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 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…

Ida Mae Johnson

Gloria Register Jeter

 Gloria Regester Jeter - On school integration and racial discrimination

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…

Michael Jenkins

 T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala

Minnie James, Helen Redd, and Grace Franklin celebrate together. Ms. Franklin hosted the T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala at her home on Lindsey Street.

 Minnie James with her daughter Dolores Eunice Farrington

Mrs. Minnie James sits in St. Paul AME Church with her daughter, Mrs. Dolores Eunice Farrington, at the church's 134th anniversary in 1998. Photo courtesy of Arminta Foushee

 St. Paul AME Church 134th Anniversary

For St. Paul AME Church's 134th anniversary in 1998, the church organized a walk from Chapel of the Cross to St. Paul AME Church called Faith on Franklin. In the photo Mrs. Minnie James seated, surrounded by the great grandchildren of Mrs. Fannie Edwards. Photo courtesy of Arminta Foushee.

 Jacob James and his taxi company, Tar Heel Taxi No. 1

Photos courtesy of Arminta Foushee

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - Sharing more about A.D. Clark Pool (clip)

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On her memories of A.D. Clark Pool (clip)

 Patricia Jackson - On St. Joseph CME Church from 1970-1974

"Well, it was always a place [the church] you could come to gain and find out the needs of the community." - Patricia "Pat" Jackson This interview is a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s faith series. In this interview, Pat Jackson discusses the life and legacy of Reverend Charles L. Hilton,…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On her faith

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On pastors getting youth involved (clip)

Kathryn Wall: What kind of qualities in a pastor inspired young people to get involved, do you think? Patricia Jackson: I think anytime that you were a little, not so much liberal, but not so stuffed shirt and rigid. If you had, you know, just some charisma or some excitement about you or something,…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On her work in the church (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): At the time that Reverend Gilbert was the minister, were you more involved in the church at that point in your own life? Pat Jackson (PJ): Yes, yes ‘77 [pause] I finished high school and stuff and [was] back at church and I can’t remember what, I don’t remember what I was doing. I…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the F.R. Gilbert Voices of Joy (clip)

Patricia “Pat” Jackson (PJ): He again was very instrumental in making sure that the young adults were involved and that year the young adults choir was renamed the “F.R. Gilbert Voices of Joy.” So we have several pictures of that full choir with all of those young adults. Kathryn Wall (KW): Is that…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On maintaining family homes (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): I’m sure it varied some, but when some of these older generation that had become homeowners and had been able to have the financial stability to support the church, I know when we look at the housing in this area one of the issues is trying to retain homeownership, when folks…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On rebounding from segregation (clip)

Kathryn Wall: So to contextualize a little bit this period in the church’s history, you said you were out doing your thing during this time period, what was Chapel Hill like in the mid-70s? Patricia “Pat” Jackson: Rebounding and trying to stay afloat from the segregation and uproar of the 60s in the…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - Introductions (clip)

Kathryn Wall: Hi, this is Kathryn Wall from the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, it is September 26th, 2023, and we’re here at St. Joseph’s CME Church. Patricia “Pat” Jackson: I am Pat Jackson, I am here at St. Joseph CME Church sharing communication about the life and times of St. Joseph’s. Anna…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the role of Hargraves in the community (clip)

Patricia Jackson: We always were proud to be able to, once they got to our church grounds, we were always eager to run them right down to Hargraves Center because that was our stomping grounds. That was where we had all of our fun and did all of our interactions socially with dances, the movies, and…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On ministers as a stabilizing force (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): It sounds like even if a minister’s only gonna be there, maybe potentially only be there for a year or a couple of years, that those church officers then become a stabilizing part of leadership. Pat Jackson (PJ): And that’s a great point because we've always been charged as…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - Introductions (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Alright, this is Kathryn Wall from the Marian Cheek Jackson Center. We are here at Saint Joseph’s CME Church on November 1st, 2022. Patricia “Pat” Jackson (PJ): I am Pat Jackson. I have the privilege of speaking with the archivist team this morning at Saint Joseph’s CME Church…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On Lincoln High football games (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): And when you were growing up, you know 7th grade and earlier, did lots of people in the community come out for those football games? Pat Jackson (PJ): Oh yes, that was the big event of your week, there were, during the early parts of celebrations on the UNC campus, especially…

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On Neville's Chapel Church (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): When you were going to First Baptist was your family going there as well or coming to St. Joseph’s? Pat Jackson (PJ): No, my family didn't come to St. Joseph, my family, my mother, our home church is Neville's Chapel and it’s out on 15-501 headed towards Greensboro, that's where…