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 Arminta Foushee - On church organization notes (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On class leaders at AME churches (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On doing church announcements (clip)

Arminta Foushee: But I also remember, I don't know how I got pegged with this job. So in most Black churches on Sunday mornings you have the announcements that are read and said, and so I did the announcements every Sunday from the time I was 12 years old until I went off to college. And I always…

 Arminta Foushee - On growing up near Franklin Street (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her earliest memories of the sanctuary (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her family history and grandparents (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her family's college attendance (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you go to college in DC, then? Arminta Foushee (AF): No, I actually went, I’m a proud Aggie, I’m a North Carolina A&T State University Aggie, the number one HBCU in the country. No, my husband actually did. He went to Howard University, and my former husband went to…

 Arminta Foushee - On her first solo (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather Jacob James and St. Paul AME Church

"He [Jacob James] was just very well respected here in Chapel Hill. I remember when he passed in Chapel Hill, I was living in Washington DC. It was probably one of the largest funeral servicec I’ve attended at St. Paul [AME Church]. They had to bring in chairs, they put chairs in the aisle and over…

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather working in Mexico (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather, Jacob Monroe James (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's faith (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's job as a chef (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's passing (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's role as a trustee (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's style (clip)

Arminta Foushee: My grandfather was funny. He wore a shirt and tie every day. He polished his shoes before wearing them every day. So he was always dressed like a perfect gentleman every day that he was not working. And he’d take off that chef’s uniform. He’d be in a crisp shirt and tie ‘til the day…

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's taxi business (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): And actually, my grandfather was head of the Board of Trustees at St. Paul and he was one of the trustees that was hugely instrumental in the renovation of the church, breaking it and putting the stained glass windows in and air conditioning. Kathryn Wall (KW): Mhmm AF:…

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandmother serving as a delegate (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): She would usually be appointed as a delegate to the annual conferences. They used to be held in June but now they’re in May of each year. And she and her sisters, they would get chosen to be delegates as well, her sisters that were still on Lake James and so they would meet at…

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandmother's cooking (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandmother's role as a class leader (clip)

Arminta Foushee: And my grandmother was a class leader, and you’d just be responsible as a class leader for, they would divide membership and give them to different class leaders, and they were responsible for checking on these people throughout the week. If someone were sick, they were responsible…

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandparent's cooking (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did your grandmother do most of the cooking–when you were–on these Sunday family meals, was she the cook in the family or did your mom do a lot of cooking? Arminta Foushee (AF): My grandmother did most of the cooking, but my grandfather would also cook meals too. He liked to–. KW:…

 Arminta Foushee - On her Great-Aunt Viola (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her great-grandparents (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her musical abilities (clip)