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Ms. Keith later went on to work as a police… Keith Edwards More to explore Civil Rights Story Circle - On Carrboro (clip) Civil Rights Story Circle - On Carrboro (clip) Civil Rights Story Circle - On treatment in jail (clip) Civil Rights Story Circle - On treatment in jail (clip) Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On Civil Rights protests (clip) Keith Edwards: Yeah, 1966 when they fully integrated. Cause I went there in the seventh grade, and I was just eleven years old. We went on Franklin Street. Carol Brooks: See that was back in ’64, in ’63…That’s when we were cheerleaders for Lincoln High School. Patricia Atwater, Evelyn Walker, and… Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On Civil Rights protests (clip) Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the mood at Civil Rights marches (clip) Ben Barge: Do you remember what it felt like, being in the march? Carol Brooks: Well like I told you, it felt… wonderful, it was exciting, new, you know, trying to help integrate, want to be in the front []. Because I remember the bus station, you know, they had the colored, the white, you weren’t… Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the mood at Civil Rights marches (clip) Poem on Northside by Jasmine (Juice) Farmer I never truly understood the meaning of community until I witnessed The Northside.I knew the power of a village and the power of prayer,But I had never been a part of a community more powerful, more stronger, & a place that seeped resilience more than the northside.I only got to experience the… Poem on Northside by Jasmine (Juice) Farmer Keith Edwards and Barbara Ross This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives and struggle of various members of the Northside community: a historically black and primarily residential neighborhood located immediately northwest of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and… Keith Edwards and Barbara Ross Linda Brown, Keith Edwards, and James Foushee Linda Brown, Keith Edwards, and James Foushee Keith Edwards Keith Edwards Marian Phillips, William Carter, and Keith Edwards Marian Phillips, William Carter, and Keith Edwards Keith Edwards - On race in Chapel Hill compared to Carrboro 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… Keith Edwards - On race in Chapel Hill compared to Carrboro 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… Civil Rights Story Circle - On their experiences in Chapel Hill in the 1960s Katie Mimmack’s visual interpretation of Keith Edward’s oral history. Katie Mimmack’s visual interpretation of Keith Edward’s oral history. Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement Edwards discusses her life in Carrboro and how she felt safe within the Black community but unsafe within the city of Carrboro as a whole. She recounts incidents of violence, Ku Klux Klan activity and police intimidation in the 1930s and 1950s. She moved to Chapel Hill to be provided a different,… Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement Keith Edwards - On the future of Northside and the impact of the Jackson Center Keith Edwards discusses the impact the Jackson Center and student organizations on the Northside community as well as the challenges posed by ongoing gentrification of the neighborhood brought about by the conversion of single family homes into high occupancy student accommodation. Edwards expresses… Keith Edwards - On the future of Northside and the impact of the Jackson Center Keith Edwards - On the importance of food “Sundays were always a special day. That whole day was made into just like a holiday. - Keith Edwards This interview includes Keith Edwards’s viewpoint on the importance of food in the home and in the community. She recalls specific recipes in the interview. Edwards was born and raised in Carrboro… Keith Edwards - On the importance of food Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside Keith Edwards has lived at the same address on McDade St. in Northside since she was born but now resides in a different house, built with support from a development grant that Chapel Hill received in the early 1970s. She became the first black female police officer at UNC in 1974 and later won a… Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill The interviewees provide an overview of the Chapel Hill Civil Rights Movement. They specifically note the emotion of CRM marches of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham in 1963. They speak on Watt’s Hotel discrimination and Civil Rights leadership in the area, especially of the friendly Pottersfield… Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill Northside News Volume II, Edition 5 Northside News Volume II, Edition 5 Northside News Volume II, Edition 4 Northside News Volume II, Edition 4 Back to all images
