Home > Items Browse Items (2179 total) Sort by: Title Subject Date Added Katherine Council "My name is Katherine Council and everybody calls me Mama Kat for the simple reason that when I had my first grandchild I didn’t want to be called grandma because I didn’t want men to stop looking at me!" - Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Born and raised in Northside, Katherine "Mama Kat" Council… Katherine Council Kathy Atwater "There would not be a University if there had not been the Blacks in this community to help build the University." - Kathy Atwater Kathy Atwater is a native of Chapel Hill and has lived in the Northside Community all of her life. Having retired from the State of NC after 30 years of service, Kathy… Kathy Atwater Keith Edwards "You can only hold stuff in for so long." - Keith Edwards Keith Edwards is a native of Chapel Hill and has been a leader in the community for decades. Keith was one of the first black students to integrate Chapel Hill Junior High School in seventh grade. Ms. Keith later went on to work as a police… Keith Edwards Lillie Edwards Lillie Edwards was born in Wake County and moved to Durham at a young age with her family. After graduating from high school in Durham, she moved to Gomains Street in Northside where she met her husband, Russell Edwards. She raised her three children in Northside and was a very active member of St.… Lillie Edwards Linda Carver "So when you’re in your communities and you’re going through black neighborhoods, it was like you were in a whole different world. So it was like, racism didn’t affect you when you were going through your neighborhood." - Linda Carver Linda Carver Mark Royster "We cannot sit idly by and expect others to work on our behalf and in order to save us from ourselves. We have to be actively involved in the process of salvation. So those of us who are willing to sit back in a community and wait for students, to wait for clergy, or wait for others to come and be… Mark Royster Marquette Costen Marquette Costen Martrina Morrow "We were so segregated and I could never figure this one out and I wish somebody would tell me before I die: How in the name of God can you let me take care of your child, watch that child, you know, tend to that child, fix lunch for that child, and couldn’t eat in your house? I wish somebody would… Martrina Morrow Mildred Council "All of us cooked except one. And we learned how by eyes, you know." - Mildred Council Mildred Council Patricia "Pat" Jackson "All I wanted to do was just be present and serve activism, not understanding that that came with some consequences. . .once you step out in service there are consequences and just as you step out in service for the lord there are consequences." - Pat Jackson Patricia "Pat" Jackson Paul Caldwell "I worked there for twenty seven years. I worked my way up from a patrol officer to a sergeant, then I worked from sergeant to a lieutenant, and then I was promoted finally to shift captain before I retired." - Paul Caldwell Paul Caldwell is a long time resident of the Northside Neighborhood, and… Paul Caldwell R.D. Smith R.D. and Euzelle Smith built their house on Caldwell Street after R.D. returned from serving in World War II. Leading figures in the neighborhood and the town, both were life-long educators in Chapel Hill. He was the principal of Lincoln High School and a mentor to many young people who grew up in… R.D. Smith Regina Merritt Regina Merritt Min. Robert Campbell "We want our young people to have a sense of worth in this, to have a value about who they are, and not to limit yourself because of your stature because your imagination and your desire can carry you above your stature." - Min. Robert Campbell Min. Robert "Peter" Campbell grew up in Northside. Many… Min. Robert Campbell Robert Revels Robert Revels Roberto Gonzalez Roberto Gonzalez has been a member of the Northside community since arriving in Chapel Hill in 2007. After leaving his family’s farm around the age of fifteen to go work in Mexico City, Roberto obtained a job in the United States and immigrated here when he was about 26 years old. Joined by his… Roberto Gonzalez Russell Edwards Russell Edwards Sharon Livingston Sharon Livingston Shirley Davis "My mother worked for one of the richest men in Chapel Hill, Milton Julian, he owned a clothing store. She raised all of his kids, 7 kids, and we all grew up together." - Shirley Davis Shirley Davis Stephanie Soulama Stephanie Soulama Terry Carver "We all gathered on Sundays; you couldn't do anything but visit family. There was no such thing as stores and stuff open you know, so pretty much you visited family on those days. You'd have the cousins and everybody around you, grandparents and you just kind of listened and heard what they talked… Terry Carver Thomas Bell Thomas Bell is a longtime Northside community member, who grew up walking to high school football games in Carrboro and playing at Hargraves. He attended Lincoln High School before Chapel Hill public schools were desegregated. These days, he volunteers at Heavenly Groceries and is an active member… Thomas Bell Tommy 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… Tommy Owens Velma Perry "About a hundred and thirty years there: the same house. People live in it [laughter] right now!" - Velma Perry Velma Perry Previous Page ... 51 52 53 54 55 ... Next Page
