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Gwen Atwater - On family, faith, segregation, and Frank Porter Graham Elementary School
Gwen Atwater came to Chapel Hill, her husband’s hometown, after he got out of the military. Following a brief stint in customer service and time working in the school district’s administrative offices, she took a job teaching at Frank Porter Graham…
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Keith Edwards - On the importance of food
“Sundays were always a special day. That whole day was made into just like a holiday. - Keith Edwards This interview includes Keith Edwards’s viewpoint on the importance of food in the home and in the community. She recalls specific recipes in the…
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Paul Caldwell - On his career and the Northside neighborhood
I had six brothers in all, we had no sisters, and me being the youngest of the six I really had to do a lot of fending for myself coming up because your older brothers can pick on you. But I had one advantage, I could run the fastest, so if I did…
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Albert and Eloise Williams - On community, faith, race, and being a firefighter
"As jobs became available… [People] came to Chapel Hill. University jobs [were] plentiful. - Rev. Albert Williams Rev. Albert Williams is the minister at Staunton Memorial CME Church in Pittsboro. He is a lifetime resident of the area and was the…
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Edwin Caldwell - On the Church of Reconciliation and status of the local Black community
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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Polly McCauley - On growing up in Chapel Hill and her educational experiences
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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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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Brentton Harrison - On Hargraves Center
"Come to Hargraves. Come build community either with myself or someone else. Build community because at the end of the day, community is kind of the only answer. - Brentton Harrison Brentton Harrison has been in Chapel Hill since he was nine and…
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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. During the interview she reflects on her childhood and life in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. She only attended segregated…
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Lavisha Williams - On food, cooking, and eating
Lavisha Williams grew up with her maternal grandparents as part of the household, and learned to cook watching them and her parents. Most of the foods and meals she grew up with had been passed down from her great-grandparents without cookbooks or…
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Brian Toomey - On his outreach work and services of the health center
Brian Toomey majored in History and wanted to teach after graduation. He moved to Carrboro in 2010 from Massachusetts. He speaks in detail about the services of the health center he works at and the outreach work for the Northside Neighborhood.…
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Elaine Norwood - On changes in Northside and relationships with neighbors
Ms. Elaine Norwood discusses her life-long residence in the Northside, relationships with neighbors, changes in the neighborhood, and race relations in Chapel Hill. The changes in the neighborhood are due to the elderly dying out, and the next…
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Stella Nickerson - On her childhood, family, 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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Deloris Bynum - On school integration, church, and work
In this interview Deloris Bynum recounts being in the 8th grade when black students were integrated into Chapel Hill High School. Bynum says that she loved to teach children. She worked as a Nurse’s Aide in Assisted Living homes and loved older…
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Saundra Dockery - Speaking about her mother
This interview was part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s History Potluck series. Saundra Dockery, is a Northside native and daughter of Katherine Council better known as “Mama Kat”. Ms. Dockery shares photos and documents from her mother’s life…
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Sherdenia Thompson Dunn - On her education, missionary work, and segregation
“...It really became the motto of my life- to live like that. Not just for knowledge or education, but to have tools like that- qualities, virtues that can help people fight battles through life.” - Sherdenia Thompson Dunn Sherdenia Thompson Dunn was…
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Rebecca Clark - On her 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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Kathy Atwater - On home, community, and Northside
"So there would not be a University if there had not been the Blacks in this community to help build the University." - Kathy Atwater In the beginning of the interview, Ms. Atwater describes the history of her home, growing up in her neighborhood,…
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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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Doug Clark, Sr. - On growing up in Chapel Hill and high school
"But I'm like this: I don't forget people. Anybody who's a friend of mine that helped me, I don't forget him. I cherish friends; I cherish friendships." - Doug Clark, Sr. Doug Clark, Sr., a musician, was born in Chapel Hill in 1936, where he lived in…
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Sheila Florence - On her childhood, education, and school integration
“Lincoln High. That was the school back then. Everybody couldn’t wait to get to Lincoln High School.” - Sheila Florence Sheila Florence, a nurse lab technician, grew up in Chapel Hill during the 1950s and 60s. She reflects on her experiences growing…
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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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