William Gattis - On your own narrative (clip)

Interviewed on March 26, 2025

William Gattis: But the upshot of the whole thing is that you get to write your own narrative and that’s why you have the walls. And I mentioned this before. You have Windy Hill is a wall of your house. Northside is a wall of your house, or Potter’s Field. Tin Top is one of the sides of your house. South Lane is another side of your house. Pine Knolls is another side of your house. But in that house, you get to write the narratives. And you are professionals, you’re teachers, you’re stone masons, you’re laborers, you have your own homes to grow into in a community and see people who are professionals with their own homes. A Black Wall Street.

Tags: audio clip, Potter's Field, Pottersfield

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

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “William Gattis - On your own narrative (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/william-gattis-on-your-own-narrative-clip.