Interview with Bobby Hinkle

Partial Transcript: Give me your full name and birth date please.

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle details his family history, and his education and early life in Danville.

Keywords: Danville Schools; Hogsett Elementary; Jennie Rogers Elementary; Toliver Elementary

Subjects:

Partial Transcript: When you were, uh, in elementary school, what do you remember, even through the eighth grade, what do you remember in the community, let say, regarding the separation of races...

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle discusses playing baseball with black players.

Keywords: Babe Ruth Baseball; First Baptist Baseball team; Soul Kings

Subjects: Discrimination in sports--Danville (Ky.) Integration--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: What do you think the community attitude toward blacks were at that time and the black attitude toward whites during the 1960s and 1970s when you were growing up before high school?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle expresses the community attitude was a good relationship between the different races. He does not remember any incidents that may have occurred in the Danville area.

Keywords: racial incidents

Subjects: Race relations--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: Can you remember before 1963 if there were any blacks that went to high school while you were there? Before there was full integration?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle reflects on black classmates that may have attended school while he did. He also discusses Principal Rawlings being well respected. The overall attitude of the students, black and white, suggested they were ready to combine as schools.

Keywords: Basketball Players; Rowland Whitley

Subjects: Race relation--Danville (Ky.) School integration--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: What kind of rivalry with the old Bates School and the Danville School, basketball; football?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle discusses the sports and players involved during high school. He reflects about playing baseball and how he felt a coach favored a "colored" teammate.

Keywords: Bates School; Butch Lewis; Danville School; District Tournament; John Grubbs; Lonnie Johnson; Ronald Reams

Subjects: Discrimination in sports--Danville (Ky.) Race relations--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: What about in the classroom? Any, uh any of the teachers, how did they react to it?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle reflects on black teachers in his school. He remembers one female black teacher, Ms. Bowling. He does not recall male black teachers nor does he know why there were none in his school. Hinkle feels the social relationship with students was a little worse after integration to the best of his memory. Discussion about Principal Rawlings is discussed again.

Keywords: Black male teachers; Ms. Bowling

Subjects: Teachers--Integration--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: When I came in 1970...

Segment Synopsis: The interviewer discusses sports in the Danville schools and the lack of support from the community. Hinkle's opinion on the community support is due to the basketball program not being as strong as it had been.

Keywords: basketball program; Jerry Coy; Joey Frankle; Mo Hawkins; Ray Rim

Subjects: Race relations--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: What about since driving a bus?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle describes his bus route and the behavior of the children, whether black or white.

Keywords: Clover Hill; Heather Hill; Powell heights

Subjects: Bus driving (Ky.) Race relations--Danville (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: Any last impression you have of the situation of the 1960s?

Segment Synopsis: Hinkle feels that Danville integrated schools smoothly and discusses other incidents that may have happened in another county.

Keywords: Lynn County KY; Woodford County KY

Subjects: Race relations--Kentucky