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 Program from a memorial service for Orange County Training School and Lincoln High School alumni

This is a scan of the program for the 1995 memorial service for O.C.T.S. and Lincoln High alumni. Item courtesy of Mrs. Pat Jackson

 Protest

Harold Foster is the man with his fist raised and his back towards the camera, talking to the crowd. Anita Booth is on the far left, wearing a button-up collared shirt with vertical stripes. Larry Foushee is to the right of Anita Booth, in the front row of the protestors wearing a printed short…

 Protester carried by Chapel Hill police officers

Protester carried by Chapel Hill police officers.

 Protesters march and sing in front of the post office on Franklin Street.

In the front row are (from L-R) Carol Purefoy, Evelyn Walker, Patricia Atwater, and Charlie Foushee.

 Protestors march and sing in Chapel Hill

Pictured are Otto White, Ophelia Johnson, Kenny Farrington, Carolyn Farrington, Cynthia Hines, and Johnny Robinson

 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.

 Quintessential Della Pollock at Youth Cypher

Quinton Baker

 Quinton Baker - 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.

 Quinton Baker leads a practice protest march

In 1963, CORE leader Floyd McKissick asked Quinton Baker, one of his most trusted organizers, to go to Chapel Hill and teach effective nonviolence tactics to local activists. Here Baker leads a practice protest march.Quinton Baker, wearing black slacks and a light polo, leads a march training in the…

 R. D and Euzelle Smith

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…

 R. D. Smith - About his childhood, career in education, and school 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…

 R. D. Smith - 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.

R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School

"They were saying, 'We want Black history courses in this school. We feel like everybody ought to have a knowledge for what the Blacks have contributed to this society.' And yet the textbooks don't even a carry a thing about it...I don't intend for that to happen at R.D. Smith and Euzelle B. Smith's…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - Introductions (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On awards and diplomas (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On her first year in Chapel Hill (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On living outside of city limits (clip)

Euzelle Smith (ES): This area was— was not in the city limits. We had no paved streets, no city services, the nearest traffic light was at the corner of McDade and Church. No fire protection, no garbage pickup, no city services at all. And it was long after that when, I remember when, one summer, we…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On paying for housing (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On Pottersfield (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On roads and traffic (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On Smith Middle School (clip)

Euzelle Smith (ES): Smith Middle School, and this is an aerial view of the school here. This is Sewell Elementary School and Smith Middle School and that path right there goes up to Chapel Hill High School. And over here, right in this area here, the university has built a building they call the UNC…

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On the fireplace (clip)

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On the history of Northside Elementary (clip)

Alexander Stephens (AS): You said, where exactly was the Orange County Training School in relation to here? Euzelle Smith (ES): It’s right up on the hill there, what is now Northside. That school was Orange County Training School when we came here, and then in the – well, I guess I came here in ‘43…