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Oral History
Hilliard Caldwell - Liberal white citizens in Chapel Hill (clip)
Yonni Chapman (YC): Ok, so when you were a junior and senior in high school you had some of these discussions. Did that change your life in any way? Hilliard Caldwell (HC): It pointed out–I remember my thinking was that there were white people who…
Oral History
Wanda Weaver and Kathy Atwater - Speaking about family and the Northside community
"Everybody looked out for everybody." - Kathy Atwater This interview mainly focuses on Wanda Weaver’s mother and father/Kathy Atwater’s aunt and uncle, as well as the past and present dynamics of the Northside community. Ms. Wanda and Ms. Kathy show…
Oral History
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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Isabel Atwater - On growing up during World War II, Black businesses, and Civil Rights
Ms. Atwater speaks about life growing up in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area during World War II. She shares her experiences with her husband, Roy Atwater and her education at the rural Merritt School and Orange County Training School. She was familiar…
Oral History
Hilliard Caldwell - Campus Y meeting between Lincoln and Chapel Hill High School students (clip)
Interviewer: Tell me about these meetings at the Campus Y. Hilliard Caldwell: They were heralded as human relations sessions between representatives of one high school and another. We talked about commonality among teenagers. We talked about how we…
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Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather Jacob James and St. Paul AME Church
"He [Jacob James] was just very well respected here in Chapel Hill. I remember when he passed in Chapel Hill, I was living in Washington DC. It was probably one of the largest funeral servicec I’ve attended at St. Paul [AME Church]. They had to bring…
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Dolores Clark - Strayhorn family (clip)
Dolores Clark: Well I’ll start first with the Strayhorn family because I was raised in the home that my great grandparents Toney and Nellie Strayhorn built in 1879. And I was born in 1933 and lived in that home for about maybe 20 years or 18 years, I…
Oral History
Dolores Clark - On the history of Black builders in her family
"They were devout Christians...and so, we survived. We survived by faith. They had a lot of faith." - Dolores Clark This interview is part of a series on Black builders in Orange County. Dolores Clark, a long-term resident of Chapel Hill, explains…
Oral History
Terrence Foushee - On Durham Tech (clip)
Terrence Foushee: So, after doing two years of AmeriCorps, I came back, and I knew that I wanted to go back to school. So I would say probably within a month of me returning home I applied to Durham Tech, to transfer into Durham Tech. I think I came…
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David Caldwell Jr. - On Childhood Community Dynamic (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): And during the summertime we’d leave out in the mornings, at 6:30, and we wouldn’t have to be back home until dark. Blanche Brown (BB): Wow. DC: And nobody worried. There was about, oh, maybe 12 others, from teenage down to…
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Minister Robert Campbell - On Chapel Hill rocks (clip)
Minister Robert Campbell (RC): …and in-laws help do that. Kathryn Wall (KW): So what is a grapevine joint? Robert Campbell: A grapevine joint—it looked like a bead. And then you have what you called the cobb where it shapes around the rock to give…
Oral History
Terrence Foushee - On his first year of teaching (clip)
Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you remember your first day in the classroom as a teacher? Terrence Foushee (TF): I don’t even know! So I remember my room. I remember that my first year, that I had to share my room with another teacher but it was a blur. I…
Place
Merritt's Store
"The geographic boundary was pretty much the neighborhood. I think one time a friend and I left the neighborhood and we ended up at Merritt's store to get some candy. And we went past Merritt's store and we ended up on the next street. There turned…
Oral History
Reginald Hildebrand - On women's roles at St. Paul AME Church (clip)
Reginald Hildebrand: When moving around the community when Ms. Perry’s name came up and she was designated a Town Treasure at one point. Again, the kind of respect and accomplishment she had—I think she spent one year at Bennett and then she had to…
Document
Learning Economic Vocabulary through Businesses in Our Community
Using case studies of local Black-owned businesses, students will learn key economic vocabulary terms and be able to explain how those terms apply to real world situations in their own community. NC Standard Course of Study: 2.E.1.1 Give examples of…
Oral History
Heather Giuffre and Others - On their experiences as white UNC students living in Northside
“Well, I feel like it’s a big issue of whether or not businesses should have a social component in their mission. And I think that ideally, it’s best for business to have that element. And so, I feel like it’s responsible for businesses to take…
Oral History
Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Helping father (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: If they didn’t go then it was me, you know, and I just didn't want to do it so I said let me find me something to do, I have to get into some stuff. I got into 4-H, I got into Girl Scouts, I got into everything that was going…
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Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On Neville's Chapel Church (clip)
Kathryn Wall (KW): When you were going to First Baptist was your family going there as well or coming to St. Joseph’s? Pat Jackson (PJ): No, my family didn't come to St. Joseph, my family, my mother, our home church is Neville's Chapel and it’s out…
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Willis Farrington - On growing up in Northside, local businesses, and Northside neighbors
"Hargraves used to be my home away from home." - Minister Willis Farrington This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series. Minister Willis Farrington, an associate pastor at S. Joseph CME Church, grew up in Chapel…
Person
Collene Rogers
Collene was born and grew up in her family’s home on Merritt Mill Road. Her mother, Mary Neville Riggsbee, grew up on the Neville Farm in Orange County and her father, Walter Riggsbee, grew up on the Riggsbee Farm in Chatham County. In the mid-1930s,…
Oral History
Kathy Atwater - On faith
"…People in this community knew the importance of faith especially during the times that they had to do for themselves, maintain their own, work for a little of nothing, but yet still be able to have their own home, be able to send their children to…
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