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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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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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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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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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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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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles David Brooks - On their family history and business
"They had a very high reputation in the community. They did excellent work. One thing that my father always said, that when they finished their job, they didn’t have to go back…They did quality work, quality construction." -Vernelle Brooks Jones "I…
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Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Becoming Contractors (clip)
Charles Brooks: My grandfather and my father, they started out as subcontractors and they used to do a lot of work for like JP Co. Force Security Builders. They even did some framing for Tate Construction. In the early 70s my father ended up…
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Marian Cheek Jackson - On St. Joseph's Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the effects of urban renewal
In this interview, Marian Cheek Jackson describes the origins of St. Joseph's Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and her start as church historian. Jackson discusses the role of her father, Kennon Cheek, and Russell Edwards in establishing the…
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Arminta Foushee - On being the church historian (clip)
Arminta Foushee (AF): I love history, and so I would end up being picked as the historian for the church. But this particular book, When Chapel Hill Was a Village by Cornelia Spencer Love, and it has information about the original churches in Chapel…
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Mary Norwood Jones - On her experiences at Orange County Training School
“First of all, I think that any person who comes to this community to teach in the school system should have a tour of Chapel Hill prior to teaching, so that they will know where the different neighborhoods are and what the neighborhoods are all…
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Katherine Council - On her children and growing up outside of Carrboro
In this impromptu interview done at Heavenly Groceries Food Ministry, Katherine “Mama Kat” Council tells us what it was like growing up right outside of Carrboro back in the 1930’s. She recalls how for a while her family had to use a wagon to get to…
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Mary Norwood Jones - On her teachers at Orange County Training School (clip)
BG: What was your involvement in sports here at Orange County Training School? MJ: Well, they had different clubs and I was a member of just about every club in the school. My favorite was playing basketball, and I started playing basketball when I…
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Arminta Foushee - On the founding families of the church (clip)
Arminta Foushee (AF): This is actually the – one of the founding families. So, Hargraves Center. Kathryn Wall (KW): Mhm. AF: Billy Hargraves, William Hargraves Center. But we called him Billy, he was a good friend of my mom’s. They were in school…
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Tin Can
"Sometimes the [Lincoln High School basketball] coaches would take the boys to a gym down on UNC campus to play...the Tin Can. They would take them down to practice. They never played a game there. All the games were played over here in our…
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Marian Cheek Jackson - On the Jackson Center and her vision for Northside
Marian Cheek Jackson has resided in Chapel Hill for her entire life. Much of the life she knows has involved her staying in, participating in, and protecting Northside. The Marian Cheek Jackson Center was named after her because of the vision she had…
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Mary Norwood Jones - On growing up in Carrboro and her experiences at North Carolina Central University
Mary Norwood Jones is a Chapel Hill Native that attended Lincoln High School while it was still Orange County Training School. She discusses her childhood in the Chapel Hill area around the time of World War II and how the community was close knit.…
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Harold Foster, Anita Booth, Larry Foushee, Wilbert Jones, (unknown), (unknown child), Bernard Foushee, Maxene…
Harold Foster rallies demonstrators at St. Joseph CME
Harold Foster rallies demonstrators in front of St. Joseph CME church before marching through Chapel Hill.First row left to right:
Harold Foster, Anita Booth, Larry Foushee, Wilbert Jones, (unknown), (unknown child), Bernard Foushee, Maxene…
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Cleo Caldwell - On her family's musical talent, growing up in Northside, and returning to the neighborhood
In this interview, Cleo Caldwell, 53, discusses growing up in the Northside neighborhood surrounded by extended family and, in particular, her cousins who became policemen and civil rights activists. Cleo’s mother and sisters were known for their…
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