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 Valerie P. Foushee - On her career after leaving UNC (clip)

TB: So after you left you mentioned that you were working full time, what job were you working at? Valerie Foushee: I started out working part time while I was at Carolina for the Chapel Hill School system driving a school bus and being a bus monitor, and then I got a job at Blue Cross and Blue…

 Valerie P. Foushee - On her activism and social life while at UNC (clip)

Valerie Foushee: ...or I would just kind of like stay in my room, watch TV and study, but I was at Carolina, and that was important. Tracey Barrett: So did you, you lived on campus all four years? VF: I lived on campus for two years, and my roommate the first year was a sophomore from the Henderson…

 Charlene Smith - On operettas at Northside (clip)

 Carolyn Briggs - On walking to Northside Elementary (clip)

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

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

 Freda Andrews - On her experience at Northside (clip)

Freda Andrews: I grew up walking to Northside Elementary School because that’s the mode of transportation in those days. And I would cross a little branch everyday going to Northside, which was 20 minutes from my house, if that much. The only difficulty with that sometimes, the little water would…

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

 Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On Civil Rights protests (clip)

Keith Edwards: Yeah, 1966 when they fully integrated. Cause I went there in the seventh grade, and I was just eleven years old. We went on Franklin Street. Carol Brooks: See that was back in ’64, in ’63…That’s when we were cheerleaders for Lincoln High School. Patricia Atwater, Evelyn Walker, and…

 Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the mood at Civil Rights marches (clip)

Ben Barge: Do you remember what it felt like, being in the march? Carol Brooks: Well like I told you, it felt… wonderful, it was exciting, new, you know, trying to help integrate, want to be in the front []. Because I remember the bus station, you know, they had the colored, the white, you weren’t…

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

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

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

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On the landfill and loss of Black-owned homes (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On the impact of gentrification (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On the impact of Duke Energy ordinances on her family property (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On her journey as a leader (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On being bullied (clip)

 Stanley Vickers - On protesting and the coverage of the Civil Rights Movement (clip)

 Stanley Vickers - On his participation in the Civil Rights Movement (clip)

 Mary Norwood Jones - On Orange County Training School (clip)

Mary Norwood Jones (MNJ): Well, not at Northside. It was Orange County Training School and this school became Northside in 1951. My class was the last graduating class to attend this school and graduate from twelfth grade. At that particular time it was named Lincoln. The name of the school was…

 Anita Spring Council and Annette "Neecy" Council - On family reunions (clip)

 Anita Spring Council - On Bill's Bar-b-que (clip)

 Anita Spring Council - On Bill's Bar-b-que (clip)