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 Arminta Foushee - On St. Paul AME Church's 100th anniversary (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Black churches as a community (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On the founding families of the church (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): This is actually the – one of the founding families. So, Hargraves Center. Kathryn Wall (KW): Mhm. AF: Billy Hargraves, William Hargraves Center. But we called him Billy, he was a good friend of my mom’s. They were in school together, they were both jazz aficionados, they just…

 Arminta Foushee - On Vacation Bible School (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What did you all do at Bible School all day, at Vacation Bible School? Arminta Foushee (AF): Well we usually have a Bible text as theme for, it used to be like a week, and we’d have a theme, and so we had classes, we had an adult class, a young adult class, we had the teens then…

 Arminta Foushee - On Reverend Duhart (clip)

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

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

 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 class leaders at AME churches (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On the 1949 St. Paul sanctuary renovations (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On children's meals during holidays (clip)

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

 Arminta Foushee - Origins of St. Paul AME Church (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her musical abilities (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On photos of the church (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On St. Paul's success in maintaining membership (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Vacation Bible School activities (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her first solo (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 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 scanning materials (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Reverend Horton (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On choir anniversaries at St. Paul (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On being the church historian (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): I love history, and so I would end up being picked as the historian for the church. But this particular book, When Chapel Hill Was a Village by Cornelia Spencer Love, and it has information about the original churches in Chapel Hill, so of course St. Paul is included in this…