Home > Images > Mama Kat and Terry Carver Image Mama Kat and Terry Carver Can you help us caption this item? Let us know! Share on Twitter , Facebook , or by email . Citation: “Mama Kat and Terry Carver,” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/images/mama-kat-and-terry-carver. "We’re writing our own history, thank you!" Ms. Esphur Foster Want to add in? Have a different view? What do you think? Want to upload your own photos or documents? History is not the past. It’s the sense we make of the past now. Click below to RESPOND—and be part of making history today. Respond In this Image Terry Carver "We all gathered on Sundays; you couldn't do anything but visit family. There was no such thing as stores and stuff open you know, so pretty much you visited family on those days. You'd have the cousins and everybody around you, grandparents and you just kind of listened and heard what they talked… Terry Carver Katherine Council "My name is Katherine Council and everybody calls me Mama Kat for the simple reason that when I had my first grandchild I didn’t want to be called grandma because I didn’t want men to stop looking at me!" - Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Born and raised in Northside, Katherine "Mama Kat" Council… Katherine Council More to explore Terry Carver Terry Carver Linda and Terry Carver - On integration, race in Chapel Hill, and medical access The interview includes discussions about growing up in Chapel Hill during the Civil Rights era and highlights traits of early Chapel Hill life for African American families prior to integration. Both discuss the availability of medical facility access for blacks, how the community operated as a… Linda and Terry Carver - On integration, race in Chapel Hill, and medical access Katherine Council - Holiday Memories (clip) Katherine "Mama Kat" Council recalls students and neighbors at the holidays.To hear more from Katherine Council, listen to her full oral history "Katherine Council - On growing up in Chapel Hill and changes in the neighborhood." Katherine Council - Holiday Memories (clip) Katherine Council - On food, cooking, and recipes In this interview, Mama Kat, a cooking and baking extraordinaire, shares some of her kitchen expertise including tips and favorite recipes. Mama Kat learned how to cook from her parents and grandparents, and now writes down her recipes in cookbooks for others to follow. She discusses how products… Katherine Council - On food, cooking, and recipes 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 Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Mama Kat and Linda Carver Mama Kat and Linda Carver Mama Kat (Katherine Council) and Nettye Burnette Mama Kat (Katherine Council) and Nettye Burnette Katherine Council - On education, changes in the community, and racial discrimination “I really think with children, it didn’t matter. It was the adults that were having problems.” (In reference to integration) - Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Ms. Council, fondly known as Mama Kat, grew up on a farm in Chapel Hill down Jones Ferry Road and has lived in various places in the area her… Katherine Council - On education, changes in the community, and racial discrimination Katherine Council and Lillian Alston - On Heavenly Groceries, St. Joseph's Church, and the importance of volunteering This interview is a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s A Place at the Table series. Katherine Council and Lillian Alston talk about their time volunteering with Heavenly Groceries. Katherine describes the origin of the food ministry before both women discuss their ties to the community and… Katherine Council and Lillian Alston - On Heavenly Groceries, St. Joseph's Church, and the importance of volunteering Katherine Council - On her pound cake recipe In this interview, Mama Kat gives us her coveted pound cake recipe, which she knows from memory because she makes it so often. Katherine Council - On her pound cake recipe Katherine Council - On growing up in Chapel Hill and changes in the neighborhood In Molly Norwood’s interview of Katherine “Mama Kat” Council, Council begins by describing what life was like when she was growing up in Chapel Hill. She describes how open and geographically spread out the neighborhood was, how she was constantly playing with the other children in the neighborhood,… Katherine Council - On growing up in Chapel Hill and changes in the neighborhood Katherine Council - On her children and growing up outside of Carrboro In this impromptu interview done at Heavenly Groceries Food Ministry, Katherine “Mama Kat” Council tells us what it was like growing up right outside of Carrboro back in the 1930’s. She recalls how for a while her family had to use a wagon to get to Hamlet’s Chapel CME on Sundays. She also discusses… Katherine Council - On her children and growing up outside of Carrboro Katherine Council - On home, family, and changes in Chapel Hill In this interview, Katherine “Mama Kat” Council talks about home and family. She discusses her parents, including her father’s death and her mother’s garden, and she describes where she grew up in rural Chapel Hill. Growing up was very different when Mama Kat was a child; she went to work and… Katherine Council - On home, family, and changes in Chapel Hill Mama Kat on how to make her amazing pound cake Mama Kat on how to make her amazing pound cake Ms. Belinda Caldwell & Ms. Katherine Council (Mama Kat) At “Heavenly Groceries,” Mama Kat and Belinda, both lifetime residents of Chapel Hill/Carrboro and First Baptist Church members, offer food with a large serving of good humor and warmth. Mama Kat’s oldest daughter, Caroline, a leader of the local civil rights movement, moved to Canada to escape… Ms. Belinda Caldwell & Ms. Katherine Council (Mama Kat) Katherine Council - On her childhood, family, and changes in Northside This interview provides an overview of the place and birth of Mama Kat. Her house burnt down in 1962. She notes the change in neighbors versus before. She had children graduating from college. Her 3 kids were in college at the same time. The last baby was born with down syndrome. 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