Search
296 results for "David Mason, Jr."
Search results include one or more of the words in your search phrase. Not what you're looking for? Try changing up your search or exploring related items.
Oral History
David Caldwell Jr. - On Neighborhood Archives (clip)
David Caldwell Jr. (DC): Well it’s not just that, its in doing the history of the house, and we’ve traced it through Mr. Hogan, and it is so neat that April, no July 4th like 1845? 1855? the slaves were gathered around outside because Mr. Hogan was…
Oral History
Paul Caldwell - On working during segregation (clip)
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - On the importance of history work (clip)
Della Pollock (DP): So say one of your kids–he loves you and you love them–and they say to you, “But Mr. Caldwell, all that’s in the past. Why so worried about that? That’s all passed, that’s all over.” What do you say to them? David Caldwell (DC):…
Oral History
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 He notes the consequences of having segregated communities and outdated infrastructures.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…
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career and community
“You made a mistake, but learn from it. Matter of fact, if you learn from it, it’s not a mistake." - David Caldwell, Jr. David Caldwell Jr. gives an overview of his life in Chapel Hill and his experiences in the US Army and his other occupations. He…
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - On high school football and basketball (clip)
David Caldwell (DC): The Tin Can…they used to run us out of there. Phew. Della Pollock (DP): So the Tin Can, that was the basketball court. DC: Yeah, the gym at UNC. DP: Was it the same as Woolen? No? DC: No, this is it. They called it the Tin Can…
Oral History
Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Giving Back (clip)
Charles Brooks: My father and grandfather, their pricing would always be a lot lower than if they had gone to a larger contractor. So, a lot of people we did work for, we, my grandfather and my father, saved them a lot of money. Vernelle Brooks…
Oral History
Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Young People Going into Construction Today (clip)
Charles Brooks: As far as young people getting into this right now. You don’t really see a lot of people going into the trades, like becoming plumbers, carpenters. For one thing the pay scale, I mean everything, it’s like everyone wants to do IT…
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - On race as a factor in environmental justice (clip)
Darius Scott (DS): By thinking about the environmental issues that have been faced by Rogers Road, how do you think race factors into those? David Caldwell, Jr.: Well, [laughs] you are in the South! I mean, that’s… that is the South. That’s what, to…
Still Image
Mildred "Mama Dip" Council Wins NC Small Business Person of the Year
Mildred "Mama Dip" Council won North Carolina's Small Businessperson of the Year in 2002 and came in third runner-up in the national contest. Along with her daughter Anita Spring Council, Mrs. Council traveled to the White House in Washington DC to…
Oral History
Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Subdivision (clip)
Charles Brooks: For me, I would say a lot of hard work. Back then if you had your own business you had to put a lot of hard work into it and there was a lot to overcome as far as finances if you wanted to go out and do stuff on your own, it was kind…
Document
"Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina"
The article, "Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina," by Vann R. Newkirk II in The New Yorker details the long history of environmental racism committed by local governments against the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood. The reporter discussed…
Still Image
Eat at Joe's Protest
This was part of continuous protests of all of the segregated restaurants and lunch counters downtown. The Long Meadow Milk truck in the back was used as a paddy wagon to take people to the police department, because department did not have any at…
Exhibit Page
Local Businesses and Organizations
Oral History
Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Differences between Contractors and Subcontractors (clip)
Charles Brooks: Subcontractors usually they are not licensed, especially for like my grandfather and my father, they were carpenters. So, like when I say they subbed that means they would go in once the foundation was put in on a house, they would go…
Oral History
William Smith - Speaking about his masonry career and business
William E. Smith, also known as Smitty, grew up in Durham with his parents and seven brothers. His strongest influence growing up was his grandfather, who he spent a great deal of time with – including helping out on his farm in Orange County. He…
Oral History
David Caldwell, Jr. - On RENA (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Right now I m the project director and the community organizer. And what I do is special projects that come up, I pretty much organize and get them going and get the community organized into participating. We do a Backpack…
Oral History
Vernelle Brooks Jones and Charles Brooks - Becoming Contractors (clip)
Charles Brooks: My grandfather and my father, they started out as subcontractors and they used to do a lot of work for like JP Co. Force Security Builders. They even did some framing for Tate Construction. In the early 70s my father ended up…
Oral History
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…
Oral History
Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"But they just didn’t want us to integrate, that was the biggest problem." - Carol Brooks The interviewees provide an overview of the Chapel Hill Civil Rights Movement. They specifically note the emotion of CRM marches of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and…![Mildred_Council_[Mama_Dip]- (2).png](https://fromtherockwall-files--prod.s3.amazonaws.com/square_thumbnails/Business/Mildred_Council_%5BMama_Dip%5D-_%5B2%5D.jpg "Mildred_Council_[Mama_Dip]- (2).png")
Theme
Business
Before the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 required white restaurants and businesses to open to Black patrons, Black residents served themselves, whether in Durham’s bustling Black business districts or in the Black-owned shops, restaurants, hotel,…
Oral History
Albert "Bruce" Washington - On teaching the trade (clip)
Yvonne Cleveland: What is one thing you would want to share with people today who might be interested in this kind of work? Another question is: do you think this kind of work is still in existence? Albert Washington: Well, it is now, but when I…
Oral History
Handy Campbell, Debra Coleman, and Paul Simmons - On his family, learning masonry, and building projects
This interview focuses on Handy Campbell’s work and family history and how grew up and learned how to be a mason from his father. His father learned from Handy’s grandfather (Judge Campbell). He described learning how to be a bricklayer as a 6 year…
Oral History
