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Oral History
Cynthia Edwards-Paschall - On hanging out at Hargraves (clip)
Cynthia Edwards-Paschall (CEP): I look at this pool and I’m just thinking about...most of us were probably this high when this place was our second home and it was a safe place and I had no idea at the time that it was the only place I could come to…
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Katherine Council - On education, changes in the community, and racial discrimination
“I really think with children, it didn’t matter. It was the adults that were having problems.” (In reference to integration) - Katherine "Mama Kat" Council Ms. Council, fondly known as Mama Kat, grew up on a farm in Chapel Hill down Jones Ferry Road…
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Like Going to Heaven
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Dennis Farrington - On his family, education, and work experiences
Dennis Farrington spent the first part of his life in the Northside area of Chapel Hill before moving to a home off of NC Hwy 54, and he has deep roots in Chatham County, North Carolina. He attended Chapel Hill High School after it was newly…
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Chelsea Alston - On the neighborhood and community changing (clip)
Alexander Stephens: How have you seen it [the community] change? Chelsea Alston: I’ve seen it change from—Well, like I was saying a lot of my friends live in close proximity of each other. It’s changing to where that it’ll be more of my friends…
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Hilliard Caldwell - His parents (clip)
Interviewer: I’m going to try to get straight on a few of the things that he’s already mentioned. Could you tell me your birth date? Hilliard Caldwell: February 26, 1937 Interviewer: Were you born at home? Hospital? Hilliard Caldwell: Yes, I was one…
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William Gattis - How far we have come (clip)
William Gattis: And it did not stop in the ‘50s. We experienced–we are still experiencing part of the fallout, but this went on through the ‘60s. The students from Lincoln High School, this was beginning in 1962 through ‘64, we’re talking about…
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Martrina Morrow - On food and food accessibility
This interview provides discussion of food, especially the process of getting food, and the amount of food you could buy. Furthermore, Morrow describes the change in money changes to affect how much food you can buy. She also demonstrates how money…
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William Gattis - On violence (clip)
William Gattis: White men thought it was their point of duty to cross over into Northside or Pottersfield to rape Black women and kill Black men and then go back to the other side of town and not have to pay a price for that balance. And that is why,…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Greensboro Sit-Ins and first sit-ins in Chapel Hill (clip)
John Kenyon “Yonni” Chapman (YC): Do you remember when the Greensboro sit-ins first took place? I know the date was February 1, 1960. Hilliard Caldwell (HC): Yeah, I remember that. Right. YC: Do you remember anything about the first sit-ins that took…
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Freda Andrews - on her work as a remediation specialist (clip)
Freda Andrews (FA): Folk like me, they don’t have to pay us full salary. They hire us to come in and do remediation for a grade level to help them because many of the students don’t do well on the End of Grade tests. We are like a faux tutor in the…
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Arminta Foushee - On doing church announcements (clip)
Arminta Foushee: But I also remember, I don't know how I got pegged with this job. So in most Black churches on Sunday mornings you have the announcements that are read and said, and so I did the announcements every Sunday from the time I was 12…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Childcare while mother worked (clip)
Interviewer: Do you remember after your father died, which was during the war, and your mother having to raise the four of you on her own, that meant that she must have been working a lot, do you have any memory of what her hours of work would…
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Nate Davis - On Local Police Relations (clip)
Nate Davis: And, South Estes, which is off 15-501, the Estes Drive public housing used to be called Ridgefield. That’s one of the public housing areas, and when some of our friends had moved down that way we would go down there and–but, when we got…
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Dolores Clark - On her great-grandfather (clip)
Dolores Clark: Tony was separated from his mother. His mother was taken from him to Hillsborough and put on the block in Hillsborough when he was only 7 years old. And after that, he stayed on the plantation until he was about 16 or 17, and left the…
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Esphur and Harold Foster - On What Makes a Neighborhood a Real Community (clip)
Hudson Vaughan: All these stories, I feel like, speak to really what makes a neighborhood. But could you talk a little bit about what you feel like have been the most valuable aspects of the neighborhood you’ve grown up in? And if maybe it has…
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Mr. Benito Escovedo-Leal
Benito likes to provide opportunities for people to experience beauty. He’s pictured with an art installation that he and a neighbor created for passers-by near Bolin Creek, a place they called home for a time.
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Mr. Antonio Silva Martinez
Originally from Mexico, Antonio made his home in Carrboro a number of years ago. He’s worked in a number of different trades and hopes he’ll be able to start a business of his own one day.
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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…
Place
Walt's Grill
The building that houses Ms. Molly's Gift Shop and Walt's Grill has been owned by the Riggsbee family since 1944. At various points in time, it has been home to the Church of God of Prophecy and Lizzy Mae's Southern Kitchen. In the late 1990s, the…
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Amanda Ashley
Amanda Ashley grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a home economics teacher, and so she grew up with a strong understanding of nutrition. In the summers, they would sometimes visit her grandmother who had a farm in Georgia, where…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Churches, Schools, PTA (clip)
John Kenyon “Yonni” Chapman (YC): As you were growing up you were saying that the schools and the church were very important. HC: Back in those days… YC: Tell me about that. HC: See the church and the schools had a very good relationship with each…
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Allen Buansi - On his mother advocating for him in school (clip)
Allen Buansi: And some of my formative experiences being in Chapel Hill, I can remember my first or second day of school, when I was at Guy B. Phillips Middle School. I can remember not feeling the most welcomed at first, because I remember I got…
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