Home > Items Browse Items (2179 total) Sort by: Title Subject Date Added Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem State University is a historically Black public university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded as Slater Industrial Academy in 1892, it was renamed Winston-Salem Teachers College in 1925. The addition of a school of nursing in 1963 led it to be renamed Winston-Salem State College… Winston-Salem State University Windy Hill "I was born in Chapel Hill, I was born on Hillsborough Street, which most blacks referred as Windy Hill. And...to enter Windy Hill, you had to go through the white community. And to exit Windy Hill you had to go through the white community. And it was just a segment of black homeowners that lived on… Windy Hill William E. Smith Masonry "When you start, you’re always dealing with brick. But with bricks come long blocks, and then later on, then come rocks. You know, so I was not trained to be a rock mason. 1971 or 1972, I did my first rock repair on Pittsboro Street at the Carolina Inn. And we have just gone from there.... I knew… William E. Smith Masonry Watts Restaurant and Watts Motel "We may have had a few incidents, and I remember at the Watts Motel, they would throw acid and pee out the window, embarrassing. But they just didn’t want us to integrate, that was the biggest problem." - Carol Brooks "They was picketing that place because they wouldn t let Blacks go in there and… Watts Restaurant and Watts Motel Villa Teo "I started working part time at the last restaurant that the Danzigers had, called the Villa Teo. The Villa Teo is down on what we call Stroud Hill...And the Villa Teo was a beautiful place...it was the type of place where you would want to take your girl on a nice date." - David Mason Originally… Villa Teo Varsity Theatre "My dad, when we was growing up he worked at the Varsity Theatre as a janitor, and that gave us the opportunity to go and see some of the movies. As you know, back in the early '50s and the '60s and maybe up into the '70s, you know, you were not, African Americans was not allowed to go to the… Varsity Theatre University of North Carolina at Greensboro Initially established as a women's college, the State Normal and Industrial School opened in 1892. In 1919 it was renamed the North Carolina College for Women and in 1932 it was renamed the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Men were first admitted in 1963, when it became the… University of North Carolina at Greensboro Pastors of Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church Pastors of Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church History of Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church History of Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church Kennon Cheek/Rebecca Clark Building The Kennon Cheek/Rebecca Clark building was built in the 1920s to house the university laundry. It was renamed in 1998 to honor Kennon Cheek, a former janitor in Venable Hall and first president of the university janitor's association, and Rebecca Clark, who worked as a housekeeper at the Carolina… Kennon Cheek/Rebecca Clark Building University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "There would not be a University if there had not been the Blacks in this community to help build the University." - Kathy Atwater The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789 and began enrolling students in 1795. Through the mid-19th century, enslaved Black people on lease… University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Trailways Bus Station "Me and my Mom used to go to the Trailways bus station to catch the bus to Durham ~ they had black, well it was "colored" back then, on one side and "white" on the other, and we had our place on the bus, we had our water fountains for coloreds and our bathrooms for coloreds, and we figured that's… Trailways Bus Station Tin Top "If you come across the railroad track, you’re going to run into Brewer Lane. And when you get there from Brewer Lane, and you come on around the curve, right there is Hargraves Street. That was Tin Top. That little area was up there, Tin Top." - Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee The Tin Top neighborhood… Tin Top Tin Can "Sometimes the [Lincoln High School basketball] coaches would take the boys to a gym down on UNC campus to play...the Tin Can. They would take them down to practice. They never played a game there. All the games were played over here in our auditorium." - Mary Norwood Jones The Tin Can on the UNC… Tin Can The Patio "There's another fellow who came home from World War II and moved back here by 1954. He built a place back here on Merritt Mill Road -- it's no longer there -- called The Patio. He was trying to make it go and all...And in the summer, too, there was a lot of people in Chapel Hill that had nieces and… The Patio Sutton's Drug Store "Most of the news that came out of that was the kind of word of mouth. You know, we're going to march in front of Sutton's today and the word would just kind of come, and after it was over-. I marched in some of these places." - Stanley Vickers Sutton's Drug Store opened in the Strowd Building at… Sutton's Drug Store Staunton Memorial CME Church Staunton Memorial CME Church is located at 230 Credle Street in Pittsboro, NC. Staunton Memorial CME Church James Blacknell Jr. building a stone wall James Blacknell Jr. builds a stone wall on the campus of the University of North Carolina. Mr. Blacknell, along with his father (James Blacknell, Sr.) and son (Norman Blacknell) worked as stone masons, constructing many of the prominent stone walls and buildings on the campus of UNC.Photo courtesy… James Blacknell Jr. building a stone wall Deshawn Alston - Old School (clip) Deshawn Alston - Old School (clip) Evelyn Dove-Coleman Evelyn Dove-Coleman established PathChoice Ministry in Chapel Hill in 1992 by bringing role models to speak to underprivileged youth at the Hargraves Community Center in North Side. Then-mayor Ellie Kinnaird and AMIE Tutor Esphur Foster supported bringing the children to the center and feeding them… Evelyn Dove-Coleman Carolyn Briggs - On being self-supported (clip) Carolyn Briggs - On being self-supported (clip) Carolyn Briggs - On when integration started (clip) Carolyn Briggs - On when integration started (clip) R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School "They were saying, 'We want Black history courses in this school. We feel like everybody ought to have a knowledge for what the Blacks have contributed to this society.' And yet the textbooks don't even a carry a thing about it...I don't intend for that to happen at R.D. Smith and Euzelle B. Smith's… R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School Scarborough & Hargett Celebration of Life Center, Inc. "Scarborough owned Scarborough Funeral Home in Durham. And they used to have a funeral home in Chapel Hill, too, before they moved to Durham. They had them in both places." - Doug Clark, Sr. Scarborough & Hargett Celebration of Life Center, Inc. began in Kinston, NC in 1871 when grocer J.C.… Scarborough & Hargett Celebration of Life Center, Inc. Previous Page ... 38 39 40 41 42 ... Next Page
