Oral History

Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth

Interviewed by Susan Simone on February 21, 1998

This interview is part of a group of interviews conducted by Susan Simone exploring the lives and struggle of various members of the Northside community: a historically black and primarily residential neighborhood located immediately northwest of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and downtown Chapel Hill, NC. The community has long been involved in a struggle to prevent developers from buying up property to build new and expensive housing developments that would break up the black community and drive low-income residents out of Chapel Hill, as Northside contains the majority of the remaining low-income housing in the city.

Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth

Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth

Oral history interview of Booth, Charles conducted by Simone, Susan on February 21, 1998.

Citation: Southern Oral History Program, “Ruth, Charles, and Anita Booth,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 24, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/ruth-charles-and-anita-booth.

Rights: Open for research. The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) welcomes non-commercial use and access that qualifies as fair use to all unrestricted interview materials in the collection. The researcher must cite and give proper credit to the SOHP. The SOHP requests that the researcher informs the SOHP as to how and where they are using the material.

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