Interview with Guy S. Potts, July 26, 1978
Project: Black People in Lexington Oral History Project
Interview Summary
The Superintendent of the Fayette County School System discusses desegregation of the schools in 1967 and the roles played by the Board of Education and the community, the busing issue, the location of new schools, and the treatment received by African American students in the school system.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Social conditions. African American teachers. African Americans--Education--Kentucky--Lexington African Americans--Education. School integration--Kentucky Busing for school integration African Americans. Potts, Guy S. Potts, Guy S.--Interviews Lexington (Ky.)--Race relations. African Americans--Segregation Discrimination in education.Interview Rights
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Potts, Guy S. Interview by Marguerite Ruttle. 26 Jul. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Potts, G.S. (1978, July 26). Interview by M. Ruttle. Black People in Lexington Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Potts, Guy S., interview by Marguerite Ruttle. July 26, 1978, Black People in Lexington Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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