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 Neighborhood youth enjoy sno-cones at Frangelism, 2007.

 Over 200 UNC students and Northside neighbors crowd the front lawn of St. Joseph C.M.E. to dance the “Electric Slide” at the May Day festival, 2010.  

 Remembering Our Historical Roots by Alexa Young

Remembering Our Historical Roots by Alexa Young, inspired by an interview with photographer, Jim Wallace

 Renowned, national activist, James Farmer, speaks at a civil rights gathering at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.

Renowned, national activist, James Farmer, speaks at a civil rights gathering at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.   Rev. J. R. Manley, pastor at First Baptist for sixty-six years, sits in the background.

 Student leaders of United with the Northside Community Now (UNC NOW—a precursor to the Jackson Center) pose with Northside youth leaders at the first May Day Festival, 2009.

 Third grade student at Northside Elementary responds to the question, “What does freedom mean to you?”

 Transcription of Albert Williams recounting his initial interview with the Chapel Hill Fire Department.

 Velma Perry shares her insight at a Sustaining OurSelves Coalition Meeting in 2011

 Jean Pierre

 Garrett Penley - Distribution of Wealth (clip)

Albert Simms Williams

"If you can be patient and be kind, even a bull dog will stop barking and listen to you. If you take the time with it, you’ll back it down." - Albert Simms Williams

Alicia Gomez

Andres Morales-Castillo

Andrés Morales-Castillo es un residente de Chapel Hill, NC originalmente de Monterrey, México.

Andres Morales-Castillo is a resident of Chapel Hill, NC originally from Monterrey, Mexico.

Antonio Silva-Martinez

"...for a good neighborhood you need the family to be united. The parents have to teach their kids well and teach them to live with their neighbors and share with their neighbors and get along well with their neighbors, and I think if one neighbor gets along well with the other neighbors then they…

Antonio Vinson

"It takes a strong neighborhood to build a town. You’ve got to take it one neighborhood at a time. And I see that happening around here." - Antonio Vinson

Benito Escovedo-Leal

Señor Benito Escovedo-Leal vive en Chapel Hill. Originalmente es de Pueblo, México.

Mr. Benito Escovedo-Leal lives in Chapel Hill. Originally, he is from Pueblo, Mexico.

Betty Baldwin Geer

Brentton Harrison

Brentton Harrison is a low country South Carolina born son of a preacher man. He tells his version of life experiences through jokes and metaphors sprinkled with a bit of straight-shootin' directness. He loves to ponder what love actually is but is deeply driven by his ever-evolving ideas of Love in…

Brian Toomey

Carol Brooks

Carol Books was young when the Civil Rights Movement came to Chapel Hill, but she remembers how it felt to be here at that time. After she graduated from Lincoln High School, she attended Durham Tech. She devoted 32 years of her life to serving UNC’s Pediatric Ward, work which she loved and misses…

Cecilia Massey-Fike

Clayton Weaver

"If we gotta give up something, lets keep some history somewhere." - Clayton Weaver

Clementine Self

"I've heard so many people in my generation say, "I don't want my children to go through what I had to go through," and I keep asking them, "What did you go through?" Everything that I went through, I appreciate. I mean, I don't know what I didn't have. If I didn't have it, I don't miss it, but I…

Crystal Freeman