I listened to the Mildred Oakley Page interview. Mildred was born August 21, 1924 in Berea, North Carolina. She was interview in Durham, North Carolina where she lived and worked as a teacher in the department of health education at North Carolina Central. How Mildred and her family approached life and white people surprised me the most. On page 7 of the transcript, Mildred discussed how her father was a successful farmer who owned his own track of land. She states that they “lived in a predominantly white community They were very good neighbors, very good friends.” This quotes depicts that Mildred and her family were not against associating with white people despite their past histories. On page 19 of the transcript she explains how no one
