Home > Items Browse Items (2170 total) Sort by: Title Subject Date Added Rosa McMasters Prayloe Rosa McMasters Prayloe Zora Rashkis Zora Rashkis Charlene B. Regester "I have a niece who went to Chapel Hill High and just based on some of the comments she's made to me, I have the impression that things haven't changed all that much..." - Charlene B. Regester Charlene B. Regester Mary Scroggs "With school desegregation] they tried to make it very clear that they were all students and they were all to be treated as individuals with worth. And some teachers weren't very enthusiastic about this and resigned as a matter of fact, I remember. Most of the teachers, I think, made a real… Mary Scroggs Judy Nunn Snipes "My fear is that people won't continue to...pass on the heritage. In black families I always felt that was the strength - what you learn from your ancestry you continue to pass on to your children." - Judy Nunn Snipes Judy Nunn Snipes Gertrude Nunn "Know that we do exist here, and the older people that left property for us, it’s a legacy...And I’m happy that I’m living enough to tell the story." - Gertrude Nunn Gertrude Nunn Ted Stone "If this [the freedom movement] is gonna work, somebody has to be the strong one, and it's gonna have to be you. ‘Cause we've struggled too hard to get you into this position and then, after listening to speeches from Dr. King about how to survive it without violence: I just sucked I up and kept… Ted Stone Stanley Vickers "You didn't buck the system. White folks had their place, Black folks had their place, and fighting with them was just not the thing you do. You don't attack the king's kids." - Stanley Vickers Stanley Vickers Gloria Warren "I didn’t feel that we were poor -- a lot of black people didn’t find that out until the War on Poverty – but during the time that I was growing up I didn’t feel that we were poor because we always had plenty to eat, we had clothes to wear, we could go to school, we could participate in things in… Gloria Warren Mack Foushee Mack Foushee Burnice Hackney "I grew up with my grandparents. My grandfather was a third generation farmer. We had a 100-acre farm and were pretty much self-sufficent…My grandparents have a lot of love. My grandmother was loved by hundreds if not thousands of people." - Burnice Hackney Burnice Hackney Sheila Florence "We figured that's just the way it’s supposed to be until later when integration did come about, and we came into the knowledge that it's not supposed to be that way, everybody's supposed to be equal — but being white: whites thought 'white meant right.'" - Sheila Florence Sheila Florence Shari Manning Shari Manning Joanne Peerman "We were not allowed into restaurants and nightclubs and the like. So anyone who wanted to go to wholesome family activities would go to school activities and sporting events and musical concerts given by the chorus from school. School played a very, very significant role in the black community. It… Joanne Peerman Diane Pledger Diane Pledger 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 Robert Smith "You were in the neighborhood, so sure, you always felt like somebody was sort of looking after you. You were basically in somebody else's yard." - Robert Smith Robert Smith Charles Rivers Charles Rivers Ronnie Bynum "As far as Carrboro, back in the day, at 5:00, 5:30—before it gets dark—you can’t be across the railroad track—by Rise Biscuit. … Why? Because the Klan will hurt you. You gotta fight your way in and fight your way out." - Ronnie Bynum Ronnie Bynum was born in Chapel Hill in 1959 as one of seven… Ronnie Bynum Louis Wijnberg Born in Holland in 1922 to a Jewish family, Louis Wijnberg and his twin managed to arrive in America before the German occupation of The Netherlands. While in America, he experienced a difficult upbringing away from his family who he did not fully realize at the time were enduring their own struggle… Louis Wijnberg Janie Johnson Janie Johnson Doris Wilson Etta Doris Wilson is an educator at Carrboro Early School on Lloyd St. She was born on August 13, 1936 in rural Robeson County, North Carolina, and moved to Chapel Hill into her aunt’s house when she was about 18 years old and preparing for college. Coming from a life on a farm, in a tight-knit and… Doris Wilson Protestors plant themselves in a crosswalk on Franklin Street Protesters plant themselves in a crosswalk on Franklin Street.TT Foushee is on the far right holding a sign that says “We reserve the right to refuse service to JIM CROW.” The uniformed men are police officers. Protestors plant themselves in a crosswalk on Franklin Street The Lenoir Strike: A Story of Food and Fearlessness The UNC Food Workers Strike, or what is commonly known as the Lenoir Strike, of 1969 catalyzed concern about the working conditions of cafeteria workers at UNC, many of whom were Northside residents. Led by Mary Smith and Elizabeth Brooks, the nearly year-long strike put gender and race at the… The Lenoir Strike: A Story of Food and Fearlessness Previous Page ... 56 57 58 59 60 ... Next Page
