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Person
David Kirkman
Theme
Education
Knowledge is power. Since Reconstruction and the establishment of the first Freedmen’s School on the western edge of Chapel Hill (where Crook’s Corner is now) in the mid-1800s, the Black community has invested in the education of its youth. …
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - Introductions (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): I just want to test the sound levels real quick, so if you wouldn’t mind just saying something, anything. David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Five four three two one, one two three four five. BB: [laughter] Alright. DC: [laughter] BB: Okay.…
Person
David Lyles
Oral History
David Lyles and Joyce Yao
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David Caldwell is the Black officer standing on the left. Judy…
Chapel Hill police officers round up demonstrators for arrest at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Merchants Association sit-in
Chapel Hill police officers David Caldwell, Coy Durham, Charles Allison, and Herman Stone round up demonstrators for arrest at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Merchants Association sit-in.David Caldwell is the Black officer standing on the left. Judy…
Oral History
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…
Oral History
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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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…
Oral History
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…
Place
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…
Oral History
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…
Oral History
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…
Oral History
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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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…
Theme
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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David Caldwell
Exhibit Page
Mighty, Mighty Tigers
Oral History
David Caldwell Jr. - On Persisting Racism (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): So, you know we’ve made our contributions. My brothers and I, we’ve put in, my father, we’ve put in way over a hundred years in law enforcement and close to forty years in the military. So, how much more can a family give?…
Person
Nathaniel Lee
To learn more about Nathaniel Lee and Pee Wee Homes, click here to read an article from Chapel Hill Magazine.
Oral History
David Caldwell Jr. - On Landfill Exploitation 2 (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): So do you feel like, that even, I guess it kind of, it would have to affect it, because it’s the same sort of thing with the money that the people who own landfill and that sort of thing. David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Yes, today that’s…
Oral History
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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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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