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Bernice Harrison

Mrs. Bernice Harrison is the wife of Reverend Troy Harrison and the mother of Brittney Harrison. She was raised in a Baptist church but began to attend a Methodist church after she married Reverend Harrison, becoming a member of St. Joseph CME. Mrs. Harrison has played a central role in the…

 Bernice Harrison at clothing drive

 Bernice Harrison's macaroni and cheese

Bertina Parrish

Betsy Battle Davis

 Betsy Battle Davis - On her childhood, education, and career with the WIC program

This interview is part of a project done in fall 2015 and spring 2016, conducted by SOHP undergraduate interns with members of the Black Pioneers, the first African American students to attend and integrate UNC-Chapel Hill from 1952 to 1972. Betsy Davis begins the interview by reflecting on her…

Betty Baldwin Geer

 Betty Baldwin Geer - On her family, work experiences, and gentrification

"Thirteen years old and I gave my hand over to God. I've been in church ever since. Of course when you go off to college, you kind of drift away, but you always come back. I loved it. It was a good experience for me. It has always been a good experience for me." - Betty Baldwin Geer This interview…

 Betty Geer - On gardens (clip)

 Betty Geer - On Greenbridge (clip)

 Betty Geer - On the neighborhood (clip)

 Betty Geer Comment

 Betty Geer serving hotdogs

Betty King

 Betty King - on changing the name of Orange County Training School (clip)

RG: When did they change the name Orange County Training School to Northside and Lincoln. BK: When they built Lincoln. No. They changed Orange County Training School, I think, I'm not really sure, I think about 1949, 48-49, somewhere along there. And that was because the parents - we had some…

 Betty King - On growing up in Chapel Hill, family, and Lincoln High School

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…

 Betty King - on her first encounters with segregation as she began schooling (clip)

BK: Yeah. And see then, I knew what, got my first taste of segregation mainly was when I started school. RG: Which school? BK: It was Orange County Training School at that time. And that's over there where Northside is now. Same building. OK. The white school was where the Town Hall of Carrboro is.…

 Betty King - on opportunities after graduating high school (clip)

RG: Do you have any idea when you graduated, how many went on to get a college degree or started college? BK: Most of them that finished school went on. RG: Went on to college? BK: To college, yes. And a lot of them left Chapel Hill because there was no future for them in Chapel Hill. The only thing…

 Betty King - on teachers as role models at Orange County Training School (clip)

RG: Do you still remember your teachers from Orange County Training School? BK: I remember, not back too far. I just went to one of them's funeral. She passed. Ruth Hope, I went to her funeral. One teacher, Miss Eziel ? Smith. She was my teacher. There's another one that's still alive and lives in…

Beverly Scarlett

Bill's Bar-B-Que

"He had a wood yard; he sold wood. And so he asked and said, “Mary, why don’t you open a restaurant?” Because she could cook too, because she was cooking in the home and was taking care of the two children, you know...so that’s what they done. He did away with the wood yard and then we built this…

 Biographical Sketch of Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr.

The 2012-2013 Directory of the Seventh Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church included a biographical sketch of Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. who was the Presiding Prelate of the district.Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

Birdine Edwards