Albert Williams – Rebbish Carrboro (clip)
Interviewed by Rob Stephens on October 8, 2009
Albert Williams: Things were segregated. That’s why I’m saying the people in Carrboro don’t know what was going on. When you cross that railroad track at night, that was the white side of town. You didn’t have no business in Carrboro.
Rob Stephens: I’ve heard that.
AW: Unless you lived out there. The police department was like that. Just… rebbish.
RS: What’d you call them, rebbish?
AW: I call them rebbish. That was the word. “Rebbish.”
RS: Rebbish, what does that mean? Rebels?
AW: Rebels, but they used the term “rebbish.” That was back then, you see.
RS: So you would cross into that section of town?
AW: Yeah, we went to Carrboro. Wasn’t no big thing. We shopped along that strip, all along in there. Then you had some Blacks that lived in the Carrboro area. Everybody knew everybody, walking or riding. When it worked… everybody knew everybody, it was kind of a community, Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
