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Gwen Atwater
Gwen Atwater came to call Chapel Hill home after moving here with her husband, who had spent his childhood playing in these streets. She began teaching at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School in 1973, where she spent the next three decades engaging…
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Doug Clark
"My dad would go to work in the morning. Go to the South building to work before the post office. And then he would leave there and go straight to the Carolina Inn. And he probably wouldn’t come home till nine or ten o’clock." - Doug Clark, Sr.
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David Mason, Jr. - On Black communities in Chapel Hill
This interview provides an overview of Black communities in Chapel Hill during Mason's life. He notes the consequences of having segregated communities and outdated infrastructures. His employment was at UNC Chapel Hill and he was employed at an…
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Collene Rogers - On the importance of working together as a community and her involvement with civil rights organizations
In this interview, Collene Rogers begins by explaining the importance of working together as a community, standing up for oneself, and always working to improve one's own life. She then tells her experiences working for New York City banks, in which…
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Clayton Weaver - On his parents, education, and Northside
“I tell you young people, stay up with your peers. Never lose track of them.” - Clayton Weaver Weaver was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC on Cameron Avenue. His great-uncle bought their family home in 1929 for $3000. He went to school at Northside…
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Mr. Russell Edwards & Family
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Hilliard Caldwell - Dedication of teachers and his grades (clip)
Interviewer: Tell me more about the Black schools that you grew up in, not just when you were in high school but even before that. What were they like? What did that mean for you? Hilliard Caldwell: It meant that… I have to admit that we had darn…
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Betty King - on her first encounters with segregation as she began schooling (clip)
BK: Yeah. And see then, I knew what, got my first taste of segregation mainly was when I started school. RG: Which school? BK: It was Orange County Training School at that time. And that's over there where Northside is now. Same building. OK. The…
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Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Home improvement (clip)
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: Yes, I have to handle a whole lot. I’m out there by myself. I have to handle a whole lot, you know. I fix plumbing leaks for the toilet. I have a whole house filter so I change that. And I paint. I do all of that stuff. But I…
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Kathy Atwater - On pottage field (clip)
Kathy Atwater (KA): Can I add too, and just hearing this, because growing up, I did not know that this was Pottersfield. The parents called it Pottage, Pottage Field which had a different connotation for me growing up because “pottage field,” and…
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Sharon Livingston
"If you ask for help, you get it here." - Sharon Livingston Sharon is originally from New York and moved from Oklahoma to Chapel Hill, NC for medical training. At the time of the interview, she had been in Chapel Hill for three years. Her first…
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Rev. Williams was the first African American firefighter…
Rev. Albert and Mrs. Eloise Williams
High school sweethearts, gracious hosts, committed servant leaders, the Reverend and Mrs. Williams, lifetime residents of Chapel Hill, chose to photographed in front of their beautiful home.Rev. Williams was the first African American firefighter…
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Chelsea Alston - On her experiences as a youth leader and changes in the community
"I feel like home is where you feel comfortable. If you can walk in somebody else’s house or knock on the door and they just let you in, that’s considered home." - Chelsea Alston Chelsea Alston shares her experiences as a youth leader in the…
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Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On maintaining family homes (clip)
Kathryn Wall (KW): I’m sure it varied some, but when some of these older generation that had become homeowners and had been able to have the financial stability to support the church, I know when we look at the housing in this area one of the issues…
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Lincoln Center
Located at 750 S. Merritt Mill Road, Lincoln Center is an administrative building of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. From 1951-1966, the building was home to Lincoln High School, the school serving Black students in the school system. The…
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Collene Rogers - On her father's career in the trades
“At his (Walter Riggsbee) funeral, Reverend Manley said, “How many people had to call him at 1 o’clock in the morning, 2 o’clock in the morning, and he came?” I think every hand in the church went up.” - Collene Rigsbee This interview is part of the…
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Ms. Molly's Gift Shop
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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David Caldwell - On the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community
“That’s one reason we’re trying so hard to document everything. Because if you lose your identity, you lose your community…You lose your community, whether it’s from development or people buying it, you lose your identity also. So either way, if you…
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Hilliard Caldwell - Speaking about his childhood, family, and race
I was president of my student body at Lincoln High from 1955-56. That was the first time that I'd ever ran for an office where people voted for you based on what you stood for. Having experienced that in an all Black high school was the driving point…
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T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala
Minnie James, Helen Redd, and Grace Franklin celebrate together. Ms. Franklin hosted the T.P. Duhart Board Christmas Gala at her home on Lindsey Street.
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Other Neighbors
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Dennis Lee Farrington Jr. - On family and growing up in Chapel Hill
"I always tell people love is what love does. A lot of people tell you they love you and they care about you but they speak from the mouth and not from the heart." - Dennis Lee Farrington This interview was a part of the History Potluck held by the…
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William Gattis - On discrimination (clip)
William Gattis (WG): We call that urban renewal. You see, so when we look up and if we really want to be realistic, they are synonymous in terms of the outcome, you see. So what I’m suggesting, as a kid, even if I’m young in the late 40s and the 50s,…
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