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 May Day Festival, 2014

 Marchers walk in freezing rain from Durham to Chapel Hill on January 12, 1964

Marchers walk in freezing rain from Durham to Chapel Hill on January 12, 1964, in support of a pending local public accommodations ordinance.

 Marchers sing freedom songs to convey their message, elevate their spirits, and boost their collective courage.

The man with his head turned to the side is Calvin Farrington. Carol Brown is standing on the left clapping, wearing a light colored collared top. Next to her is Emma Gene Davis, wearing a printed dress. Maxine Mason is on the far right.

 Marchers on Franklin Street protest at segregated Colonial Drug

Marchers on Franklin Street protest at segregated Colonial Drug.

 Mama Kat on how to make her amazing pound cake

 Lincoln High Silhouette, composed by Julie Mao

Lincoln High Silhouette, composed by Julie Mao, inspired by an interview with David Mason Jr., held in the Jackson Center Oral History Trust

 Lincoln High Marching Band.

 Lincoln High Football Team.

 Lifetime resident and community scholar, Kathy Atwater, speaks at the culminating dinner of the Civil Rights in Chapel Hill weekend celebration, 2012.  

 Leslie Shannon responds with her own photo project

Half a century after the February 8, 1964 protest, inspired by Jim Wallace’s photograph, Leslie Shannon held a demonstration with her friends at the same spot on Franklin St. They stopped traffic as well as part of a continued fight for equality. Leslie’s photograph charges to continue to honor…

 Katie Mimmack’s visual interpretation of Keith Edward’s oral history.

 Harold Foster, among those welcoming Dr. Martin Luther King during King’s visit to Roberson Street (Hargraves) Center in 1960.

 Harold Foster rallies demonstrators at St. Joseph CME

Harold Foster rallies demonstrators in front of St. Joseph CME church before marching through Chapel Hill.

First row left to right:
Harold Foster, Anita Booth, Larry Foushee, Wilbert Jones, (unknown), (unknown child), Bernard Foushee, Maxene Mason

 Harold Foster and others pointing to a segregated restaurant

Harold Foster and other marchers with the Chapel Hill Freedom movement point to a segregated restaurant.

 Golden Glazed St. Joseph’s by Karen Cheney, Chapel Hill High School.

 Garrett Young-Wright responds artistically to photos and oral histories about the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill.

 First-graders from Northside Elementary march from St. Joseph C.M.E. church to Northside school

First-graders from Northside Elementary march from St. Joseph C.M.E. church to Northside school as part of a collaborative curriculum with the Marian Cheek Jackson Center.

 Emma Beck's Civil Rights Tapestry

Emma Beck transforms local history into her Civil Rights Tapestry.

 Emma Anderson listened to an interview with James Foushee and responded artistically in her piece.

 Dr. Reginald Hildebrand, a professor of African-American Studies at UNC and long-time member of St. Paul’s A.M.E., stands in front of his church and the new Greenbridge development, 2010.

 Do’s and Don’ts of Picketing by Ezra Weiss.

 Demonstrators march down Franklin Street in protest of public accommodations laws.

Several weeks after the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen failed to pass a public accomodation ordinance, the Chapel Hill Freedom Movement retaliated with a series of sit-ins and marches. On February 8, 1964, demonstrations like this one on Franklin Street effectively disrupted the town.

 Demonstrators congregate at St. Joseph CME Church before a march.

Demonstrators congregate at St. Joseph CME Church before a march.   Reinvigorated by the March on Washington, activist rallied across the country, including in Chapel Hill, where participants often number in the hundreds.

 Demonstrators arrested at Colonial Drug Sit-in

Demonstrators, including Walter Mitchell (center), are arrested during a night sit-in blocking the door to Colonial Drug.   Members of owner John Carswell’s family and a friend watch from the inside.