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William Gattis - Reading the introduction (clip)

Interviewed on March 26, 2025

Patricia “Pat” Jackson: …now where is this place?

William Gattis: (Reading from the Wikipedia entry in italics) Pottersfield, also called Pottersville, was a large historically Black neighborhood located in downtown Chapel Hill–No way!–downtown Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was originally built over a hundred years ago to be home for those working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These workers included the stonemasons– they constructed the famous stone walls encircling the university campus. And those that carried water from the old well to students in the dorm. And then we get to the 1950s. Well, no.

William Gattis - Reading the introduction (clip)

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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 - Reading the introduction (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/william-gattis-reading-the-introduction-clip.

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