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 Collene Riggsbee Rogers - On Manley Estates (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On family history (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On family history (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On plumbing (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On weekend work (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On Citibank (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On offices (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On service (clip)

 Collene Rogers - 6 to 7 (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On log cabins (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On working together (clip)

 Collene Rogers - On working together (clip)

 Mark Royster - On his family, community, and church

Rev. Mark Royster is the minister of Cedar Rock Missionary Baptist Church in New Hill, NC. He has spent decades working as a banker (VP of SunTrust), minister, school board member (leader of the Blue Ribbon Task Force), and community developer and activist in Orange County, and has strong ties to…

 Mark Royster - On his family, education, and school integration

This interview begins with the background of Mark Royster. Royster grew up on his father’s farm in Granville County which is north of Durham County. His father’s farm was government subsidized. He was the youngest of twelve children. His sister is the eldest and would be 100 years old at the time of…

 Dorcas Saunders - On moving to Chapel Hill, segregation, family, and her childhood

"I watched her. I watched her wash linen and dry it, make up the beds and everything. And I mean that stuck in my mind because I did not know she did that kind of work. I just knew she put on a uniform and she left. But I never knew what the uniform was for or what it meant or anything. - Dorcas…

 Junius Scales - On race in Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the 1930s and anti-racist organizing in the 1940s

Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.

 Judge Beverly Scarlett - On education

 Mary Scroggs - On her time serving on the school board and integration

“We don’t have integration, we are desegregated, but aren’t integrated yet. I don’t know if we’ll ever be. We get closer, but it’s a slow process, but I felt very strongly that we needed to do that.” - Mary Scroggs Mary Scroggs grew up and attended high school in Nebraska and worked as a chemist for…

 Harvey Segal - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.

 Clementine Self - On her childhood, civil rights, education, and school integration

“I was going for my education, I was really going to make a statement that I’ve integrated this school–or desegregated, it was never integrated–desegregated the school. That was my goal.” - Clementine Self Clementine Self is a former student of Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses…

 Clementine Self - On her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement (clip)

 Clementine Self - On integration's impact on her attending Chapel Hill High School (clip)

 Clementine Self - on Lincoln High vs. Chapel Hill High (clip)

 Clementine Self - on student segregation at Chapel Hill High (clip)

Clementine Self (CS): I didn’t feel... Bob Gilgor (BG): Did your grades change between Lincoln and Chapel Hill High? CS: Um, in Math and French. BG: But the other classes stayed about the same. So you didn’t feel fearful about raising your hand in class and offering an answer to a question? CS: Not…