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 Allen Buansi - On New Hampshire vs. North Carolina (clip)

 Brentton Harrison - On Hargraves Center

"Come to Hargraves. Come build community either with myself or someone else. Build community because at the end of the day, community is kind of the only answer. - Brentton Harrison Brentton Harrison has been in Chapel Hill since he was nine and lived in the parsonage of St. Joseph CME Church, which…

 Civil Rights Story Circle - On their experiences in Chapel Hill in the 1960s

Freedom fighters Euyvonne Cotton, James Foushee, William Carter, Linda Brown, Keith Edwards, and Marion Phillips gathered upstairs at St. Joseph C.M.E. to talk about their experiences as young people in the freedom movement in Chapel Hill 1960-1964. Spurred by the recent publication of Courage in…

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

 David Caldwell Jr. - Environmental Racism (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): I could say for us, what’s happened is that… It’s nothing, you know with bad water and buzzards and stinky air, you know, what do you tell your kids? “This is going to all be yours someday? You’re going to inherit all of this, this will be yours!” It’s like, “No thank you.…

 David Caldwell Jr. - Impacts of Segregation (clip)

Blanche Brown (BB): So growing up during the Civil Rights Movement and during such a time of transition, what do you see are the, what are the main differences that you experienced through that transition if any? David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Oh gosh, I guess you're talking about the transition through…

 David Caldwell Jr. - On Persisting Racism (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): So, you know we’ve made our contributions. My brothers and I, we’ve put in, my father, we’ve put in way over a hundred years in law enforcement and close to forty years in the military. So, how much more can a family give? That’s what we’ve done and that’s not counting my…

 David Caldwell Jr. - The Chapel Hill Riot (clip)

Blanche Brown (BB): So, are there any further questions you have for me or things I didn’t ask you that you wanted me to ask or stories you want to share. David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): No, I mean could go on for days and days. When you get a larger group of everybody from that time together and they…

 David Mason, Jr. - on attitudes in Chapel Hill (clip)

 Dennis Farrington - On his family, education, and work experiences

Dennis Farrington spent the first part of his life in the Northside area of Chapel Hill before moving to a home off of NC Hwy 54, and he has deep roots in Chatham County, North Carolina. He attended Chapel Hill High School after it was newly integrated. He spent most of his working career at UNC…

 Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee - On growing up in Chapel Hill, segregation, and his work experiences

Donny ‘Hollywood’ Riggsbee, resident of Chapel Hill, gives his biography during his time in in the town. He describes his youth, growing with 10 siblings, how his mother worked in a kitchen and how the kids worked while growing up. He talks about racial experiences in the form of his employer (Big…

 Dr. Whitney Robinson Rivers - On healthcare and Northside

"If people from the Jackson Center ever had a question or even other neighbors would text me with questions, I was always really glad to help." - Dr. Whitney Robinson Rivers Dr. Whitney Robinson Rivers speaks about her experiences living in Northside, primarily relating to the topics of healthcare…

 Edric Cotton - On civil rights and education

"Because we can change these things, and that’s why we were marching..." - Edric Cotton This interview is primarily concerned with political figures (Dr. MLK, Jr, Dr. Benjamin Mays, Muhammad Ali, Mahatma Gandhi, and George Washington Carver) and personal spheres of influence such as his mother,…

 Edwin Caldwell, Jr. - On his family history, activism, and career

"So Chapel Hill, whatever you want to believe, wasn’t as progressive as some people may think." - Edwin Caldwell, Jr. This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives of various members of the Northside community. In this 2-part interview, Edwin Caldwell,…

 Emily Banks - On her family, immigration, and faith

This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series.  Emily Banks, a current member and leader of St. Joseph CME Church, was born in 1946 in New York and migrated south to North Carolina in 1970.  She has spent the last few decades in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  She…

 Emma Fowler - On growing up in Chapel Hill and Northside

This interview provides into Fowler's life growing up in Chapel Hill, her church attendance, and her education at Northside Elementary School. She goes into the neighborhood and family dynamics as well. She shares that her father worked for UNC. She spends her leisure time playing music and learning…

 Eugene Farrar - On political organizing and community activism

"It’s good to be on the register as being a registered voter, but your vote only counts when you go out and participate and pull the levers in the voting booths, because voting speaks to power. - Eugene Farrar In this interview, Eugene Farrar reminisces on his time as a political organizer and…

 Jacob Pursel - On education

"I think a lot of [being an ally to black educators] is leaning on the fact that I am a white educator and that I am learning and that knowing that learning is a process. Knowing that I don’t know everything, knowing that I will make mistakes and will continue making mistakes, but knowing that I…

 Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside

"...you can have the biggest, beautiful house or the smallest house but if it don’t have the elements to make it a home, it’s just not a home. It’s just a house." - Keith Edwards Keith Edwards has lived at the same address on McDade St. in Northside since she was born but now resides in a different…

 Mae McLendon - On motherhood and attending UNC

“I was a member of the Black Student Movement. It was like a year old when I got there so I was very active in that. I was the off-campus minister. We would go to the football games and not stand for the national anthem…as a form of protest.” - Mae McLendon In this interview, Mae McLendon sits down…

 Nate Davis - On his childhood, education, and school integration

This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…

 Nate Davis - Racialized Stigma (clip)

Nate Davis: They would come into town. They would come to Hargraves, and talk about how nice the place is. And that’s because, once they found out it’s – this is Hargraves Recreation Center, it’s in a Black neighborhood, there should be something wrong with it. There should be broken windows. There…

 Regina Merritt and Mary Cole - On land ownership, integration, and racism

“My parents always taught us you know who you are, no matter what you say to me or what you call me, I know who I am. And that stayed with me for years. Because people are going to talk about you, you cannot stop people from talking. They can say what they want to say to you, but you know who you…

 Reginald Hildebrand - Racism and Quaker School (clip)

Reginald Hildebrand (RH): In the 4th grade, go to my parents, there was a Quaker school in Atlantic City. They had a good experience, thought it was worth the investment sending me to a Quaker School in Philadelphia, they wanted to do the same there. I went there, took exams, and the head mistress…

 Sandi Abbo - On education

“I am a believer that education is essential, just like air. Just like oxygen. We have to feed our minds, and I also believe we have to feed our souls.” - Sandi Abbo This interview was a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center Education series. Ms. Abbo grew up living in Pine Knolls and Tin Top…

 Sandi Abbo - On expectations for students in school (clip)

 Sandi Abbo - On living "parallel lives" from her classmates (clip)

Sandi Abbo: “I remember being in high school. I went to high school in 1970…well, ‘69 I guess, ‘cause then after the new year it was ‘70. I was in 10th grade. When I was in high school, it was 10th, 11th, 12th. We were just excluded. We weren’t wanted, we were very clearly told ‘you don’t belong…

 Saundra Dockery - on her school experiences and mother's spirit (clip)

 Valerie P. Foushee - on her learning experiences during integration (clip)

 Virginia Medean - On Racism and a Progressive Town (clip)

Virginia Medean: That place where I went to live for a few years in Halifax County was still as segregated as ever and was a very uncomfortable place to live. As a white person, it was very uncomfortable to be around other White people there because of their racism. They have learned not to say the…

 Walter Durham - On school integration, his childhood, and race

“[Lincoln] was a school that you could go in and… no paper on the school campus. Hallway shines like new money all the time. You could drink out of the commode in the bathroom. And it was kept just that clean.” - Walter Durham Walter Durham discusses growing up as part of a large family on his…

 William Carter - On school integration and the Civil Rights Movement

"We’re the Southern part of heaven, but that’s only for white folk. That’s not for the blacks." - William Carter William Carter discusses the movement and his background. He was born in the Bronx, New York in 1949 and discusses his heritage with a grandma being a Lumbee Native American and father…