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Pottersfield (or Potter's Field)
"We were Potter's Field and Sunset. Students came mostly from Potter's Field and Sunset. So, whites were east of Caldwell Street. Some of them were on the eastern...end of Caldwell Street. Airport Road. Out in that area. So I did not [pass white…
Oral History
Katherine Council - On home, family, and changes in Chapel Hill
In this interview, Katherine “Mama Kat” Council talks about home and family. She discusses her parents, including her father’s death and her mother’s garden, and she describes where she grew up in rural Chapel Hill. Growing up was very different when…
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Clarke Egerton - on his busy schedule as an educator and active community member (clip)
CE: And there again, even with the band that I was working with, again I had the safety patrol, and I had a homeroom, and then they had the Maydays, which you are responsible for. And I was also the junior class advisor, which means that I had to be…
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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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Civil Rights Story Circle - On their experiences in Chapel Hill in the 1960s
Freedom fighters Euyvonne Cotton, James Foushee, William Carter, Linda Brown, Keith Edwards, and Marion Phillips gathered upstairs at St. Joseph C.M.E. to talk about their experiences as young people in the freedom movement in Chapel Hill 1960-1964.…
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Freda Andrews - on early experiences teaching and cultural differences (clip)
Freda Andrews (FA): It wasn’t Durham Public Schools, it was Durham City Schools. I had my first teaching job at Fayetteville Street School in Durham. The ironic thing is, about that, as a Black teacher, I had to learn the culture of my own people…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - On the Rogers Road neighborhood (clip)
Darius Scott (DS): What brought you guys from Merritt Mill to Rogers Road when you were in the third grade? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Oh! Like most of the people out here, we had the opportunity to buy a home. DS: Um-hmm. DC: There was only about…
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Collene Riggsbee Rogers - What people should know (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: That they were dependable. That when you call them, they did show up. And they learned, but they learned from others you know and that’s the only thing that I didn’t understand when I did move back. Music was something that…
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Ed Caldwell, Jr. - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
“We wanted integration, so we could have the same opportunities." - Ed Caldwell, Jr. During this oral history, Ed Caldwell, Jr. recounts his youth and adult career in Chapel Hill. Main focuses were the discussion of African American education,…
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Arminta Foushee - On St. Paul AME Church
"After the announcements were said I had this motto I would state, every Sunday I would say, "We are so happy to have you worshiping with us, we hope you would come back again." And St. Paul’s motto was: "visitors are strangers but once."" - Arminta…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Brothers in law enforcement (clip)
Hilliard Caldwell: My brothers’ backgrounds are varied. The leading career in my family was law enforcement. I have two brothers who have many years of law enforcement experience. One of the older brothers was the first full-time Black policeman in…
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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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Orange County Training School
"The OCTS is over here, on Caldwell. And my mother’s father was one of the ones that laid the cornerstone, they were all masons. And so I went to what they called Northside, but was OCTS, from 1945 which was when I started...and so my class was the…
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Freda Andrews - On Mrs. Caldwell and the softball team (clip)
Freda Andrews: I grew up, I learned how to swim at Hargraves Center. Everything he has said I did too, because I could go there with my classmates. We were the last class to graduate from Lincoln High School, class of ’65. We just had our 60th class…
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Arminta Foushee - On her grandmother's role as a class leader (clip)
Arminta Foushee: And my grandmother was a class leader, and you’d just be responsible as a class leader for, they would divide membership and give them to different class leaders, and they were responsible for checking on these people throughout the…
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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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Dedication of New Educational Building at St. Joseph CME Church
The second page "A Word From the Pastor" reads: The occasion which brings us together today is indeed one that will long be remembered in the hearts and minds of those of us who have worked and waited for this moment. To the members of St. Joseph who…
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James Atwater - On Pottersfield and influential teachers at Lincoln High School
“I would preface that by saying that our school was again so small that practically everyone had to do, I could say, had to play multiple roles because we simply did not have enough people to go around and to have the kinds of programs that we wanted…
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The Fabric of Community
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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…
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Russell Edwards - On his family, faith, health, and upbringing
Russell Edwards grew up in Chapel Hill and has watched, as well as experienced, many situations that African-Americans dealt with both before, during, and after the civil rights movement took place. He resides in one of the historic African American…
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Paul Caldwell - On Northside, the Civil Rights Movement, and his work in the University Police at UNC
Paul Caldwell was the first African-American sergeant, lieutenant, and captain of University Police at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview includes Mr. Caldwell’s early life; The evolution of the Northside Neighborhood;…
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David Caldwell Jr. - Being the Son of a Black Cop (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): So sort of backtracking a little bit, your father is featured in the Courage In The Moment book. Have you seen the book? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Yes. BB: What was your first impression? DC: Very impressed. Well you remember the…
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