out. In that
                            way we were able to expand and hold the students. We added courses in
                            math and we had extra courses other than the four courses you know
                            regular courses in English. We had extra courses in math, we had extra
                            courses in science, and we taught all the sciences every year if we
                            could find a way to do it. I had teachers who would volunteer to teach
                            French I and French II and ask to do it in the same class at the same
                            time. I had a teacher who also would teach advanced composition and the
                            lowest class we had in English in the same class at the same time. I
                            don't know where under the sun these people came from. I had a teacher
                            who taught at night free. Mrs. Harris. She taught advanced math when the
                            class got so small we could not justify with 13 or 14. If you have 13 or
                            14 somebody else has got to have those other 15 or 20 students and you
                            would have to say, we're not going to have the class for the academic
                            students who needed the advanced math and we had had it the year before.
                            She said, Mr. Campbell, if you will let me, you're up at the school all
                            the time anyway in the evenings and at night, I'll come and teach them.
                            She taught the class at night. Those were the kinds of things that were
                            going on. They were able to interpret to the young people what education
                            means. I think that was the thing. They were no better prepared than
                            other people but they had commitment of interpreting. Mrs. Bradshaw
                            taught college English and the lowest English at the same time in the
                            same class. E.V. Dickens was the science and math, particularly science
                            teacher. E.V. was the most social person you've ever seen in a
                            principal. E.V. could have more students at school after school and at
                            night than the coach could have in the gym. Teaching science--we had
                            science fairs, doing experiments. There was an atmosphere almost of a
                            revival. I don't how they mingled and how they came but it was the most
                            unusal thing that I have ever seen. I never dreamed that could happen.
                            We went through--Dr. Huffer told me that your school is not accredited
                            by the Southern Association. I said, none of the others are. I said you
                            accredit your school. They don't know what you are doing. I'll tell you
                            what you are doing. You'll get a full time librarian in the elementary
                            school and a full time librarian in the high school. He said, they'll
                            just say yes, and they are going to have to pay for it because the State
                            is not going to allot it to you. Also, they won't let your teachers
                            teach over 30 students. They'll have to. They'll be ashamed to not live
                            up to what you are doing and so we did that and we became the only
                            accredited <pb id="p6" n="6"/> school in Iredell County by the Southern
                            Association until these new high schools were built in 1966.</p>
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                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>No White schools?</p>
                    </sp>
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                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>No White schools had ever thought about it--about being accredited. The
                            state as soon as I got here then I came in 1951, and in 1957, we were
                            accredited by the Southern Association. But Dr. Duncan did this and then
                            Dr. Tolliver came at the same time and Dr. Duncan became President of
                            Livingstone. Dr. Tolliver had been my high school principal so he was my
                            buddy. He just took up right there and he said, what about you. Why
                            don't you go on and do some more work? Before 1950, or something, having
                            a doctorate didn't help you any in pay in North Carolina. They just
                            didn't pay you anymore for that in public schools because nobody was
                            doing it. I said I want you to know about my salary. He said, I'll get
                            you a scholarship with Southern, I can't remember what the name of it
                            was, in Atlanta, Southern something of schools and I took some work at
                            North Carolina Central. I can't remember the name of the scholarship but
                            the state could get about 26-28 people and I had a couple of summers
                            with that and it threw me in contact with men and women who were wanting
                            to do something so that leadership paid off in trying to get some
                            improvements for the school. I was able to use the other people. We
                            visited all the people's campuses and they showed us the things that
                            they were doing.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>What about discipline, Mr. Campbell?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I don't know. I was the luckiest man in the world. I had the best luck
                            with discipline. I think I had no problems. I really do. I was the
                            smallest guy on the hall but I didn't have problems. I don't know why we
                            didn't have problems. We had strict rules. We had no smoking for
                            teachers and no smoking for students and there was no way; we were
                            almost like the people in Turkey. If they catch you stealing, you cut
                            off a hand. We didn't have any problems. We had more children who wanted
                            to be taught. The parents supported the school. I must have been here
                            five years before I had a parent come in on me about some decisions.
                            They wanted and the children wanted to learn. I had children to break
                            rules everyday but they were worked out immediately. We had no
                            confrontations and things like that. Our students rode the buses.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>That was the next thing. Tell me about transportation?</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I always say that I am the expert in the world, my buses touched seven
                            counties, Rowan, Davie, Yadkin, Wilkes, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, maybe it
                            is just six but…</p>
                    </sp>
                    <pb id="p7" n="7"/>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>I think Iredell County touches more counties in the State than any other
                            counties. I think it is seven too. It touches so many other
                        counties.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>My buses went to every nitch in there because it was the only Black high
                            school in the county. There was a Black high school in Statesville and
                            one in Mooresville but Iredell County is more than forty miles from
                            north to south. We were lucky with that where we almost had no accidents
                            and several years we would lose only one or two bus drivers for speeding
                            and that was if you got a speeding ticket even off the bus you would
                            still lose your license. We were fortunate enough to get a State
                            citation on transportation. It was a result of the county supervisor of
                            transportation. I didn't know I was ignorant that it wasn't going to
                            work right. It was working right and I thought that was right and he
                            said no, it doesn't work right. He came to me and said you know this
                            needs to be on the record there has only been one new bus assigned to
                            the Black school in the history of this county. He told me that. You are
                            brand new and I'm going to pretend that I am new, every year you'll get
                            your quota of new buses or more as long as I am supervisor and I did. My
                            routes were longer than anyone else. But I had second-hand buses. We had
                            excellent transportation supervisors even the person who succeeded him
                            was an excellent supervisor.</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>But you were the on-site supervisor and you said you had nine buses.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I had nine buses and sometimes I had ten. I did a thing, I don't know how
                            all of this came about. I had organized a school bus driver's club and
                            they built up enough confidence in each other that they could reprimand
                            and tell on each other and tell where they were doing unsafe things. We
                            would take a field trip with the students and one of our regular things
                            we used to go to the McLean Trucking Company. At that time it was one of
                            the top four in the country. They had a safety program that was tops
                            among truckers because the truck driver was monitored every minute from
                            the time he got into the truck until he got out. They had a disk they
                            placed behind the speedometer and you couldn't get it. The mechanics
                            installed and when you got to your destination they took it out and they
                            put it with your invoices and things and if you were speeding they knew
                            it. If you parked and ate, it told how many minutes you ate. The boys
                            got the opportunity and got the feeling that they could be truck drivers
                            or they could be bus drivers in the public life and in this kind of
                            training they had knowledge and a commitment on their training and on
                            being bus drivers. I believe the mechanic told me I employed the first
                            girl driver, Black or White. Her brother tore a clutch out. If a person
                            tore a clutch out, he paid for it. That was a part of your contract. You
                            had to have a contract. There was Doris--I combined two bus trips with
                            one and she had a hundred and six miles a day. <pb id="p8" n="8"/>
                            Fifty-three in the morning and fifty-three in the afternoon driving a
                            bus. She was highly motivated, safe and everything else. She is a
                            college graduate, she has a Master's and she is a school principal and
                            her husband is a school principal and all the things like that now. But
                            that made her get there. When I came, this has nothing to do with
                            criticizing or anything, it has to do with the bad roads. Things were
                            not paved then. Many of the courses were not offered because the buses
                            came in irregularly but I said no, we can make the route and we'll open
                            at 8:40 a.m. It takes no more gas to come that hour than it does later
                            or earlier and then they would all line up at the same time. They did
                            whatever, they were highly motivated children. Bus transportation
                            required a lot of time. I got to know everybody in the county even if it
                            involved baseball and basketball too I would take a child home, you know
                            where Houstonville is, out near where Harmony is about five miles above
                            Harmony near the Yadkin County line and out there we played baseball. I
                            would drive their bus for them in the afternoon. I wanted the exemplary
                            bus driver, girl or boy and I would drive the bus free and never charged
                            them a penny and when I got back my wife or somebody would come and
                            bring my car and I would come on back home.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>What about utilization of funds? Where did you get your money to
                        operate?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I don't know. The state and county furnished a good amount of funds for
                            the instructional supplies but I don't mean that we had enough but
                            utilization was another kind of thing--planning to do it without wasting
                            was one of the things. We had one project. We had a carnival each year
                            to raise money for instructional supplies and that is all we had. The
                            county had fees for supplemental reader's fee and a paid book fee but
                            other than that we had a school calendar thing once for a project that
                            made very good money. We had the old Golden Gate jubilee sales when part
                            of them came back to Charlotte and we had them to come in and do a
                            program. We had picture money. We did not do some things. We did a
                            yearbook every other year. It was two expensive for the children to
                        own.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Clubs would raise money to keep things going. You didn't have a band, did
                            you?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Yes, we had a band. But we didn't have a football team. We had to make
                            that choice. I made that choice with Dr. Duncan. He said what is the
                            best for the children? I said, we don't have fans, we don't have a
                            stadium, we don't have uniforms. We had a very good choir. Mr. Pharr was
                            a musician himself and they always had the reputation of having an
                            outstanding choir. We always had a good choir and we had a good band. We
                            started the band out and we did it in one year. We planned it one year
                            and had it the next and the students went to the band festivals and came
                                <pb id="p9" n="9"/> back with first place things and things like
                            that. We had a good band for about 10 years, in fact it was 1959 until
                            1969.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>What about the cafeteria?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>We had one supplementary food, you know commodities. It was a bellyache,
                            if you will excuse the expression but it was a very necessary thing.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Did you have to start the cafeteria or was that already in operation?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>It was already in operation and it had a manager when I came. I had to do
                            the reports.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>I forgot to ask you when we were talking, did you receive second-hand
                            books and your chairs and desks. Were they second-hand too?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Before I came here, the school was not very old. It was about 10-11 years
                            old when I came here. Many of the desks and things were right good
                            desks. The elementary desks were old desks because the elementary school
                            had been here for fifty years but if I had to add a teacher I got desks.
                            I had a desk furnisher in the county. In the first place, Mr. Helter
                            stayed here three years, and during the time we were getting it
                            accredited they fired Mr. Helter, because he enjoyed our working and the
                            others were fussing and the longer they fussed I got the till. They had
                            money they didn't spend every year so they put it in escrow. So I
                            escrowed it out but Mr. Cradle who was a retired person from Oxford I
                            think, he came here as an interim superintendent and he said to my face.
                            I will get you two classrooms of new desks today. He was supportive of
                            the educational program. They were going through what we are going
                            through now, trying to merge, trying to consolidate. We had as much
                            trouble consolidating the high schools, we had seven White high schools
                            in the county where we have three now, and they had about 100 people in
                            each one or 150 in each high school so Iredell County is not just now
                            getting back we've been back.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>So it was just as much trouble trying to pull those communities together
                            as we are having now trying to pull Iredell and Statesville
                        together.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>More, we had at least two injunctions that prevented us from doing it. So
                            I didn't have any problem because I had a good superintendent.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>That was good. You had a good working relationship because the
                            superintendent saw you were about something.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>He said that to me. I took it as though he meant it.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <pb id="p10" n="10"/>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Buildings and grounds. Did you have to oversee that too?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Yes, but that was a big program. The campus here laid pretty well. It was
                            a pretty campus and had a lot of big trees in it and we never were
                            bothered with drainage or anything like that and we had plenty of space
                            in the back and we had a gym. We didn't have too much trouble with that.
                            After five or six years--I worked for the county in the summer,
                            sometimes I painted for them in the summer and I found out what was
                            going on everywhere because I had a pass key I went in everywhere, the
                            principal's office and everywhere. I learned that way.</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Did you learn separate but not equal?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Yes, there were some things like that. But we were pretty backward. They
                            didn't have much either. Half the time that we integrated Troutman High
                            School was the only high school that competed with Unity's high school
                            program and the courses had equipment and things like that. Now when
                            they needed to do something their community was more affluent than ours.
                            They could pull in if they were skillful in getting people to do things
                            for them. I was there--in 1954, we bought a brand new activity bus. We
                            had five schools in the county and we coordinated the five Black
                            elementary schools with the high schools and we raised the money
                            ourselves and bought a brand new bus. I went out and put the first miles
                            on it and drove it back. Five years later, the time we wore out two sets
                            of tires we bought another brand new bus but we did it with the
                            community doing it--the PTA or the activities there. Now the industries
                            backed us up. The band was doing good things then and people would give
                            us money when we participated and things like that.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>What was the relationship of the school to the community?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>It was pretty much of a community school. We had to do a survey when we
                            were doing the Southern Association to find out who you were and who did
                            you serve and what we tried to do for them but twenty-six churches in
                            the community that year that we identified our students attended. We in
                            some way or other would do something in the community. The choir would
                            do public appearances and things like that.</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>How much administrative power and control did you have over your school
                            site and your responsibilities?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>It had some challenges at times but being principal serves you well if
                            you are sincere. A person who wanted to maintain and was consistent and
                            was good for the community. I had a parent with a tractor and who ran
                            around <pb id="p11" n="11"/> on the grounds and he was playing with
                            students and I called the cops and they put him in jail because if a
                            child had fallen the tractor would have run over him and the same thing
                            with a student. A student threatened a teacher after school and he could
                            not come on the campus ever.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>So you were a powerful man at that school.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Well, they supported me--I said what do you want me to do, so he didn't
                            come and the parents didn't even get after him. After the boy stayed out
                            a year, he came back and graduated and never had one more problem with
                            him.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>And the parents accepted your decision?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Well, most of the time it was the parent's decision because I would say,
                            what would you do? If you had other children and you had to look out for
                            their safety, welfare and education and getting them back home what
                            would you do in circumstances like this. These are things that we can
                            do. How do you feel about this? They felt that they had made the
                            decision. I spanked in high school even people who had been to the army.
                            If you break a rule, you take the punishment. I don't want to spank
                            anybody. I don't want to believe in that but it gives you two ways to do
                            it. Go home and stay or your teacher can spank you. A woman who had to
                            spank a man who had been to the army said I can't spank him--he has been
                            to the army but he said, I came back because I know I want to be in
                            school. I want you to whip me so I can go back to class. I don't want to
                            go home. This is the most ridiculous thing in the world. So those kinds
                            of things almost never happen. Mr. Pharr was a powerful person before
                            me. He left the community in good shape to work with. He visited with
                            the parents a lot. They knew exactly what was going on. He left his good
                            will with me. I had been one of his students at Morningside. He taught
                            English at Morningside and so he wanted me to succeed so I was a lucky
                            man. Nobody has been as lucky as I've been, not at work.</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>How did the desegregation of schools affect your role as principal?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Well, we knew it was going to happen. There was a running battle almost
                            like Romel in North Africa. No community wanted to desegregate. The
                            communities were unable to prepare for desegregation and they didn't.
                            Our community did nothing to prepare for desegregation. The law said
                            there will be no more separate schools but there was no preparation
                            made. Each year they said that you could have an assignment you know and
                            they would just assign the least number they could. That was always
                            traumatic to the staff. There was no preparation for it. Dr. Newsome
                            will be buried tomorrow. He was the only person to be employed and that
                            was after we had Title I to hold county-wide workshops in <pb id="p12"
                                n="12"/> desegregation. So we didn't have preparation for it. Now it
                            affected me because the trend was that almost all schools that were
                            segregated you took from the Black schools and added to the White
                            schools. So we knew that the staffing was going to be changed and the
                            schools couldn't be built for the convenience of the Black population
                            because the population was so scattered as a result and many of them
                            were inferior in construction so most of them looked forward to--like I
                            said I will be very glad when people will do fair things to people and
                            with people. When we looked forward to desegregation we were not
                            ignorant. We knew that we were going to pay a price and we had workshops
                            on the price that we were going to have to pay. We were going to be out
                            of field and we were not going to get the support and we were going to
                            be assigned and have students and parents that were not going to be easy
                            to work with. The parents were going to come in and fuss with the
                            principals and say that they weren't going to have a Black person to
                            teach their children and they did all those kinds of things to the
                            teachers. And then in 1969, when almost everybody had to do it then the
                            entire high school left and was assigned to all the high schools in the
                            county so the school was left then with 13-14 teachers at the elementary
                            school for one year. That is when East Iredell was built. I went from a
                            36 teacher school to a 14 teacher school at an elementary school.</p>
                    </sp>
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                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>How long did you stay at that school?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>One year and then it was closed and a year or so later it was used as a
                            Vocational Center in Wilkes County. Then I became general supervisor of
                            a county school. I worked at that a year. Then I became Title I director
                            for two more years and I did not function well as a supervisor. They
                            didn't want supervisors then. Principals did not want supervisors. They
                            didn't want Black ones or White ones. I was a Black and with principals
                            my relationship had been pretty well because I had been a principal and
                            most principals were men then. I don't think they had women principals
                            then. Yes, Miss Mary Morrison was a principal. But our school had sued
                            the school board to keep the school and then I became tarnished the year
                            before that. Morningside sued also. Morningside was successful in their
                            suit because their suit was heard before President Reagan--before the
                            Republicans got it and mine was heard four days later and the new
                            administration so our school was closed.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Did you enjoy your job and why?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I guess I enjoyed it. I didn't ever take any time off. I didn't even take
                            my vacation time in the summer. I wanted to be a teacher. I would have
                            liked to have never been an administrator. I would have liked to have
                            been a teacher all the time but I just couldn't quite make it with the
                            money and I was late starting and I wanted--you know how <pb id="p13"
                                n="13"/> they use supervisors, don't you?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Yes I do. I understand.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I wanted to learn a lot. I went to a six months school when I was going
                            to school in the country and I wanted to go to school all my life but I
                            never did have the opportunity. We farmed. We did big
                            farming--twenty-five or thirty bales of cotton so two months in the fall
                            I didn't go to school much. I wanted to be a school teacher. I think I
                            had reasonable success as a teacher and I never did lose the enthusiasm.
                            When I quit I could have worked another ten years just as easy. I don't
                            put all the fault on the system. I take my share. I think that helped me
                            just to say I believe if I work harder I'll do better. If I work hard
                            the students will recognize it and they will do better. I didn't have
                            many confrontations with staff. I tried to be at the school before
                            anybody got there and I tried to stay until everybody left. I would do
                            that at church. I don't want it to come over to people that I'm cutting
                            the job short and if people believe in you they wouldn't let you fail
                            for anything. You can't fail.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>That's right. Now what do you consider your major problem in the
                            principalship?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Later on when I was able to get everything that I wanted I think my major
                            problem is that we didn't have the equipment and material and time and
                            staff. We needed secretaries, needed librarians, we needed guidance
                            counselors needed secretaries and things like that. Working the problems
                            out that we help children. It took so much time for children during the
                            day or during the time of teaching that you would take from the process
                            of learning. That hurt more than anything else. I would work at night. I
                            wouldn't do my work at school. I would do my paperwork here at my house
                            or that evening or my wife and my children would help me. Every book, I
                            handled everything with my own hands or my children and they were
                            willing to go up there and help me.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>So it was a family affair? So they loved school too. What was the most
                            rewarding or what do you consider the most rewarding thing about the
                            principalship?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I enjoyed all of it. I believe that I feel that the number of boys and
                            girls and the quality of the boys and girls advancement in success. In
                            1964 or 1967, we did many things that other people learned to do after I
                            quit being principal. All of our boys and girls--I've been doing PSAT
                            for thirty years. First time I heard it we did it. If we couldn't do it
                            here, we'd get on a bus and we'd go to Charlotte and we had boys and
                            girls who could go to any school in the United States and students who
                            could go to Harvard or Yale, who qualified for Duke scholarships and <pb
                                id="p14" n="14"/> things like that <gap reason="unknown"/> and we'de
                            say they can't do it, but they'de do it anyway. That to me, being a part
                            of the children's success was what I felt that the success of the
                            student was the high point in my life associating myself with education
                            is to see them or continue to help them.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Do you see many of your students now?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Oh yes. Constantly, always writing and sometimes I write recommendations
                            for them now and there is always someone coming in.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Well, when you were principal back in 1964, there were over 200 Black
                            high school principals. When I started to do this research I wrote to
                            Raleigh last year and asked them to send me a list of Black principals.
                            They sent me 41 names and I found out that some of them are not
                            principals of high schools that graduate students. Some of them are
                            principals of alternative schools so there were less than 40 that were
                            in the state in 1989. If you had to give some advice to a Black person
                            who was aspiring to be a principal of a high school, what kind of advice
                            would you give?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I'm not in a position to give advice now. I've been away from high school
                            principalship for twenty years and it has completely changed. The
                            product is expected to change--the product that you get and the product
                            that you work with and I think I am a stranger to the high school
                            student. Nine years ago I was still an elementary principal but I was
                            away from students for five years for a break and when I went back they
                            were not the same. They were like a new world. I don't have any advice
                            to give anyone.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Mr. Campbell, is there anything else that you want to say?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I commend you for undertaking this. It is an extension of me. I did this
                            booklet <hi rend="i">Negro School Principals in Selected Cities of the
                                Public Schools of North Carolina</hi>.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>So this is what you did for your thesis?</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>For my six year research. So I just took schools right around here. I
                            took Iredell, Rowan, Davie, Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Forsyth Counties
                            for the six year thing. It is not what I set out to do. I set out to do
                            something else and my school was going to close. I didn't do anything
                            about it and I had done everything except research and I couldn't finish
                            the research because the high school was breaking up. Dr. Moore who
                            looked through the things at North Carolina Central and saw that my name
                            was there and he got in touch with me and asked me to come back and
                            maybe I could finish my work. I was the last person to get my degree <pb
                                id="p15" n="15"/> down there. The six year certificate.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>There might be something here that I can use, Mr. Campbell.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>The statistical part has to do with the dropoff and the block of time
                            that I used. I used a small block of time.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>Yes, you used from 1965-1970. I have in my literature review I have to
                            give some background on what did happen to the principals and what
                            happened to the schools.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>I set out to do something else and decided to do that and these are
                            people that I interviewed--Preston Allison at Charlotte-Mecklenburg,
                            Boyd Bailey was Assistant Superintendent, Robert Brow was the principal
                            at Winston-Salem/Forsyth, W.O.T. Fleming, you may know him.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>I have been trying to get up with this man.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>He is retired and he is a very busy person. He is the head of the
                            Rowan/Iredell County Credit Union. Owen Freeman, Assistant
                            Superintendent of schools in Charlotte. He is a Black guy. George Knox,
                            he is a County Commissioner. C.H. Lindler, he was Assistant
                            Superintendent here, R.J. McLelland who is a Black guy who is a
                            principal of a school. There is Miss Mary Morrison who is a Black person
                            here, Mr. Peterson and Raymond Sarbar, he was Assistant Superintendent
                            in Winston-Salem. I used those persons when I was doing mine and you and
                            I did some of the same kinds of things. I was trying to find a field. It
                            was something I needed to get for me. There was something I needed to
                            know something about what was going on. I didn't do a good job because I
                            was disgusted. That was my low point in my life.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>You were seeing so much of being lost and you were frustrated. I wanted
                            to see if principals like you from 1964, and ones from 1989, still
                            viewed the principalship with the same perceptions of the role and I had
                            thought---</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk1">
                        <speaker n="1">LEROY CAMPBELL:</speaker>
                        <p>Personally, if I were to say what I feel--people would say, the fool is
                            crazy. I would never have had the problems that I see people have. But I
                            know that I couldn't have lived in the times--I couldn't have brought
                            that time.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <sp who="spk2">
                        <speaker n="2">GOLDIE F. WELLS:</speaker>
                        <p>I'm so pleased that you have shared with me today. This interview has
                            been quite informative and when I finish the research, I'll give you a
                            copy of it but I'm going to give you a transcribed copy of this
                            interview so you can look over it and see if there is anything that you
                            think should be deleted but when I finish I'll give you a copy of my
                            research.</p>
                    </sp>
                    <p>
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                            <p>END OF INTERVIEW</p>
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