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 Robert Campbell - Speaking about community, faith, and activism

Min. Robert Campbell is a well-known local activist who was raised by his grandparents in the Northside neighborhood. He attended Northside and Lincoln and was in the first desegregated graduating class at Chapel Hill High School (Class of ’67). He moved to Rogers Road in the 1970s where he has been…

 Rob Stephens on the mike

 Rob Stephens on the mike

 Reverend Troy Harrison - Faith Built This Community (clip)

Listen to Rev. Troy Harrison, former pastor of St. Joseph CME Church, speak about how faith sustained the Black communities of southern Orange County.

 Reverend JR Manley

 Reverend Johnson at the Black Church Panel

 Reverend Johnson at the Black Church Panel

 Reverend Albert Williams Speaks Emphatically

 Reverend Albert Speaks

 Rev. Wylie E. Wilson

Rev. Wylie E. Wilson served as Minister at St. Joseph CME Church from September 1953-1955 and returned from July 1974-1977. Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

 Rev. Warren R. Foushee

This photo shows Rev. Warren R. Foushee, who served as the pastor of St. Joseph CME Church from September 1955 to August 1964. Rev. Foushee was born and grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Patricia Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church

 Rev. Manley Speaks

 Rev. JR Manley Speaks

Rev. JR Manley speaks at a Sustaining OurSelves meeting in 2011.

 Rev. Albert Williams - On teachers at Northside Elementary (clip)

 Rev. Albert and Mrs. Eloise Williams

High school sweethearts, gracious hosts, committed servant leaders, the Reverend and Mrs. Williams, lifetime residents of Chapel Hill, chose to photographed in front of their beautiful home.
Rev. Williams was the first African American firefighter in Chapel Hill. Listen to hear more of his…

 Rev Troy Harrison makes his famous shrimp and grits

 Responses to Ms. Avery

 Response from Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. to President George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina

This email contains Bishop Hoyt's response to President George W. Bush's address to the nation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Bishop Hoyt was the President of the National Council of Churches at the time and the CME Bishop of Louisiana and Mississippi.Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson…

 Renowned, national activist, James Farmer, speaks at a civil rights gathering at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.

In preparation for a Freedom March from Durham to Chapel Hill, demonstrators attended a rally at Chapel Hill's First Baptist Church to hear civil rights leader James Farmer speak. Rev. J. R. Manley, pastor at First Baptist for sixty-six years, sits in the background.

 Renowned, national activist, James Farmer, speaks at a civil rights gathering at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.

Renowned, national activist, James Farmer, speaks at a civil rights gathering at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.   Rev. J. R. Manley, pastor at First Baptist for sixty-six years, sits in the background.

RENA Community Center

The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) Community Center is located at 101 Edgar St. in Chapel Hill, NC. The Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood his a historically Black community from Homestead to Eubanks Roads north of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The community dates back to the 1700s and until…

 Remembering Our Historical Roots by Alexa Young

Remembering Our Historical Roots by Alexa Young, inspired by an interview with photographer, Jim Wallace

 Reginald Hildebrand - UNC-NOW (clip)

Rob Stephens (RS): And was there any so… what did you think when this, when this St. Joseph’s partnership with students, the UNC-NOW group, came up? Reginald Hildebrand: I was amazed. I was ama– ‘cause there’s nothing in my experience since the 1960s to prepare me for that. There was no, there’s no…

 Reginald Hildebrand - The Hildebrand Name (clip)

Reginald Hildebrand: This is the story that’s handed down in the family, that at the time of emancipation they were on a plantation in South Carolina owned by a family named Wannamaker. Most of the slaves on that plantation took the name Wannamker and for that first generation, all of the slaves –…