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Cynthia 'Cindy' Farrell Inman (1947- ) graduated from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1969, majoring in economics and business administration. After graduating, she was with Mobil Oil Corporation as an accounting supervisor/manager for twenty-seven years. Currently, Inman is in the network marketing field. Inman talks about growing up in segregated Raleigh, North Carolina, being told by her mother that she was as good as everybody else, being involved with civil rights marches in Raleigh when she was thirteen or fourteen years old, and her father's determination to send all his children to college. She recalls the chaos on her first day at UNCG when a light-skinned African American student had been assigned to the same room as two white student, receiving a lower grade than she deserved from her health teach, and her reaction when one of her economics professors said in class 'We all know that blacks are mentally inferior to whites.' Inman remembers dorm life, dining hall food, the few black men on campus in the late 1960s, having a social life at North Carolina A&T State University, the hostility of the Bennett College girls toward black UNCG girls, and her reactions to the various assassinations that occurred in the 1960s.