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David Caldwell, Jr. - On his parents, civil rights, and law enforcement
In this interview, David Caldwell, Jr., begins by discussing past generations of Caldwells that came from Chatham County and lived first on Merritt Mill Road, then Durham, then Northside. His family moved to Rogers Road in 1963 when land became…
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Waters Films Showing Black Residents in Chapel Hill in 1939 (Reel 1)
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…
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Ronnie Bynum - Speaking about racial tensions and his family history
In this interview, Ronnie Bynum discusses his family history, including the career of his grandmother as a midwife and the changes she witnessed on Airport Road, which is now MLK Boulevard. He talks about how much he learned from his grandmother, and…
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John Mason - On his childhood, family, education, and discrimination
This interview is part of a project conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and undergraduate students in a 2001 oral history course. Topics include Chapel Hill's efforts to end racial segregation in the public schools; the…
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Paula Brittian - On her dad's work as a contractor, her activism, and living in Chapel Hill
"[There’s] just a lot of history here, and a lot of people just died out or sold out, and I think it’s sad. I think it’s really sad because we don’t have anything anymore, so I was like, 'You know what? They are not taking my house, okay? [Even] if I…
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Henry Atwater and Charles Weaver - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"Chapel Hill and Carrboro have been fighting each other for a long time. Ever since I was born. About where the city limits are, what they do, and how they’re going to do this. That’s why you’ve got the mayor of Chapel Hill and the Mayor of Carrboro.…
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Minister Robert Campbell - On the builders in his family
Minister Robert Lee Campbell recalls the impact his grandfather and uncles had on the development of the Northside neighborhood and prominent buildings across Chapel Hill’s campus. Minister Campbell explains how his and other African American…
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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…
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Edward Jones - On his family, dealing with discrimination in Chapel Hill, and experiences in the Vietnam War
In this interview, Northside resident Edward Jones discusses a wide range of personal and community events that have shaped his life into what he sees it as today. Mr. Jones begins his story by talking about his relatives and their experiences:…
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Edwin Caldwell, Jr. - On his childhood and interactions between Black and white community members
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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Additional Resources
Here are some of the materials we have found helpful in preparing for and thinking through the oral history interviews on this site. These may supplement but cannot substitute for direct listening. You may also find the MCJC educational materials…
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Thomas James "Bubba" Norwood - On growing up in Carrboro and playing music in bands
Thomas James “Bubba” Norwood was born in Durham in 1942 and grew up in Northside and Carrboro. At seventeen, he went on tour with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and went on to play with bands including The Monkees and Albert King, before ultimately…
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Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On changes in Northside
"When I came out of service, the first thing I said to her [Euzelle Smith] was I want a car. I want to buy a new car. She said to me, 'I want a house.' I said, 'Ok, I’m going to build you a house, and I’m going to buy me a car.'" - R.D. Smith The…
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James Brittian - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
“In the Black community, regardless of who you were, everyone socialized together to a certain degree.” - James Brittian James Brittian was born in 1944 on Rosemary Street and grew up in Chapel Hill. He talks about his family, growing up with his…
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Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and integration
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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Hilliard Caldwell - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill (Interview One)
“It was hard times, but it was good times. It was hard times, but it was fair times. It was hard times, but we appreciated what was there. We appreciated our parents, we appreciated the school structure, the community structure, the church structure.…
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Kathy Atwater - On Hargraves Center and the A.D. Clark Pool
"You can’t have Hargraves without A.D. Clark Pool. And you can’t have A.D. Clark Pool without Hargraves. They’re just meshed together because it’s just a perfect match. - Kathy Atwater Kathy Atwater recounts her childhood visiting the Hargraves…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - On the integration of Lincoln High School, family, and civil rights
In this interview, the second of two 2017 interviews conducted by Andrea Wuerth, David Caldwell, Jr., discusses his experiences in the newly-integrated Chapel Hill High School. He remembers the difficult early years, describing his accidental role in…
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Thurman Couch - On his childhood, family, and school integration
This interview with Thurman Couch covers growing up in Chapel Hill during high school in the 1950-60s. He attended Lincoln High School before it was shut down in 1962, and then he attended Chapel Hill High School. Couch reflects on his lifestyle,…
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Introduction to Northside History
Ms. Velma Perry tracks her family history to the mid-18th century and the day Jesse Hargrave, one of the premiere landowners in an area that was yet to be called “Chapel Hill,” received her enslaved grandparents as a wedding gift. The Hargrave family…
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Thanks
In the spring of 2009, a student at UNC, Charlie McGeehan, worked day and night to set up our first oral history digital system in the office of the newly established Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History—a long name for a small…
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Mae McLendon - On motherhood and attending UNC
“I was a member of the Black Student Movement. It was like a year old when I got there so I was very active in that. I was the off-campus minister. We would go to the football games and not stand for the national anthem…as a form of protest.” - Mae…
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