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"A lot of times you have to just listen--and be a listener."

Mr. Robert Revels

Meet the people who built the stone walls that surround the University, led movements for fair labor and housing across Chapel Hill/Carrboro, and fought for the freedom of all Black Americans.

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Robert Smith

"You were in the neighborhood, so sure, you always felt like somebody was sort of looking after you. You were basically in somebody else's yard." - Robert Smith

William Smith

"I’m not a book person […] I like to build things, and then brag about it." - William Smith

Fannie Snipes

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Stephanie Soulama

Clifton Stone

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Ted Stone

"If this [the freedom movement] is gonna work, somebody has to be the strong one, and it's gonna have to be you. ‘Cause we've struggled too hard to get you into this position and then, after listening to speeches from Dr. King about how to survive it without violence: I just sucked I up and kept…

Esther Tate

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Prince Taylor

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Rodney Taylor

Makla Thompson

Tony Thompson

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Robyn Tolliver

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Virginia Tolliver

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Brian Toomey

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Stanley Vickers

"You didn't buck the system. White folks had their place, Black folks had their place, and fighting with them was just not the thing you do. You don't attack the king's kids." - Stanley Vickers

Antonio Vinson

"It takes a strong neighborhood to build a town. You’ve got to take it one neighborhood at a time. And I see that happening around here." - Antonio Vinson

James "Jim" Wallace

Jim Wallace was a journalism student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and a photographer for the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper. In the early 1960s the newspaper decided to cover the emerging civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, and over the course of several years,…

Gloria Warren

"I didn’t feel that we were poor -- a lot of black people didn’t find that out until the War on Poverty – but during the time that I was growing up I didn’t feel that we were poor because we always had plenty to eat, we had clothes to wear, we could go to school, we could participate in things in…

Albert Washington

"[My son] went in the Navy first, and when he came out of the Navy, he went to work for us. And I would put him on the hardest thing on the job, and that’s why he’s such a brick mason, such a good mason. Every corner or curve that I had, I would put him on." - Albert Washington

Juanita Washington

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Charles Weaver

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Clayton Weaver

"If we gotta give up something, lets keep some history somewhere." - Clayton Weaver

James Weaver

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Sherdenia Weaver