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 Lifetime resident and community scholar, Kathy Atwater, speaks at the culminating dinner of the Civil Rights in Chapel Hill weekend celebration, 2012.  

Lewis Atwater

 Leticia Foushee

 Leslie Shannon responds with her own photo project

Half a century after the February 8, 1964 protest, inspired by Jim Wallace’s photograph, Leslie Shannon held a demonstration with her friends at the same spot on Franklin St. They stopped traffic as well as part of a continued fight for equality. Leslie’s photograph charges to continue to honor…

Lenoir Dining Hall

"I’ll never forget, down at the university when I worked in the food service, they were picketing in Lenoir Dining Hall, Chase Cafeteria, and the Student Union. We all had to group together because they didn’t want to pay us minimum wage, and the hours were so long. So, a guy came in from Georgia…

 Leaving Saving OurSelves

Learning Economic Vocabulary through Businesses in Our Community

Using case studies of local Black-owned businesses, students will learn key economic vocabulary terms and be able to explain how those terms apply to real world situations in their own community. NC Standard Course of Study: 2.E.1.1 Give examples of ways in which businesses in the community meet…

 Lavisha Williams - On food, cooking, and eating

Lavisha Williams grew up with her maternal grandparents as part of the household, and learned to cook watching them and her parents. Most of the foods and meals she grew up with had been passed down from her great-grandparents without cookbooks or precise recipes. Most of what she ate with her…

 Lavisha Williams

Laura Reeves

 Larry Clark - On his memories of the A.D. Clark Pool (clip)

 Lampstand

Knotts Funeral Home

"My uncle ran a funeral home here. Bynum Weaver Funeral Home (Chapel Hill Funeral Home), which is now on Graham Street. Actually, the original funeral home is still on Graham Street but is Knotts Funeral Home now. But that was my uncle’s funeral home." - Kathy Atwater Located at 113 N. Graham…

 Kling Stubbons Consultant

 Kids at Frangelism 2007

 Kevin, Student Renter on Sunset Drive

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…

Kenneth Mann

 Kelven Hargraves - On memories and changes at Hargraves (clip)

Kelven Hargraves remembers attending nursery school and playing sports at Hargraves and the changes he has seen at the Center since the days when it had an orange dirt path instead of a sidewalk. He talks about the Center giving young people in the Black community a safe place to go to play and…

Kelven Hargraves

 Keith, Student Renter on Sunset Drive

 Keith Edwards and Barbara Ross

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…

 Keith Edwards - On the Lincoln High School marching band (clip)

 Keith Edwards - On the importance of food

“Sundays were always a special day. That whole day was made into just like a holiday. - Keith Edwards This interview includes Keith Edwards’s viewpoint on the importance of food in the home and in the community.  She recalls specific recipes in the interview. Edwards was born and raised in Carrboro…