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Arminta Foushee - On Tar Heel Taxi #1 (clip)

Interviewed by Kathryn Wall on September 29, 2022

Arminta Foushee - On Tar Heel Taxi #1 (clip)

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Oral history interview of Foushee, Arminta conducted by Wall, Kathryn on September 29, 2022 at Home of Arminta Foushee, Durham, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Arminta Foushee - On Tar Heel Taxi #1 (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 21, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/arminta-foushee-on-tar-heel-taxi-1.

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"He [Jacob James] was just very well respected here in Chapel Hill. I remember when he passed in Chapel Hill, I was living in Washington DC. It was probably one of the largest funeral servicec I’ve attended at St. Paul [AME Church]. They had to bring in chairs, they put chairs in the aisle and over…

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