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David Caldwell, Jr. - On the history of the Rogers Road community (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): For Rogers Road we were looking at a mitigation committee that we are working with. One thing they did agree is that, yeah, we’ve got sidewalks and streetlights, but its twenty years down the road. So do you really feel like…
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Marian Cheek Jackson - On community history, family history. and the University of North Carolina
"You have to keep going." - Marian Cheek Jackson Mrs. Marian Cheek Jackson begins with a description of prominent Black businesses that used to exist in the African American community, (including Mason's grocery store); St. Joseph's Christian…
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Clayton Weaver - On his parents, education, and Northside
“I tell you young people, stay up with your peers. Never lose track of them.” - Clayton Weaver Weaver was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC on Cameron Avenue. His great-uncle bought their family home in 1929 for $3000. He went to school at Northside…
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Saundra Dockery - Speaking about her mother
This interview was part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s History Potluck series. Saundra Dockery, is a Northside native and daughter of Katherine Council better known as “Mama Kat”. Ms. Dockery shares photos and documents from her mother’s life…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles David Brooks - On their family history and business
"They had a very high reputation in the community. They did excellent work. One thing that my father always said, that when they finished their job, they didn’t have to go back…They did quality work, quality construction." -Vernelle Brooks Jones "I…
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Allen Buansi - On his environmental justice work (clip)
Kathryn Wall: And you’ve done some work right here in Chapel Hill around the RENA community and the landfill here. Could you speak a little bit about that? Allen Buansi: Sure. Absolutely. So, just going back to law school, back, I guess, during 2013.…
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Dolores Clark - On the history of Black builders in her family
"They were devout Christians...and so, we survived. We survived by faith. They had a lot of faith." - Dolores Clark This interview is part of a series on Black builders in Orange County. Dolores Clark, a long-term resident of Chapel Hill, explains…
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Alice Battle - On Lincoln High School and Black businesses in Chapel Hill
This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former…
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Eugene Farrar - On Black builders
"The only way our history can get told right, is that we have to tell it." - Eugene Farrar In this oral history, Eugene Farrar gives an account of growing up in Chapel Hill as well as his lineage of Black builders. Farrar discusses his uncle, James…
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Albert and Eloise Williams - On community, faith, race, and being a firefighter
"As jobs became available… [People] came to Chapel Hill. University jobs [were] plentiful. - Rev. Albert Williams Rev. Albert Williams is the minister at Staunton Memorial CME Church in Pittsboro. He is a lifetime resident of the area and was the…
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A Note on “Northside”
In From the Rock Wall, we have chosen to use “Black Chapel Hill/Carrboro” to refer to all of the discrete and connected places where Black families settled and grew communities in southern Orange County, North Carolina. But many of the people you’ll…
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Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather Jacob James and St. Paul AME Church
"He [Jacob James] was just very well respected here in Chapel Hill. I remember when he passed in Chapel Hill, I was living in Washington DC. It was probably one of the largest funeral servicec I’ve attended at St. Paul [AME Church]. They had to bring…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career, community, and the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
"...and the thing about it was that you got to know there were very few activists that really knew what was going on with the enforcement and the same thing very few enforcers know what’s going on with the activists so it just made everyone—all of us…
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Willis Farrington - On growing up in Northside, local businesses, and Northside neighbors
"Hargraves used to be my home away from home." - Minister Willis Farrington This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series. Minister Willis Farrington, an associate pastor at S. Joseph CME Church, grew up in Chapel…
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Paul Caldwell - On school memories, family achievements, and the importance of education
"‘Cause I can go fishing and I can sit back and get my hook in the water and if I don’t catch nothing, I’m just as happy as I can be. But you’ve got me, my fishing hook, and the sky, and that great big old pond of water, and it’s so quiet." - Paul…
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St. Joseph C.M.E. Church
St. Joseph C.M.E. Church, located at 510 W. Rosemary in Chapel Hill, was founded in 1898. Its mother church was Hamlet Chapel CME Church, Pittsboro, NC and it started as Cotton Chapel C.M.E Church (named for the late Mr. Henry Cotton, a church…
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Albert Washington - On his business, church, and growing up in Northside
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Oral History Trust. Albert (Bruce) Washington, III grew up in Chatham County with his mother and in Northside with his father and extended family. He was an only child, but grew up in the…
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Kathy Atwater - On food
Ms. Atwater gives an overview of food access in the community when she was growing up and how her family’s attitudes toward food have developed over the course of her life. Starting with a discussion of her mother’s kitchen and garden, she describes…![Undated_DavisPhotos_NavyBand_[CC_IMG_0014].jpeg](https://fromtherockwall-files--prod.s3.amazonaws.com/square_thumbnails/Music/Undated_DavisPhotos_NavyBand_%5BCC_IMG_0014%5D.jpg "Undated_DavisPhotos_NavyBand_[CC_IMG_0014].jpeg")
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Music
The historically Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro have a long and storied musical legacy. Music has played a tremendous role in practices of faith in the area going back to the 19th century and before. In a 2007 oral history, Mrs.…
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James "Jim" Wallace - Speaking about the Civil Rights Movement and his photography
"...if everyone in the student body at Chapel Hill couldn’t walk across Franklin Street and be able to eat anywhere they wanted, that that just simply wasn’t right." - Jim Wallace In this interview, Wallace speaks about Civil rights in Chapel Hill,…
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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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David Caldwell - On the difficulties between the local government and Rogers-Eubank community concerning the landfill
This interview is part of an SOHP project called Rural South: Backways: Understanding Segregation in the Rural South. The interviews, 2014-, were conducted in the rural piedmont region and eastern North Carolina about the often hidden forces of…
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Marian Cheek Jackson - On the Jackson Center and her vision for Northside
Marian Cheek Jackson has resided in Chapel Hill for her entire life. Much of the life she knows has involved her staying in, participating in, and protecting Northside. The Marian Cheek Jackson Center was named after her because of the vision she had…
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