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Carrboro Elementary School

"I was in a Black school at Northside Elementary. [My mother] wanted me to go to the school which was the nearest to our home which was the white school...Carrboro Elementary....I can only guess that it was because, I mean, I don't think she set out to be a history maker or a trendsetter. I don't…

Cary Esser

 Cary Esser - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.

 Casey Molina, First?

Casey Molina, First?, inspired by an interview with William Carter, held in the Jackson Center Oral History Trust.

Catharyne Butler

Cathedral of Hope Mission Church

Cathedral of Hope Mission Church is located at 100-A Hillview Street in Carrboro, NC.

 Cecelia Massey-Fike and family

Cecilia Davis

"[Lincoln] wasn’t integrated and I didn’t know anything about integrated schools, cause I never went to one and I never worked at one. But I loved working at Lincoln." - Cecilia Davis

 Cecilia Davis - On growing up in Raleigh and teaching at Lincoln High

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…

 Cecilia Massey

 Cecilia Massey

 Cecilia Massey-Fike

Cecilia Massey-Fike

 Cecilia Massey-Fike - On her family, faith, and community

Cecilia Massey-Fike is an important member of her community in Chapel Hill, NC taking particular prominence among her family and her church, Saint Joseph’s Methodist Episcopal Church. During her life in Chapel Hill she has worked as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) at Chapel Hill Rehab, worked in…

 Cecilia Massey-Fyke

Celebrations

Make a joyful noise (Psalm 100).  Celebration is an act of faith, triumph, unity, and renewal.  Joyful rituals abound across the past, in the present, and into the future of Black Chapel Hill/Carrboro.  Whether after church at the Dairy Bar, during the May Day Festival that marked the end of the…

Chaitra Powell

"It’s much easier to be anonymous in Chicago or L.A...,But here it’s kind of...natural to say Hi and get to know people, so: it's different but it's good." - Chaitra Powell

 Chandler Alston and Sam Tyson

 Chapel Hill - Carrboro Merchants Association Credit Bureau Chamber of Commerce

Chapel Hill High School

"McDougle had been the principal since1949 through 1966 at Lincoln. All of a sudden, he goes to Chapel Hill High, and they take and make him an assistant. W.D. Peerman who had been one of the winningest football coaches of North Carolina, he was regulated to the JV team." - David Mason,…

 Chapel Hill High Student Artwork

Chapel Hill High student reflects artistically on the content of a Civil Rights Workshop at Chapel Hill High in 2013. The workshop is part of the Jackson Center's Learning across Generations curriculum.

 Chapel Hill High student responds artistically to learning about Civil Rights in Chapel Hill.

 Chapel Hill High Student responds artistically to the power of song is social movements.

Chapel Hill Junior High School

I think one thing that helped me survive up on Franklin Street at Chapel Hill Junior High School was some of the white friends we had, male and female. You know, I remember I used to be sitting there in class...crying and...there were these two white girls that used to just kind of...talk to me, and…