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Dolores Clark - On the Barbees (clip)
Dolores Clark: So my great grandmother and great grandfather had two children, Sally and William. Okay, the two children. And that’s when they added on to their house after they built the log house, because they started a family. Sally married a…
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William “Smitty” Smith - Good Masonry (clip)
William Smith: That’s the very difficult question because masons, I’ll give you an example, we had a mason one time come to work with a pair of white shoes. He worked all day and when he left his shoes were still white. No mortar on them at all and…
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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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Albert Washington - On his work as a builder
“Everything you do, just make it look good and have pride in what you do. And we had a lot of pride in what we did.” - Albert Williams Albert Washington is a former brick mason and Black business owner. He and his business partner, Barry Kelly, have…
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Protest
Harold Foster is the man with his fist raised and his back towards the camera, talking to the crowd. Anita Booth is on the far left, wearing a button-up collared shirt with vertical stripes. Larry Foushee is to the right of Anita Booth, in the front…
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Chapel Hill High School
"McDougle had been the principal since1949 through 1966 at Lincoln. All of a sudden, he goes to Chapel Hill High, and they take and make him an assistant. W.D. Peerman who had been one of the winningest football coaches of North Carolina, he was…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Harold Foster and his leadership ability (clip)
Interviewer: Tell me when did you first get to know Harold Foster? Hilliard Caldwell: I was a senior, and he was a freshman, I think. If I’m not mistaken, if I look at my high school newspaper for some reason it was either Harold or Mary Mason always…
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Black Education in Chapel Hill/Carrboro before desegregation
Photos courtesy of: Dolores Clark, From the Rock Wall ,The Lincoln High School Newspaper (Orange Echo/Lincoln Echo) accessed via Digital NC, Jim Shotts, Open Orange, The Library of Congress, University of Virginia Library, Jackson Davis Collection…
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The Freedom Movement
Spurred by the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro and by the actions of high school students determined to gain fair and open access to places that served the public, the Freedom Movement in Chapel Hill was supposed to break the way for cities and…
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Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Brick work (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: My brother did the brick work and my cousin. I guess they all started that in high school. The football players had to work in construction in the summer because they didn’t have exercise equipment, so they felt that they…
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David Caldwell
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Mighty, Mighty Tigers
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Nathaniel Lee
To learn more about Nathaniel Lee and Pee Wee Homes, click here to read an article from Chapel Hill Magazine.
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Euyvonne Cotton carried by Chapel Hill Police
Chapel Hill police officers Graham Creel(left) and David Caldwell(right) carry Euyvonne Cotton to a police car following her arrest for sitting-in at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Merchants Association.
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Mary Mason Boyd - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"We thought that since it’s a fight for the Black cause, it should be located in the Black community and establishment." - Mary Mason Boyd This interview is part of an oral history interview project conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the…
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Parrish Brothers, owners of one of the oldest African-American owned farms in Orange County
The Parrish brothers’ farm is one of the oldest African-American owned farms in Orange County. Here, they pose behind the truck they bring into town each day to Northside to pick up expired food from “Heavenly Groceries” to use on the farm to feed…
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David Caldwell, Jr. - Going to town (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr.: Because when we moved out here, I was in the third grade, so it was the [19]60s, and there was not a lot of houses. There was not a lot of things going on that you could do, so we spent a lot of our time in the woods. There were…
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Dolores Clark - On the Masons (clip)
Dolores Clark: My grandfather was very active, like I said, in the masons. He was a mason, very active. He has built so many things around in the community, the First Baptist Church in Carrboro, he was a part of building that. And I understand from…
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Saundra Dockery
"I’m so glad my stepfather was a Mason, and my mother joined the Eastern Stars. I feel that part of her heart and her goodness is because of that relationship with the Masons and the Eastern Stars because they’re really good people." - Saundra…
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Albert "Bruce" Washington - Background information (clip)
Yvonne Cleveland: What made you interested in becoming a brick mason? Albert Washington: Well, I took it in high school at Chatham County, Horton High School, and they used to interview us and say who’s going to college? If you weren't going to…
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Mr. Jerry Neville with participants from Vision Tennis
Each Saturday, Jerry, a Town of Chapel Hill employee, volunteers his time at Hargraves to teach young children how to play tennis. Jerry’s mother, who is 99 and one of the oldest Orange County natives, still lives in the stone mason house where…
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David Mason, Jr. - On Lincoln High School, school desegregation, and Northside
David Mason, Jr. a lifetime resident of Chapel Hill, is one of the leaders of the Lincoln High Alumni Association, an active member of St. Joseph CME, and a community historian. This interview, conducted as part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for…
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