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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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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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David Caldwell Jr. - On Basketball (clip)
David Caldwell Jr. (DC): And in the eighth grade I tried out for basketball, made the team. Blanche Brown (BB): Yeah, I mean you seem like a big guy. I feel like you would be good at sports. DC: Oh, not at all. BB: [Laughter] DC: And I made the team,…
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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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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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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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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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David Caldwell Jr. - On Military (clip)
David Caldwell: The Army, our father was in the military, did about 26 years, first sergeant, field artillery. What else did he do… so anyway after that, I went in. My brother already had gone in, he graduated high school early, went into the Marine…
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David Caldwell Jr. - On the Importance of Community History (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): I’ve got that story somewhere. Blanche Brown (BB): Where did you hear about that? How did you hear about that? DC: I found it in writing. I’ve heard some of the old people talking about it and didn’t know it and I got with…
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David Caldwell Jr. - 7th Grade (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): So you only spent about a year in Phillips? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Last three years. BB: Three years, so that was all of middle school, basically? DC: Mhm. BB: Okay, where was that? Is it still– is it still a school? DC: It’s…
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David Caldwell Jr. - NCCU Basketball Scholarship (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): So finished that, went on through the eighth grade, ninth grade, student council vice president my senior year. Blanche Brown (BB): Oh wow. DC: Finished up, I think my senior yearm I had no intentions of college. My senior…
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David Caldwell Jr. - Environmental Racism (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): I could say for us, what’s happened is that… It’s nothing, you know with bad water and buzzards and stinky air, you know, what do you tell your kids? “This is going to all be yours someday? You’re going to inherit all of…
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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 Caldwell Jr. - On Law Enforcement (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): So, did you have any brothers and sisters? David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Three brothers. BB: Three brothers, all boys? DC: All boys, yes. BB: Okay, and I really–I know that your father was a police officer, right? DC: Yes, he was a…
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David Caldwell Jr. - Discrimination in Integrated Schools (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): Now, you were going to school where, for the majority of the time? Like did you go to Lincoln, or did you-? David Caldwell Jr. (DC): No, I went to Chapel Hill High School. BB: Chapel Hill High School, okay. Because you were about,…
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David Caldwell Jr. - Rogers Road Battles (clip)
Blanche Brown (BB): So, what do you see as the next steps as far as trying to work with the companies who are sort of threatening the Rogers Road community? David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Oh gosh, we got so many battles going on. For Rogers Road, we’re…
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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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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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Handy Campbell
"My whole family was masons...that’s what we did that’s how I came up. - Handy Campbell Handy Campbell began working as a brick mason with his father at six years old. He started his own masonry business at fifteen years old, and had a long career…
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Albert "Bruce" Washington - Gateway (clip)
Albert “Bruce” Washington (ABW): I would like to see something like that, you know, I would like to see the picture of George Tate and Donny Brooks, and Charles Brooks, and people like that. And David Rankins, I’d like to see, because they were the…
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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…
