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 David Lyles - On his faith

"See, all you got to do is wait for the change. You have the faith that that change is gonna happen. I can’t see it, I can’t feel it, I can’t taste it, but I know it’s there and it’s coming possible for me." - David Lyles This interview is a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s faith series. In…

David Lyles

 David Kirkman - On his childhood, school integration, and career as a lawyer

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…

David Kirkman

 David Caldwell, Jr., - On the Caldwell family's military history (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. and Kathryn Wall - On the H. Lee Waters films (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - Target practice (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On Youth Involvement in the Rogers-Eubanks Landfill Removal (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On working the concession stand (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On working at the sheriff's office (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On who suffers because of landfills (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On what he wants to see in other communities (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On visitors from China touring the Rogers-Eubanks community (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On tobacco culture (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On things his father taught him (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the Walter and Duncan families (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the Rogers Road neighborhood (clip)

Darius Scott (DS): What brought you guys from Merritt Mill to Rogers Road when you were in the third grade? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Oh! Like most of the people out here, we had the opportunity to buy a home. DS: Um-hmm. DC: There was only about thirteen houses out here when we moved out here, and…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the landfill's environmental impact (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): This was a dirt road, red, dusty, clay. All of this was cornfields, like I said, and a few houses, things, mostly a farming community. And when they did it, the road was so bad that it was tearing up the city s trucks, so they had to pave it sooner than they wanted to. So,…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the landfill problems (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the integration of Lincoln High School, family, and civil rights

In this interview, the second of two 2017 interviews conducted by Andrea Wuerth, David Caldwell, Jr., discusses his experiences in the newly-integrated Chapel Hill High School. He remembers the difficult early years, describing his accidental role in the riots that took place in Fall 1971, his…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the initial promises about the landfill (clip)

Darius Scott (DS): Okay. And you mentioned the landfill a bit a moment ago. Could you describe the moments leading up to the landfill coming to Rogers Road? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Oh, gosh! We had, basically, it was, like I said, we were a little country neighborhood. They came into my father s…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the importance of history work (clip)

Della Pollock (DP): So say one of your kids–he loves you and you love them–and they say to you, “But Mr. Caldwell, all that’s in the past. Why so worried about that? That’s all passed, that’s all over.” What do you say to them? David Caldwell (DC): Mmh, hmm. [Pause] DP: Because, I think that’s how a…