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 Clementine Self - on Lincoln High vs. Chapel Hill High (clip)

 Clementine Self - on student segregation at Chapel Hill High (clip)

Clementine Self (CS): I didn’t feel... Bob Gilgor (BG): Did your grades change between Lincoln and Chapel Hill High? CS: Um, in Math and French. BG: But the other classes stayed about the same. So you didn’t feel fearful about raising your hand in class and offering an answer to a question? CS: Not…

 Coretta Sharpless - On the Legacy of Northside Elementary School

Principal Coretta Sharpless retold the past of Northside Elementary School (NES) and discussed the re-opening of NES. She proudly highlighted how students carry out NES values through community engagements and commemoration. The Northside Timeline and preservation of archival materials from OCTS,…

Coretta Sharpless

Dr. Bettina Shuford

 Dr. Bettina Shuford - On faith

 Mr. Antonio Silva Martinez

Originally from Mexico, Antonio made his home in Carrboro a number of years ago. He’s worked in a number of different trades and hopes he’ll be able to start a business of his own one day.

 Antonio Silva-Martinez

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…

 Ruby Farrington (right) and Arthur B. Simons (left) lead a sit-in that paralyzes Franklin Street on February 8, 1964.

Ruby Farrington (right) and Arthur B. Simons (left) lead a sit-in that paralyzes Franklin Street on February 8, 1964.   Ruby and Arthur moved together to Boston, where they were married in 1965; (marriage was still illegal in NC at the time).

Ruby Farrington Simons

 Ruby Farrington Simons - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill

Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.

 R. D. Smith - About his childhood, career in education, and school integration

This interview 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 interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…

 “Grillmaster” Calvin Smith

“Grillmaster” Calvin Smith, a community leader and steward of St. Joseph’s, cooks 1100 hotdogs at St. Joseph’s “Frangelism in the Park” gospel music celebration in 2007.

Charlene Smith

"Whether it was always having a black teacher, having a black custodian, having a black principal who directed the way the school was going. Black cafeteria workers. It was black people around you, which you always had a sense of family, and a sense of community. A sense of safety, and a sense of…

 Charlene Smith - On her childhood, parents, education, student behavior, school integration

“What we had students don’t get now as easily. There’s something missing now for many of the kids…when I attended Lincoln there were Black role models around me everywhere…there were Black people around you, which you always had a sense of family, and a sense of community, a sense of safety, and a…

 Charlene Smith - On operettas at Northside (clip)

 Charlene Smith - reflects on her teachers at Northside elementary (clip)

RG: Are there any other memories of your childhood that stand out in your mind? CS: No, I think you just kind of accept things as they are, and you don't question them or really see the value until you move on to another stage. Then you can see the importance of what you did have, and what we had,…

 Charlene Smith - on her teachers providing mental health support (clip)

RG: Well, let's graduate from Northside - not Orange County Training School - and go on to Lincoln. I may repeat some of the same kinds of questions, but I want to understand what you remember about the characteristics of the teachers at Lincoln. CS: The characteristics that I remember of - the…

 Charlene Smith - on her experience at school while her father was principal (clip)

RG: Was it difficult for you at the high school, with your dad as principal? CS: Probably, yeah, (laughter) Eyes always on me. RG: Eyes always on you. CS: Yeah. RG: Did you think you got special treatment, or tougher treatment, or the same as everybody else? CS: I didn't get special treatment. And I…

 Charlene Smith - on her parents monumental impact on education in Chapel Hill (clip)

RG: What is it that, what are the contributions that your mother made that allowed a school to be named after her? CS: Just the longevity of teaching in this community as long she did. RG: 1932 till — CS: What was it, I know they had taught over 60-some years in this particular community together,…

 Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On Pottersfield and Smith Middle School

This interview was done as part of the “Histories of Homes” initiative of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History. The interview includes R.D.’s experience in WWII and his role in constructing their current home after the war. R.D. also held educator roles at Lincoln High…

 Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On changes in Northside

The interviewees share their experiences with living in Northside, the1940s until today, and the lack of interactivity between Northside and the university. There is a lack of progress in preventing harmful change to Northside. R.D. Smith talks about his own experience on town council. They talk…

Euzelle Smith