Oral History

Dr. Courtney Rivard - Questions (clip)

Interviewed on March 26, 2025

Dr. Courtney Rivard: So I think this is helping us figure out how to write about the boundaries because they love the maps in Wikipedia. The second is about timeline, so that’s the other thing that they really would like. And you clearly and very poignantly pointed out the misrepresentation, which we need to rectify. So, could we talk about like… I don’t know if this is appropriate, so push back if it is not, like epics or like timeframes, could we stage it in different timeframes, right? Because Mr. Gattis you were saying, it’s too glossed over and it’s too fast to understand the extreme hardship and also the intricacies of it. So if I’m looking at it, right, we have basically early 20th century, students, early 20th century and then late 20th century and that’s just not enough. So, how could we better chunk up that time?

Dr. Courtney Rivard - Questions (clip)

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Oral history interview of Rivard, Courtney on March 26, 2025 at St. Joseph CME Church Fellowship Hall, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Dr. Courtney Rivard - Questions (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/dr-courtney-rivard-questions-clip.

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