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 Gloria Mason Williams - 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.

Gloria Mason Williams

 Lavisha Williams - On food, cooking, and eating

Lavisha Williams grew up with her maternal grandparents as part of the household, and learned to cook watching them and her parents. Most of the foods and meals she grew up with had been passed down from her great-grandparents without cookbooks or precise recipes. Most of what she ate with her…

 Thomas Williams - 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.

Thomas Williams

 Doris Wilson - On racial inequality, education, and faith

Doris Wilson was born in 1936 in Robeson County, North Carolina and moved to Chapel Hill in the mid 1950s. She has lived in her same home on Church St. in Chapel Hill ever since. In the interview, she discusses the transition to Chapel Hill when she was college-aged and the first times she…

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 - Intro (clip)

Doris Wilson (DW): I bought her out, and I’m still there. Will Vaughan (WV): You’re still there now? Yeah. So, yeah, so I guess, what memories do you have from the early parts in this house that you’re in now? DW: Well I completed my education, you wanna hear that piece? I completed my education, I…

 Doris Wilson - On demographics (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On the rock wall (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On apartments (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On family (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On accreditation (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On administrators (clip)

 Doris Wilson - On an interesting life (clip)

 A young neighbor enjoys community festivities

A young neighbor enjoys community festivities.

 Chapel Hill High Student Artwork

Chapel Hill High student reflects artistically on the content of a Civil Rights Workshop at Chapel Hill High in 2013. The workshop is part of the Jackson Center's Learning across Generations curriculum.

 First grade student's artwork

A first grade student shares what he learned from a tour of Northside this Fall as part of the Learning Across Generations Curriculum and Action.

 “Eat at Joe's Black and White” Banner

As they march from St. Joseph CME church toward downtown Chapel Hill, local African American students, religious leaders, and UNC students rally behind a banner declaring “Eat at Joe’s Black & White.”

 A demonstrator is attacked at Watts Restaurant during a sit-in in Chapel Hill, NC.

 A slogan painted on the door of a truck in Carrboro, NC.

A slogan painted on the door of a truck in Carrboro, NC.

 A third grade student at Northside Elementary, reflects on what she learned in a workshop with Jackson Center Staff.

 A UNC representative of the Student Peace Union pickets the segregated College Cafe.