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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Subdivision (clip)
Charles Brooks: For me, I would say a lot of hard work. Back then if you had your own business you had to put a lot of hard work into it and there was a lot to overcome as far as finances if you wanted to go out and do stuff on your own, it was kind…
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Michael Jones
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Mary Norwood Jones
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Mrs. Betty Jones marches in a protest on Independence Day
A march on Independence Day, July 4, 1964, through downtown Chapel Hill.Mrs. Betty Jones, who was heavily involved in the movement, is pictured behind an American flag. She was a member of First Baptist, and was a flower lady near the old location of…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Young People Going into Construction Today (clip)
Charles Brooks: As far as young people getting into this right now. You don’t really see a lot of people going into the trades, like becoming plumbers, carpenters. For one thing the pay scale, I mean everything, it’s like everyone wants to do IT…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Working with Homeowners (clip)
Charles Brooks: I mean they would come to my father and grandfather with a set of plans, they would go from there. Sometimes you had to deviate from the plans to save money. But they definitely had to work hand in hand with the owners to find what…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Segregation (clip)
Vernelle Brooks Jones: I will say, tell a little story about this. My father shared this with us, he always went with his dad wherever he went because he was the one that took up the building aspect of the business. He was browner in complexion, and…
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Marian Cheek Jackson - On her occupational history, family history, and parents
This interview starts with the occupational history for Marian Cheek Jackson. She worked in policy service, data processing, and underwriting for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company for 22 years. North Carolina Mutual is the largest and…
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Obituary for Mrs. Ida Lou Hoyt
Mrs. Ida Lou Hoyt's funeral took place on August 19, 1995 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Reverend Larry Anders officiated the service. Mrs. Hoyt was the mother of Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., who served as the minister of St. Joseph from 1967-1970.Photo…
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Mary Norwood Jones - On Orange County Training School (clip)
Mary Norwood Jones (MNJ): Well, not at Northside. It was Orange County Training School and this school became Northside in 1951. My class was the last graduating class to attend this school and graduate from twelfth grade. At that particular time it…
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Betty King - on teachers as role models at Orange County Training School (clip)
RG: Do you still remember your teachers from Orange County Training School? BK: I remember, not back too far. I just went to one of them's funeral. She passed. Ruth Hope, I went to her funeral. One teacher, Miss Eziel ? Smith. She was my teacher.…
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David Mason, Jr. - On what happened after the sit-in (clip)
Matthew Miller: Were you arrested, were you taken away? Or did they just take your name? David Mason, Jr.: They just took our names, okay. But he said, if you— MM: If you do— DM: Well, we weren’t arrested at that time, I should say. MM: Okay. DM:…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Giving Back (clip)
Charles Brooks: My father and grandfather, their pricing would always be a lot lower than if they had gone to a larger contractor. So, a lot of people we did work for, we, my grandfather and my father, saved them a lot of money. Vernelle Brooks…
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Funeral Service Program for Mrs. Hattie Miles Wilson
Mrs. Hattie Miles Wilson's funeral took place on August 5, 2007 at Hanes Memorial CME Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Rev. Clarence W. Cox, III officiated the service. Mrs. Wilson was the wife of Rev. Wylie E. Wilson, who served as the…
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Kathy Atwater - On faith
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Mary Norwood Jones - on her experience in the band under Mr.Pickard (clip)
BG: What was the band like under Mr. Pickard? MJ: Well, we were getting started and what happened then was that Mr. Pickard would put all of the instruments out on tables and people would go into the room and choose the instrument that they were…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Family History (clip)
Vernelle Brooks Jones: Because back, all the way back to my great grandfather who was also a builder. His, he was the first Charles David Brooks. And then my grandaddy was Charles David Brooks II. And onto my dad, Charles David Brooks III and my…
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Esphur and Harold Foster - On their mother, Hattie Mae Foster's passing, and the community response to her death (clip)
Esphur Foster (EF): So when we took her down to the hospital that next morning Charley sent word over to the dental school and she said, tell everybody if they want to see Hattie for the last time to say goodbye, to come over. So when we got ready to…
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Campus Y
Charlie Jones was the first person to bring a group of us high school students together and we met at the YMCA on campus...Charlie Jones had a daughter that was a junior at the same time, and he pulled together a group of black high school students…
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Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Building houses (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: Well, you know, it’s our house that’s on Merrit Mill Road that we had also and the building, my grandfather, his father, is the one that gave him the building but it was like, you know old times they had wooden buildings and…
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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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Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Day or night (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: If they called him and they needed it, he’d go. At his funeral, Reverend Manley said, “How many people had to call him at one o’clock in the morning--two o’clock in the morning--and he came?” And I think every hand in the…
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