"Desegregating Cary" by Peggy Van Scoyoc

The book contains the stories and memories of forty-three people, covering a time span of seventy years. Through oral history interviews, these people describe in vivid detail what living in a small town in rural North Carolina was like under Jim Crow, and through the Civil Rights movement that desegregated the schools. The small, rural town of Cary, North Carolina led the way for Wake County, North Carolina and then the entire South to begin desegregation in the schools.