Home > Items Browse Items (2170 total) Sort by: Title Subject Date Added Saundra Dockery "I’m so glad my stepfather was a Mason, and my mother joined the Eastern Stars. I feel that part of her heart and her goodness is because of that relationship with the Masons and the Eastern Stars because they’re really good people." - Saundra Dockery Saundra Dockery Dennis Lee Farrington Jr. Dennis Lee Farrington Jr. Wanda Weaver "Change is gonna happen, but the important thing is, you be a part of the change." - Wanda Weaver Wanda Weaver Ellen Perry Ms. Ellen Perry has lived in Carrboro for 40 years. As of a fear years ago, she moved into a house that is now being updated by Medicaid, to suit the accommodations she needs. Ellen has cerebral palsy and is a powerful and passionate advocate for disabled populations, both for empowerment for… Ellen Perry Andrea Harris "At the same time I remember wanting to know why they had these water fountains that were “white” and “colored.” So my mother told me what was the difference: taste it. She made me taste both of them, right so I can see that there was no difference. Right?" - Andrea Harris Andrea Harris Do You Want It Created by Brentton Harrison when he was a member of the Marian Cheek Jackson’s inaugural season of its youth radio program, Fusion Youth Radio, and recipient of an award from PRX, this audio-documentary relies on oral histories to explore love of food and food as love. Do You Want It Headshot of Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee This is a black and white picture of Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee smiling. Headshot of Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee Food Food is nourishment. Food is family. Listen to the ways people do, think, and experience food and you’ll learn about how food makes community, sustains families, and shapes identities. Search for food and foodways—and you may also find out how to kill a chicken or to make Mama Kat's incomparable… Food Euyvonne Cotton Euyvonne Cotton Marion Phillips Marion Phillips Business Before the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 required white restaurants and businesses to open to Black patrons, Black residents served themselves, whether in Durham’s bustling Black business districts or in the Black-owned shops, restaurants, hotel, movie theatre, and pool hall on the west end of… Business Education Knowledge is power. Since Reconstruction and the establishment of the first Freedmen’s School on the western edge of Chapel Hill (where Crook’s Corner is now) in the mid-1800s, the Black community has invested in the education of its youth. Parents, teachers, and church members locked arms to… Education Hargraves Community Center You may think of a community center as something like your local YMCA. Hargraves is that and so much more. Community-built and community-led, Hargraves is the heart of Northside. In 1939, with fiscal support from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), resident brick masons and carpenters began… Hargraves Community Center Celebrations Make a joyful noise (Psalm 100). Celebration is an act of faith, triumph, unity, and renewal. Joyful rituals abound across the past, in the present, and into the future of Black Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Whether after church at the Dairy Bar, during the May Day Festival that marked the end of the… Celebrations Collene Rogers Collene was born and grew up in her family’s home on Merritt Mill Road. Her mother, Mary Neville Riggsbee, grew up on the Neville Farm in Orange County and her father, Walter Riggsbee, grew up on the Riggsbee Farm in Chatham County. In the mid-1930s, they each left home to work for the University… Collene Rogers Jane Garrett Jane Garrett Map of Pritchard's Field Map of Pritchard's Field Mae McLendon Mae was born in the little town of Red Springs, NC. Her mother moved her “kicking and screaming” to Orange County in 1964. She now cannot imagine living anywhere else. She was educated in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. She earned a B.A. in Sociology and a Master of Social Work from UNC-… Mae McLendon Jacqueline Battle Pratt Jacqueline Battle Pratt Handy Campbell "My whole family was masons...that’s what we did that’s how I came up. - Handy Campbell Handy Campbell began working as a brick mason with his father at six years old. He started his own masonry business at fifteen years old, and had a long career mentoring other masons in Chapel Hill and working on… Handy Campbell 2004 Northside Neighborhood Overlay 2004 Northside Neighborhood Overlay Black Chapel Hill / Carrboro 1944 Black Chapel Hill / Carrboro 1944 Northside in 2008 Northside in 2008 Investor Owned Properties in Northside 2000-2011 Investor Owned Properties in Northside 2000-2011 Previous Page ... 70 71 72 73 74 ... Next Page
