Carl Williams oral history interview, 2009 July 31
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In this oral history interview, Carl Williams discusses his educational experiences at Chalk Hill Elementary, Lakeview High School, and Allen University, graduating Allen University with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Chemistry, his career as a school teacher and basketball coach at several Columbia, South Carolina schools: Booker T. Washington High School, A.C. Flora High School, Richland Northeast High School, and Lower Richland High School, including three he led to State Championships, and some of his players who were recruited to play professional basketball in the National Basketball Association. Carl Van Williams was born in Dixiana, Lexington County, South Carolina on April 27, 1939, one of five children born to Sarah Ann and John Howard Williams. Tom Crosby interviewed Carl Van Williams on July 31, 2009. Interview covers Williams' education at Chalk Hill Elementary (of Lexington, S.C.) and Lakeview High School (of the town of West Columbia, S.C.) from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s and at Allen University in the early 1960s.
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Crosby, Tom, 1940- (interviewer)South Caroliniana Library. Office of Oral History
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