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Clayton Weaver

"If we gotta give up something, lets keep some history somewhere." - Clayton Weaver

 Clayton Weaver - On his parents, education, and Northside

“I tell you young people, stay up with your peers. Never lose track of them.” - Clayton Weaver Weaver was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC on Cameron Avenue. His great-uncle bought their family home in 1929 for $3000. He went to school at Northside Elementary. Weaver provides background on who…

 Clayton Weaver - On Northside's teaching community (clip)

 Clayton Weaver - On operettas and community support for the arts (clip)

 Clayton Weaver - On the Black business community in the 1950s (clip)

 Clementine (Fearrington) Self leads demonstrators

Clementine (Fearrington) Self leads demonstrators.   Marchers almost always carried the American flag, but not the North Carolina flag, during their protests.From left to right: Theodore “Buddy” Bynum, Lou Pearl Alston, Ruby Farrington, Clementine Self

Clementine Self

"I've heard so many people in my generation say, "I don't want my children to go through what I had to go through," and I keep asking them, "What did you go through?" Everything that I went through, I appreciate. I mean, I don't know what I didn't have. If I didn't have it, I don't miss it, but I…

 Clementine Self - On her childhood, civil rights, education, and school integration

“I was going for my education, I was really going to make a statement that I’ve integrated this school–or desegregated, it was never integrated–desegregated the school. That was my goal.” - Clementine Self Clementine Self is a former student of Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses…

 Clementine Self - On her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement (clip)

 Clementine Self - On integration's impact on her attending Chapel Hill High School (clip)

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

 Clementine Self - on student segregation at Chapel Hill High (clip)

Clementine Self (CS): I didn’t feel... Bob Gilgor (BG): Did your grades change between Lincoln and Chapel Hill High? CS: Um, in Math and French. BG: But the other classes stayed about the same. So you didn’t feel fearful about raising your hand in class and offering an answer to a question? CS: Not…

 Clementine Self with 1st graders at church

Clementine Self leads first graders in song in front of St. Joseph CME Church, as part of a Northside Elementary "Freedom Tour" in Fall 2013. The tour was part of the Jackson Center's Learning Across Generations Curriculum.

 Cleo Caldwell - On cancer (clip)

 Cleo Caldwell - On her family's musical talent, growing up in Northside, and returning to the neighborhood

In this interview, Cleo Caldwell, 53, discusses growing up in the Northside neighborhood surrounded by extended family and, in particular, her cousins who became policemen and civil rights activists. Cleo’s mother and sisters were known for their musical talents—her mother played piano and her…

 Cleo Caldwell - On her mother (clip)

Clifton Stone

 Clifton Stone - 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.

Clyde Perry

 Clyde Perry - On a Northside School day (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On book access and public library segregation (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On Bynum Weaver's Store (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On gathering at the Rockpile at Northside (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and 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…