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Sutton's Drug Store

"Most of the news that came out of that was the kind of word of mouth. You know, we're going to march in front of Sutton's today and the word would just kind of come, and after it was over-. I marched in some of these places." - Stanley Vickers Sutton's Drug Store opened in the Strowd Building at…

Sylvester Hackney

 Sylvester Hackney - On growing up in Chapel Hill and school integration

“For me, high school was a good experience because I had my friends. We were in this big environment, and we had to stick together. We learned to love each other and care about each other. We didn’t know it, but we were nurturing each other.” - Sylvester Hackney Sylvester Hackney, a native of rural…

 T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala

Minnie James, Helen Redd, and Grace Franklin celebrate together. Ms. Franklin hosted the T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala at her home on Lindsey Street.

 T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Party

The T.P. Duhart Board gathered to celebrate Christmas together at Ms. Grace Franklin's house on Lindsey Street. From left to right: Ms. Coble, Ms. Drucilla Suggs, Ms. Doris Cotton, Ms. Maude Oldham, Ms. Louise Hargraves, Ms. Pearl Caldwell, Ms. Helen Redd, Ms. Grace Franklin, Ms. Coy Hargraves, and…

Teachers, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs - Faith (Min. Robert Lee Campbell) Clip 1

Teachers, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs - Faith (Min. Robert Lee Campbell) Clip 2

Teachers, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs - Faith (Sen. Valerie Foushee)

Ted Stone

"If this [the freedom movement] is gonna work, somebody has to be the strong one, and it's gonna have to be you. ‘Cause we've struggled too hard to get you into this position and then, after listening to speeches from Dr. King about how to survive it without violence: I just sucked I up and kept…

 Ted Stone - On his childhood, values, 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…

 Terrance Foushee

Terrell’s Creek Missionary Baptist Church

Terrell’s Creek Missionary Baptist Church is located on Old Greensboro Road in Chapel Hill, NC.

 Terrence Foushee - On AmeriCorps (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): So, after camp I applied to the Americorps program. Americorps in Triple C, the National Civilian Community Corps, which is the only team-based Americorps program, where for a year you serve in different cities, different towns across the country for about two months at a time…

 Terrence Foushee - On becoming a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What kind of flipped that switch to make you say, “You know what, I think I’m gonna go back to school and become an English teacher.” Terrence Foushee (TF): [chuckles] A few, a few experiences. So the first experience was after I dropped out from college while I was trying to…

 Terrence Foushee - On Black women teachers (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you feel like the Black women teachers that you’ve mentioned that they were more inclined to have those relationships with your parents than some of your other teachers? Terrence Foushee: Oh yes. I think part of it – and I could be making this up it’s just a general…

 Terrence Foushee - On Blue Ribbon Scholars (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What kinds of things do the Blue Ribbon Scholars who have the individual mentors, what sorts of the things do they tend to, what are some of the things that they do together, with their mentor? Terrence Foushee (TF): A lot of times the mentors bring their scholars, and it also…

 Terrence Foushee - On classroom engagement (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): It seems like English class, thinking back to my own experiences in English class, like there's a lot of story in English class, you’re talking about the stories that are in the literature, whether you're talking about people telling their own story, students recording their own…

 Terrence Foushee - On Durham Tech (clip)

Terrence Foushee: So, after doing two years of AmeriCorps, I came back, and I knew that I wanted to go back to school. So I would say probably within a month of me returning home I applied to Durham Tech, to transfer into Durham Tech. I think I came home in August, maybe it was the beginning of…

 Terrence Foushee - On eliminating the achievement gap (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): … in part to try to address the achievement gap, what else do you think needs to happen in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system to reduce that gap and eliminate that gap in the future? Terrence Foushee (TF): What I think, and I don’t know how this happens, but it’s the…

 Terrence Foushee - On extracurricular activities (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you participate in any kind of extracurricular things in school? Terrence Foushee (TF): Yes, I played JV basketball my freshman year, I was terrible, but I was on the team so it was like one of those great moments, but I was also in a few clubs. I was in the Future Business…

 Terrence Foushee - On finding balance as a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): If you [Gillian] have any questions, I’d love for you to jump in, and also, if there’s anything you [Terrence Foushee] want to add before we wrap up that would be great. Gillian Kepley (GK): You had mentioned a while ago about your sleep schedule, and stuff like that, when you…

 Terrence Foushee - On his educational background (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): Alright so, first off I was educated here in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools starting at Frank Porter Graham for daycare and then transitioning to Sewell Elementary School for preschool through fifth grade. Actually through third grade, and I was part of the first class of…

 Terrence Foushee - On his favorite teachers (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you, in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System, have any teachers that really stand out to you? Terrence Foushee (TF): Yeah, so at the preschool level I loved my preschool teacher, her name is skipping me right now, but I just remember her being an incredibly nice teacher. One…

 Terrence Foushee - On his first year of teaching (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you remember your first day in the classroom as a teacher? Terrence Foushee (TF): I don’t even know! So I remember my room. I remember that my first year, that I had to share my room with another teacher but it was a blur. I know that I was sweating profusely and that it was a…