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Patricia Jackson - Fire Hose (clip)
Patricia Jackson: ...walk from this church and remember growing up as little kids we could walk from here and go to Big John’s pharmacy, which was just on the corner there of Franklin Street. But when segregation time came and when the students, and…
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Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On being bullied (clip)
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Rani Dasi - What her mother taught her about education (clip)
Rani Dasi (RD): And I went to college in Northwestern University in Chicago, actually Evanston, Illinois and I studied engineering. I was always interested in numbers and how they tell the story of the world really, and then during that time I…
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Janie Alston - On her family history (clip)
Alex Biggers (AB): I'm Alex Biggers, this is Hudson Vaughan. We're here with Janie Alston on Lindsey Street. It's April 20th, about like, 10 o'clock in the morning. Hudson Vaughan (HV): Awesome. We're just going to put this down, and then, let's just…
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Euzelle Smith - On teaching in South Carolina (clip)
Euzelle Smith (ES): The children went to school from 8:00 until 1:00. Got out at 1:00 everyday, because it was a farming community and the older ones had to work on the farm. Alexander Stephens (AS): Oh wow. ES: And it was an eight-month school year.…
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Terrence Foushee - On his parents involvement in his education (clip)
Kathryn Wall: You had mentioned your parents and your brother. Was education something that, coming up, your family took very seriously? Terrence Foushee: Oh yes [laughter], definitely. So, my parents have never played about education and I think…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Watching the news on television in the 1950s (clip)
John Kenyon “Yonni” Chapman (YC): Did your family have a television? Hilliard Caldwell (HC): Mmm, later on in life, I think we bought—there was one about fifty-two, fifty-three I can’t remember ( )- YC: Do you remember hearing about or seeing on…
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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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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"There would not be a University if there had not been the Blacks in this community to help build the University." - Kathy Atwater The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789 and began enrolling students in 1795. Through the…
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Joyce Long - On the connections between food, family, and memory
Having lived in New York City before moving to Chapel Hill, Joyce Long has seen firsthand the differences between Northern and Southern cooking. Her father owned a restaurant in Harlem, but she and her mother did most of the cooking in the home. Her…
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Hilliard Caldwell - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill (Interview Two)
"I was about 23, and I was married, and even my mom said, 'you ought not to be doing that,' and I said, 'Well, I’m sorry mom, but we have to.'" - Hilliard Caldwell Hilliard Caldwell, a Black activist in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area during the Civil…
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Emily Banks - On her family, immigration, and faith
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series. Emily Banks, a current member and leader of St. Joseph CME Church, was born in 1946 in New York and migrated south to North Carolina in 1970. She has spent the last…
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Bill's Bar-B-Que
"He had a wood yard; he sold wood. And so he asked and said, “Mary, why don’t you open a restaurant?” Because she could cook too, because she was cooking in the home and was taking care of the two children, you know...so that’s what they done. He did…
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Janie Johnson - On food, family, and growing up in Carrboro
Food takes center stage for Janie Johnson. In this interview, she describes in vivid imagery, along with accompanying envisioned smells, the kitchens of her mother and grandmother and all the food that came out of them. Several times, Ms. Johnson…
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