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The Porches of Northside
The front porch. The space between inside and outside, private and public worlds. A place for friends and family to gather and to renew the essential connections that make up community. A place to sit and watch out; a place from which to receive…
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Celebrations
Make a joyful noise (Psalm 100). Celebration is an act of faith, triumph, unity, and renewal. Joyful rituals abound across the past, in the present, and into the future of Black Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Whether after church at the Dairy Bar, during…
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David Caldwell, Jr.
A Chapel Hill native, David Caldwell is the Project Director and Community Organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association located in northern Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As part of his position, he collaborates with UNC in research and…
Oral History
David Caldwell Jr. - On Community Resourcefulness (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr (DC).: …so that’s the difference in the fight. Blanche Brown (BB): And it’s interesting, because you were talking about how your family has given so many years of service, but it’s almost like you’re still doing it. Because this is…
Person
Willie Mae Patterson
"My granddad and my grandma they always had a garden. We grew up with a garden and they canned our food. We had a lot and they would can the vegetables, had a lot of tomatoes so they canned the tomatoes, and string beans, so you didn’t have to go…
Oral History
Carolyn Briggs - On the construction of the A.D. Clark Pool and lifeguards (clip)
Carolyn Briggs: Yeah, My name is Carolyn Briggs. I grew up on Merritt Mill Road and before the ground was built, Ms. Ethel Clark and Ms. Rebecca Clark, you had to do essays why you saw fit to put a pool here. So, we wrote a lot of essays so that they…
Oral History
Nate Davis - On His Northside Upbringing (clip)
Alexander Stephens: And where did you grow up exactly? Nate Davis: I grew up…it was called Lincoln Lane, it was not called Lincoln Lane, School Lane. School Lane and School Lane was off Church Street. As I matter of fact, I could sit on my front…
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Waters Films Showing Black Residents in Chapel Hill in 1939 (Reel 2)
Photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee from 1936-1942 to film small communities. These videos, which he named “Movies of Local People” aired in local movie theaters, often before…
Oral History
Earl Bynum - On the addition to Hargraves (clip)
Earl Bynum: Well, like I said, I was a little small guy, so I didn’t know really what all was going on. I remember when they added the second half onto Hargraves Center, the back part that they had there. Because, let me tell you, I used to go over…
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Rock Wall
"A lot of people, when they would walk from Northside...walking back, they would just sit on the rock wall right there in front of [Willie Mae Patterson's] house. We used to sit there and just reflect on life and rest." - Keith Edwards, Civil Rights…
Oral History
Cleo Caldwell - On her family's musical talent, growing up in Northside, and returning to the neighborhood
In this interview, Cleo Caldwell, 53, discusses growing up in the Northside neighborhood surrounded by extended family and, in particular, her cousins who became policemen and civil rights activists. Cleo’s mother and sisters were known for their…
Oral History
Thomas Bell - On growing up in Northside, involvement with the community, and the Civil Rights Movement
Thomas Bell, a long time Northside community member and employee at Hillsborough Prison, attended Lincoln High School immediately before the desegregation of Chapel Hill public schools. He reflects on growing up in the Northside (walking to high…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - On RENA (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Right now I m the project director and the community organizer. And what I do is special projects that come up, I pretty much organize and get them going and get the community organized into participating. We do a Backpack…
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Kay Gattis - On her life as a caregiver and her faith
And that’s my life, it's all about Ms. Kay, and I’m still going to help until the day I die. If they need help, I’m going to do it. - Kay Gattis Ms. Kay Gattis describes her upbringing in Chapel Hill, with her parents and eight siblings. She…
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The Rock Wall
When you jumped off the rock wall in Northside, you felt like it was fifty feet high!” - David Caldwell, Jr. At the front edge of the Bradshaw/Patterson home at the corner of Cotton and McDade Streets is a low rock wall that Mr. Atlas Bradshaw and…
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Nate Davis - On the Hargraves Community Center
"...people in the community got together and said we need this facility. - Nate Davis Nate Davis remembers that during his childhood, the Hargraves Community Center as a safe space to hang out and play sports with friends, and now, after years of…
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Reginald D. Smith, II - On his parents career in education
"Are you learning something today that’s going to help you tomorrow?" - Reginald D. Smith, II In this interview, Reginald D. Smith, II reflects on his upbringing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as the son of two educators. He discusses his family’s…
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Gracie Webb - On changes to the neighborhood and the effects on senior community members
"All of this was Black, all of this. All the way down Gomain was Black...All of the people who lived here weren’t nothing but Black." - Gracie Webb In the interview Mrs. Webb discusses her neighborhood and describes how the house that she grew up in…
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Brentton Harrison - On Hargraves Center
"Come to Hargraves. Come build community either with myself or someone else. Build community because at the end of the day, community is kind of the only answer. - Brentton Harrison Brentton Harrison has been in Chapel Hill since he was nine and…
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Janie Johnson - On her home, family, elder care, and real estate
"My momma bought a house, four walls that did not have running water, did not have a bathroom, and did not have a kitchen sink. She walked through the door and began working on that house and every year we are still doing renovations to that house.…
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Keith Edwards - On the importance of food
“Sundays were always a special day. That whole day was made into just like a holiday. - Keith Edwards This interview includes Keith Edwards’s viewpoint on the importance of food in the home and in the community. She recalls specific recipes in the…
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Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
"You couldn't have the expression of anger because you knew what this person was doing. Because your actions would not have come back on you, it would have come back on your parents." - Keith Edwards Edwards discusses her life in Carrboro and how she…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career and community
“You made a mistake, but learn from it. Matter of fact, if you learn from it, it’s not a mistake." - David Caldwell, Jr. David Caldwell Jr. gives an overview of his life in Chapel Hill and his experiences in the US Army and his other occupations. He…
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