In this transcript of a January 30, 1990, oral history interview conducted by Kathleen Hoke with Jim Schlosser, Schlosser primarily discusses the segregated racial climate he experienced growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and later during the desegregation of local schools and businesses in the late 1960s. He also discusses his work for the Greensboro News and Record, the role of area Black Panthers and Malcolm X University, and racial aspects of local politics and education in the 1980s.