Oral History

Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the timeline (clip)

Interviewed on March 26, 2025

Pat Jackson: Well if you, For the chunking up, I guess, what I’m thinking and Mr. Gattis, Kathy, you know, hear me out, if we’re listening, and want people to know about the Potter’s Field, what it really was,then it has to be stated what the proper narrative of what it was, what it is now, how it got there, because this area was when our parents were born in the 1920s. This area was when they were children. They were living, they were stomping in this town. So, this has to reflect some parts of their lives. Moving to the 20th century comes us in the 60s, early 50s and 60s, and then coming to where we are…well then you are here with the 80s and then now I see you are in 1920, I mean 2020, excuse me. So if that…

Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the timeline (clip)

Tags: ,

Oral history interview of Jackson, Patricia "Pat" on March 26, 2025 at St. Joseph CME Church Fellowship Hall, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the timeline (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/patricia-pat-jackson-on-the-timeline-clip.

"We’re writing our own history, thank you!"

Ms. Esphur Foster

Want to add in?  Have a different view?  What do you think? Want to upload your own photos or documents?

History is not the past.  It’s the sense we make of the past now. Click below to RESPOND—and be part of making history today.

Respond