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 Jarrett Dawson - On work, family, and church

In this interview, Jarrett Dawson, a Chapel Hill local discusses his experiences with work, family, and church. Although originally from North Carolina, Dawson talks briefly about how his family moved to Patterson New Jersey for a time, and the experience of taking trips between North Carolina and…

 Jarrett Dawson and other youth

 Jarrett Dawson leading song

 Jarrett Dawson's Dad

 Jasmine Farmer Performs

 Jasmine Farmer with 8th graders

Jasmine Farmer leads 8th graders at Smith Middle School in an exercise as part of a Civil Rights Workshop.

Jason Owens

Tommy Owens and Jason Owens are brothers who moved to Chapel Hill around 2008. Tommy is described to be someone who is “always looking out for others” and the brothers share a vision of the Chapel Hill community as a place that is safe, full of good neighbors, but changing with time. Their shared…

 Jean Pierre

 Jeanette Fearrington

Jerdene Alston

"We would always be singing at the time we were marching. We would just march and sing and that was it." - Jerdene Alston

 Jerdene Alston - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Jerdene Alston is a Chapel Hill native that was born in 1944. She grew up having no issues with others regarding race, but when she learned about racial injustices facing fellow Black Americans across the country, she joined the civil rights movement. This was after graduating second in her class in…

Jerry Neville

 Jim Wallace

 Jim Wallace and Thomas Hoyt

Jimmie Lee Bynum

Joal Broun

 Joal Broun - On education

Joanne McClelland

"We were a very bold group of African-American students, it was just something about the African-American kids in my class; we were not going to allow certain things to happen. And so, when we got together. . .and talked about how unfair it was and how it was not right to have some of our friends,…

 Joanne McClelland - On race in schools after the desegregation of Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools

This interview is part of a project conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the process of creating integrated institutions; and…

 Joanne McClelland - On the relationship between UNC and Chapel Hill's Black community

This interview is part of a project conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the process of creating integrated institutions; and…

Joanne Peerman

"We were not allowed into restaurants and nightclubs and the like. So anyone who wanted to go to wholesome family activities would go to school activities and sporting events and musical concerts given by the chorus from school. School played a very, very significant role in the black community. It…

 Joanne Peerman - On her childhood, education, and school integration

This oral history is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewees were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill,…

 Joe A. Fearrington - On the Carolina Inn

Joe A. Fearrington has lived in Chapel Hill his whole life and worked at the Carolina Inn for 30 years as a bellman on the “graveyard shift” and in the maintenance department. He reflects on his experience working at the Carolina Inn, sharing stories of guests, renovations, and other happenings at…

Joe Alston

Joe, a long-time resident of Northside, is known for the care with which he maintains his yard and the way he looks out for elderly neighbors on Lindsay Street.