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Joanne Peerman - On her childhood, education, and school integration
This oral history 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 interviewees were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former…
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Raney Norwood - On childhood, education, and school 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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Keith Edwards - On race in Chapel Hill compared to Carrboro
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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Judy Nunn Snipes and Gertrude Nunn - On living on Rogers Road when it was a wagon road (clip)
Darius Scott (DS): So, before you married Mr. Nunn, you were living over on Rogers Road? Judy Nunn Snipes (JS): Yes. Gertrude Nunn (GN): Exactly. DS: And at that time, it was still the wagon trail? S: Yes. GN: Yeah, uh-huh. DS: And could you talk a…
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Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On Pottersfield and Smith Middle School
This interview was done as part of the “Histories of Homes” initiative of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History. The interview includes R.D.’s experience in WWII and his role in constructing their current home after the war.…
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Paul Caldwell - On changes in education and his career
“Take one day at a time, don't plan on tomorrow or next week. God gives you one day at a time you take that one day and you thank him for it.” - Paul Caldwell This interview was conducted for a special edition of the Northside News on education. The…
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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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Thomas Merritt - On his family history, the importance of land ownership, and life prior to and after integration
"Know what history really is. Know what history is all about. Dig deep." - Thomas Merritt In this interview, Mr. Merritt gives an overview of his family history in Chapel Hill and Carrboro by sharing memories of his childhood while discussing larger…
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Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On her family, faith, community, and civil rights
Patricia Jackson grew up in Chapel Hill, NC and has been a member of St. Joseph CME Church for over forty years. She now works with Wake County Schools and is also a church secretary, a stewardess, and a community activist. This interview was done…
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Karen L. Parker - On her childhood, family, college experience, and race
Karen Lynn Parker was the first African American woman undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She discusses her childhood; family history; moving to Los Angels; three marriages; division of race in her neighborhood;…
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Marquette Costen - On moving to North Carolina and what makes a good neighbor
This interview was done as part of the Facing Our Neighbors project. It begins with Costen discussing his respect for Southern women, noting that they can be stronger than men. Costen was originally from Washington, D.C. and moved to North Carolina…
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Esphur and Harold Foster - On their family home (clip)
Harold Vaughan: So how long have y’all lived in this, this neighborhood? Esphur Foster: Seventy years. HV: Your whole life. EF: Yeah. We have, we had a cookout one night and we brought all of our, a lot of old pictures out and were showing them to…
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Donna Bell - On her family, career, and Northside
Chronological overview of Donna Bell’s life history; being raised in New Bern, NC; growing up in a single parent home; her undergraduate experience and involvement at UNC; career choices through studying English to working in Social Therapy; her move…
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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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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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Rodney Taylor Sr., a current member and trustee at Barbee’s Chapel Baptist Church, has had a lifelong passion for community involvement. Mr. Taylor was born on June 26,…
Rodney Taylor - On community involvement
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series.Rodney Taylor Sr., a current member and trustee at Barbee’s Chapel Baptist Church, has had a lifelong passion for community involvement. Mr. Taylor was born on June 26,…
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Paul Caldwell - On working during segregation (clip)
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Valerie P. Foushee - On her career after leaving UNC (clip)
TB: So after you left you mentioned that you were working full time, what job were you working at? Valerie Foushee: I started out working part time while I was at Carolina for the Chapel Hill School system driving a school bus and being a bus…
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Mary Manning - On her childhood, education, and segregation
“Church had a good influence on my life." - Mary Manning Mary Manning was born in Carrboro on Birch Street and moved to Chapel Hill. She reflects on her childhood and her life living in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. She mentions several memories of her…
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Roberto Gonzalez - On food, immigrating, and his relationships with Northside neighbors and the Chapel Hill Latino community
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s A Place at the Table Series. Roberto Gonzalez, a resident of the Northside neighborhood and tenant of St. Josephs CME church, immigrated from Mexico to Chapel Hill when he was about 26 years…
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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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James Atwater - On how the memory of desegregation shapes local schools
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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Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"But they just didn’t want us to integrate, that was the biggest problem." - Carol Brooks The interviewees provide an overview of the Chapel Hill Civil Rights Movement. They specifically note the emotion of CRM marches of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and…
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