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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 - On his childhood, school integration, and career as a lawyer
David Caldwell - On the difficulties between the local government and Rogers-Eubank community concerning the landfill
This interview is part of an SOHP project called Rural South: Backways: Understanding Segregation in the Rural South. The interviews, 2014-, were conducted in the rural piedmont region and eastern North Carolina about the often hidden forces of structural and institutional discrimination that have…
David Caldwell - On the difficulties between the local government and Rogers-Eubank community concerning the landfill
David Caldwell - On the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community
“That’s one reason we’re trying so hard to document everything. Because if you lose your identity, you lose your community…You lose your community, whether it’s from development or people buying it, you lose your identity also. So either way, if you lose either one, you’ve lost completely.”
- David…
David Caldwell - On the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community
Curtis Harper - On church, teaching at UNC, desegregation, and faith-based activism
Curtis Harper is a member of the Church of Reconciliation, which he joined in the 1970s when he moved to Chapel Hill. Harper speaks about his upbringing in a community where the only secure place African Americans could meet was in church. He describes his work teaching at the University of North…
Curtis Harper - On church, teaching at UNC, desegregation, and faith-based activism
Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and integration
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…
Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and integration
Clementine Self - On her childhood, civil rights, education, and school integration
“I was going for my education, I was really going to make a statement that I’ve integrated this school–or desegregated, it was never integrated–desegregated the school. That was my goal.”
- Clementine Self
Clementine Self is a former student of Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses…
Clementine Self - On her childhood, civil rights, education, and school integration
Clarke Egerton - On his education, band, and teachers
"It was a chance for the students to say “look mom what I can do” and it gave them so much pride to be in a marching band, and everybody was just delightful. We all stepped together, we played music together, and it’s just a wonderful feeling. I just get goosebumps thinking about it right now.
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Clarke Egerton - On his education, band, and teachers
Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth
This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives and struggle of various members of the Northside community: a historically black and primarily residential neighborhood located immediately northwest of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and…
Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth
Charles Rivers - On desegregation in Chapel Hill
This interview is part of a project conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the process of creating integrated institutions; and…
Charles Rivers - On desegregation in Chapel Hill
Charlene Smith - On her childhood, parents, education, student behavior, school integration
“What we had students don’t get now as easily. There’s something missing now for many of the kids…when I attended Lincoln there were Black role models around me everywhere…there were Black people around you, which you always had a sense of family, and a sense of community, a sense of safety, and a…
Charlene Smith - On her childhood, parents, education, student behavior, school integration
Charlene B. Regester - On growing up in Chapel Hill and school integration
This interview is part of a project conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the process of creating integrated institutions; and…
Charlene B. Regester - On growing up in Chapel Hill and school integration
Burnice Hackney - On family, school integration, and inequality in Chapel Hill
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…
Burnice Hackney - On family, school integration, and inequality in Chapel Hill
Betty King - On growing up in Chapel Hill, family, and Lincoln High School
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…
Betty King - On growing up in Chapel Hill, family, and Lincoln High School
Alice Battle - On Lincoln High School and Black businesses in Chapel Hill
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…
Alice Battle - On Lincoln High School and Black businesses in Chapel Hill
Alice Battle - On her experiences in Chapel Hill before integration
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…
Alice Battle - On her experiences in Chapel Hill before integration
Charles Rivers
Charles Rivers
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
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
Diane Pledger
Diane Pledger
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
Shari Manning
Shari Manning
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
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
Mack Foushee
Mack Foushee