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 Terrence Foushee - On eliminating the achievement gap (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): … in part to try to address the achievement gap, what else do you think needs to happen in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system to reduce that gap and eliminate that gap in the future? Terrence Foushee (TF): What I think, and I don’t know how this happens, but it’s the…

 Terrence Foushee - On finding balance as a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): If you [Gillian] have any questions, I’d love for you to jump in, and also, if there’s anything you [Terrence Foushee] want to add before we wrap up that would be great. Gillian Kepley (GK): You had mentioned a while ago about your sleep schedule, and stuff like that, when you…

 Terrence Foushee - Sharing his appreciation (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Is there anything you’d like to add before we wrap up? Terrence Foushee (TF): One, I definitely appreciated this conversation because there are so many things that I got to think about and I really just want to show appreciation for a lot of the teachers, a lot of the Black women…

 Albert Williams - On faith

 Kathy Atwater - On faith

 Nate Davis, Jr. - On faith

 Euzelle Smith - On teaching in South Carolina (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - Introductions (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On his military service (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On the 933rd anti-aircraft unit (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On building his house (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On the sitting room (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On his nickname at Lincoln High (clip)

 R.D. Smith and Euzelle Smith - Explaining his nickname (clip)

 R.D. Smith - On how he learned about carpentry and construction (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On paying for housing (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On their careers prior to marriage (clip)

R.D. Smith (RDS): I refused the promotion. I said I want to go home. To my wife. We’d been married for … how long we’d been married for? Euzelle Smith (ES): Well, we married in ‘43, and you came out in, came out of service in ‘46. RDS: I know, I know. But we’d been married for what, about two…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On the history of Northside Elementary (clip)

Alexander Stephens (AS): You said, where exactly was the Orange County Training School in relation to here? Euzelle Smith (ES): It’s right up on the hill there, what is now Northside. That school was Orange County Training School when we came here, and then in the – well, I guess I came here in ‘43…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On her first year in Chapel Hill (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On Pottersfield (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On living outside of city limits (clip)

Euzelle Smith (ES): This area was— was not in the city limits. We had no paved streets, no city services, the nearest traffic light was at the corner of McDade and Church. No fire protection, no garbage pickup, no city services at all. And it was long after that when, I remember when, one summer, we…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On roads and traffic (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - Their grandson Sean (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On their neighbours (clip)

Alex Biggers (AB): Are you guys close with a lot of your neighbors? Euzelle Smith (ES): Hm? AB: Are you guys close with a lot of your neighbors? ES: No, no, not many. Most of them are tenants. Alexander Stephens (AS): What is your relationship with them? Is it a lot of students now? ES: Yeah a lot…