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Michelle Rolanda Brown

Michelle Rolanda Brown (MRB) is the Director of Developm at the Jackson Center. MRB came to Chapel Hill as a student in 2014 and remained in the Triangle area following graduation in 2018 in order to continue work with the Silent Sam Movement. Following the monument’s toppling, MRB served as a…

 Michelle Laws with Yonni Chapman's family

 Michelle Laws Praying

 Michelle Laws on Sustaining OurSelves panel

 Michelle Laws

 Michelle Laws

 Michael Parker

This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives and struggle of various members of the Northside community: a historically black and primarily residential neighborhood located immediately northwest of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and…

 Michael Palmer - On his family, education, and career

As the son of a man in the Navy Michael Palmer grew up all over the East Coast, which helped shape him into the person he is today. While his mother passed away when he was young, his father always stepped up to be the best role model that he could be for his sons. Mr. Palmer talks about living at…

Michael Palmer

"Wealth is in relationships. And if you wanted to measure that wealth, it is in the number of people that show up to your funeral. Because if people care enough, they’re gonna take time outta their lives to acknowledge yours." - Michael Palmer In his current position as Senior Outreach Coordinator…

 Michael Jones - On faith

Michael Jones

Michael Jenkins

 Michael Carver's Response

Merritt's Store

"The geographic boundary was pretty much the neighborhood. I think one time a friend and I left the neighborhood and we ended up at Merritt's store to get some candy. And we went past Merritt's store and we ended up on the next street. There turned out to be some lady up there who knew us, and she…

Merritt School

"We went to a little country school back of our house [run by] Lottie Merritt. It was a school where we [went] from [grades] 1 through 7 and then we would take a test and go to high school at Orange County Training School." - Isabel Atwater Lottie Merritt ran a country school known as Merritt School…

Memorial Hospital

"And that was 1952, when the hospital was opened. That's when jobs really became available. And then, if you got a job at the university hospital, twenty-five dollars a week, a hundred dollars a month. That was a long way from paying seven dollars a week." - Rebecca Clark "My grandmother didn't do…

 Members of several rights organizations stand in front of the Chapel Hill Post Office

Members of several rights organizations stand in front of the Chapel Hill Post Office. They led this holiday march on December 7, 1963. Carrying letters addressed to political leaders to urge anti-discrimination legislation, they requested that fellow Chapel Hill citizens follow suit and "Send…

Melvin Parrish

 Melissa Peters - On education

Melissa Peters

 Media in the Movement by Annie Wilcosky was inspired by an interview with Jim Wallace.

McDougle Middle School

"I know at McDougle Middle School where I worked part-time for the past six years, I made many a phone call encouraging Blacks to come to PTA meetings and to let them know that it was very important to be involved. I did encourage becoming leaders within the PTA." - Hilliard Caldwell McDougle Middle…

McDougle Elementary School

McDougle Elementary opened in 1996. The school is named after Charles and Lucille McDougle, who educated students in Chapel Hill for over 40 years. It shares a campus with McDougle Middle School.

 May Day Festival, 2014