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 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

"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,…

 Joal Broun - On education

Joal Broun

Jimmie Lee Bynum

 Jim Wallace and Thomas Hoyt

 Jim Wallace

Jerry Neville

 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…

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

 Jeanette Fearrington

 Jean Pierre

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…

 Jasmine Farmer with 8th graders

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

 Jasmine Farmer Performs

 Jarrett Dawson's Dad

 Jarrett Dawson leading song

 Jarrett Dawson and other youth

 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

Jarrett Dawson grew up with family ties to Northside and spent much of his childhood growing up in Florence, North Carolina while discovering his talents as a musician. For a time, his family moved to Patterson, New Jersey where he also has a lot of extended family. As a young adult, he finished…

 Janie Johnson - On her home, family, elder care, and real estate

"My momma bought a house, four walls that did not have running water, did not have a bathroom, and did not have a kitchen sink. She walked through the door and began working on that house and every year we are still doing renovations to that house. They bought it in ’52 and here it is in 2019, and I…

 Janie Johnson - On food, family, and growing up in Carrboro

Food takes center stage for Janie Johnson. In this interview, she describes in vivid imagery, along with accompanying envisioned smells, the kitchens of her mother and grandmother and all the food that came out of them. Several times, Ms. Johnson mentions how the sassafras tea that her grandmother…

 Janie Johnson - On community (clip)

Janie Johnson