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Curtis Harper

"[Churches] were the institutions that Black people owned. They didn’t own school buildings; they didn’t own anything where they could meet."

- Curtis Harper

Curtis Harper - On church, teaching at UNC, desegregation, and faith-based activism

Curtis Harper is a member of the Church of Reconciliation, which he joined in the 1970s when he moved to Chapel Hill. Harper speaks about his upbringing in a community where the only secure place African Americans could meet was in church. He describes his work teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; desegregation of Chapel Hill institutions; the legacy of faith-based activism.

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