Clayton briefly compares her experiences at North Durham in the early 1970s to those she had at Fayetteville Street School during the mid-1970s. According to Clayton, by the time she began to work at the Fayetteville Street School, white flight from the city had begun to impact the effectiveness of efforts to integrate the schools. Reflecting on her nearly thirty years of teaching in Durham schools, from 1970 to the time of the interview in 1998, Clayton argues that she had taught significantly more African American students than white students.