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Cynthia Edwards-Paschall

 Cynthia Edwards-Paschall - On hanging out at Hargraves (clip)

She remembers Hargraves as her “second home” and a safe place to be. She describes staying at the pool all day until her fingers and toes were like raisins.

Dairy Bar

"Big John, who was known as the most racist drugstore guy, you know, you couldn't, he didn't allow blacks to come in there and do anything in his store. He had made it known that he was a racist, so when you walked down his street you had to look for him, when you walked past the drugstore you had…

 Daniel Elam serves hotdogs

 Danina Henley - On Community Gets People Through (clip)

Danina Henley: The community is what got people through, you know neighbors is what got each other through hard times when my grandmother was coming up and when her mother was coming up. It was neighbors that got people through hard times. I know with the recent recession scare and all the things…

 Danina Henley on Meeting Needs and Addressing Problems (clip)

Danina Henley: I’m still getting used to the diversity as far as feeling like I belong here. Growing up, I was around people that were just like me. It’s just different. We were all alike. We all had the same interests. How do I want to say it? Our way of life was just real similar. We shared a lot.…

 Darrell Foushee, Easter 1992

Darrell Foushee stands in front of St. Paul AME Church on Easter Sunday in 1992. Photo courtesy of Arminta Foushee.

 David Caldwell

 David Caldwell - On the difficulties between the local government and Rogers-Eubank community concerning the landfill

This interview is part of an SOHP project called Rural South: Backways: Understanding Segregation in the Rural South. The interviews, 2014-, were conducted in the rural piedmont region and eastern North Carolina about the often hidden forces of structural and institutional discrimination that have…

 David Caldwell - Introductions (clip)

 David Caldwell - On the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community

“That’s one reason we’re trying so hard to document everything. Because if you lose your identity, you lose your community…You lose your community, whether it’s from development or people buying it, you lose your identity also. So either way, if you lose either one, you’ve lost completely.” - David…

David Caldwell, Jr.

A Chapel Hill native, David Caldwell is the Project Director and Community Organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association located in northern Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As part of his position, he collaborates with UNC in research and works with PORCH and summer enrichment programs to…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - Advice to the current generation (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - Going to town (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr.: Because when we moved out here, I was in the third grade, so it was the [19]60s, and there was not a lot of houses. There was not a lot of things going on that you could do, so we spent a lot of our time in the woods. There were maybe thirteen kids out here at the time on the…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On Able T. Rogers (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On activism (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): We brought up the fact that they were not keeping the promises that were made. We would go to meetings to voice our protest and, I mean, we were met with disgust and disdain and, “Why are you guys back here again?” [Sound of train passing, whistle blowing] We were bringing…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On big athletic games (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On Black police officers (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On Caldwell historical items (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On Cyrus Guy and poor houses (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On David Fitz (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On difficulties as a police officer (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On drill sergeants (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On family history with the masons (clip)