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 Pastor Troy Harrison singing "I Won't Complain"

Partial notes about General Claims

This is the last page of notes from St. Joseph CME Church talking about paying General Claims under the leadership of Dr. LK Bennett. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Patricia Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

 Parrish Brothers, owners of one of the oldest African-American owned farms in Orange County

The Parrish brothers’ farm is one of the oldest African-American owned farms in Orange County. Here, they pose behind the truck they bring into town each day to Northside to pick up expired food from “Heavenly Groceries” to use on the farm to feed the animals and make sure that nothing is wasted.…

Paris Miller

 Panel Tension Rises

Pamphlet from The 1995 Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture/Preaching Series

Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. was one of the featured speakers for the 1995 Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture/Preaching Series. The series was presented by the Duke University Divinity School The Office of Black Church Affairs and the Black Seminarians Union. Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and…

 Pamphlet from a Quadrennial Celebration Honoring Bishop Charles Lee Helton and Mrs. Willie Ann Helton

This is the cover and a dedication page from a booklet for a Quadrennial Celebration "Saluting Faithful and Devoted Leadership" Honoring Bishop Charles Lee Helton and Mrs. Willie Ann Helton, held by The Carolina Region of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat"…

 Over 200 UNC students and Northside neighbors crowd the front lawn of St. Joseph C.M.E. to dance the “Electric Slide” at the May Day festival, 2010.  

Order of Service from Rev. Alex A. Chamber's Service of Memory

Dr. Alex A. Chambers served as pastor at St. Joseph CME Church from 1964-1967. His Service of Memory took place at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee on March 23, 1992. This pamphlet includes his obituary and information on the service. Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME…

 Orange County Training School Football Team

Orange County Training School

"The OCTS is over here, on Caldwell. And my mother’s father was one of the ones that laid the cornerstone, they were all masons. And so I went to what they called Northside, but was OCTS, from 1945 which was when I started...and so my class was the first class that went all the way through from the…

 On February 8, 1964, protesters block the drive to UNC’s Woolen Gym during a Wake Forest game.

On February 8, 1964, protesters block the drive to UNC’s Woolen Gym during a Wake Forest game. Arthur Beaumont, Chief of UNC campus police is on the left.

On and Off the Midway

In 1957 in Chapel Hill, only 3 restaurants in Chapel Hill were desegregated, those owned and run by the immigrant Danziger family. Otherwise, Jim Crow laws kept Black residents from sharing a lunch counter, much less a table with whites. Breaking bread together would be one of the last thresholds of…

 Official Program of the Forty-Ninth Annual Session of the Interdenominational Ushers Association of North Carolina

This session was held at St. Joseph CME Church in Chapel Hill, NC from August 9-12, 1973. The theme of the session was "Striving Toward Greater Growth." Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

 Offerings collected after a protest

Protestors line up in First Baptist Church to donate money into a church offering plate. Donations were always taken after rallies, to help pay bail and get everything needed for marches. The donations were not collected for the church.Sheila Bynum Florence is on the far right at the front of the…

 Odessa Cotten - 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.

Odessa Cotten

 Ocie Hoyt Interviewed

 Ocie Hoyt

 Obituary for Mrs. Ida Lou Hoyt

Mrs. Ida Lou Hoyt's funeral took place on August 19, 1995 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Reverend Larry Anders officiated the service. Mrs. Hoyt was the mother of Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., who served as the minister of St. Joseph from 1967-1970.Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph…

 Obituary for Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr.

The Missionary Messenger featured an obituary for Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. in the October 2013 issue. Photo courtesy of Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

O'Bryant Chapel AME Zion Church

O'Bryant Chapel AME Zion Church is located on Chapel Street in Chapel Hill, NC.

NOW Church

NOW Church is located on Barbee Chapel Road in Chapel Hill, NC.

Norwood Brothers Esso Service Station

"Northside was closer to Chapel Hill High than it was to Lincoln, and so in passing you would see the white students on the other side of Franklin Street smoking the cigarettes at Ross Norwood's service station in clear view of the schoolyard. Nobody was trying to hide from the either their parents,…