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The Porches of Northside
The front porch. The space between inside and outside, private and public worlds. A place for friends and family to gather and to renew the essential connections that make up community. A place to sit and watch out; a place from which to receive…
Theme
Celebrations
Make a joyful noise (Psalm 100). Celebration is an act of faith, triumph, unity, and renewal. Joyful rituals abound across the past, in the present, and into the future of Black Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Whether after church at the Dairy Bar, during…
Person
David Caldwell, Jr.
A Chapel Hill native, David Caldwell is the Project Director and Community Organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association located in northern Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As part of his position, he collaborates with UNC in research and…
Person
Willie Mae Patterson
"My granddad and my grandma they always had a garden. We grew up with a garden and they canned our food. We had a lot and they would can the vegetables, had a lot of tomatoes so they canned the tomatoes, and string beans, so you didn’t have to go…
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Waters Films Showing Black Residents in Chapel Hill in 1939 (Reel 2)
Photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee from 1936-1942 to film small communities. These videos, which he named “Movies of Local People” aired in local movie theaters, often before…
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Rock Wall
"A lot of people, when they would walk from Northside...walking back, they would just sit on the rock wall right there in front of [Willie Mae Patterson's] house. We used to sit there and just reflect on life and rest." - Keith Edwards, Civil Rights…
Oral History
Cleo Caldwell - On her family's musical talent, growing up in Northside, and returning to the neighborhood
In this interview, Cleo Caldwell, 53, discusses growing up in the Northside neighborhood surrounded by extended family and, in particular, her cousins who became policemen and civil rights activists. Cleo’s mother and sisters were known for their…
Oral History
Thomas Bell - On growing up in Northside, involvement with the community, and the Civil Rights Movement
Thomas Bell, a long time Northside community member and employee at Hillsborough Prison, attended Lincoln High School immediately before the desegregation of Chapel Hill public schools. He reflects on growing up in the Northside (walking to high…
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
Kay Gattis - On her life as a caregiver and her faith
And that’s my life, it's all about Ms. Kay, and I’m still going to help until the day I die. If they need help, I’m going to do it. - Kay Gattis Ms. Kay Gattis describes her upbringing in Chapel Hill, with her parents and eight siblings. She…
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The Rock Wall
When you jumped off the rock wall in Northside, you felt like it was fifty feet high!” - David Caldwell, Jr. At the front edge of the Bradshaw/Patterson home at the corner of Cotton and McDade Streets is a low rock wall that Mr. Atlas Bradshaw and…
Oral History
Nate Davis - On the Hargraves Community Center
Nate Davis remembers that during his childhood, the Hargraves Community Center as a safe space to hang out and play sports with friends, and now, after years of working first part time and then full-time for the Center, he is the director. Davis…
Oral History
Gracie Webb - On changes to the neighborhood and the effects on senior community members
In the interview Mrs. Webb discusses her neighborhood and describes how the house that she grew up in was demolished by the state in order to build a road in its place. Her parents did not want to move but believed that if they refused the state’s…
Oral History
Janie Johnson - On her home, family, elder care, and real estate
"My momma bought a house, four walls that did not have running water, did not have a bathroom, and did not have a kitchen sink. She walked through the door and began working on that house and every year we are still doing renovations to that house.…
Oral History
Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
Edwards discusses her life in Carrboro and how she felt safe within the Black community but unsafe within the city of Carrboro as a whole. She recounts incidents of violence, Ku Klux Klan activity and police intimidation in the 1930s and 1950s. She…
Oral History
Keith Edwards - On the importance of food
“Sundays were always a special day. That whole day was made into just like a holiday. - Keith Edwards This interview includes Keith Edwards’s viewpoint on the importance of food in the home and in the community. She recalls specific recipes in the…
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
Dolores Clark - On the history of Black builders in her family
This interview is part of a series on Black builders in Orange County. Dolores Clark, a long-term resident of Chapel Hill, explains how her family has a history of building several structures, including university buildings, homes, and churches in…
Oral History
Alice Battle - On her experiences in Chapel Hill before integration
This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former…
Oral History
Edwin Caldwell, Jr. - On his childhood and interactions between Black and white community members
This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former…
Oral History
Brentton Harrison - On growing up in Northside, Heavenly Groceries, and the Jackson Center
This interview provides Brentton Harrison’s early biographical information, reflections on his father’s life as a Reverend and his life growing up in Northside including participation in a band while in high school. He shares his involvement with…
Oral History
Anita Spring Council and Annette “Neecy” Council - On Their Family History and Family Businesses
"Yeah our friends would be going to the ball games and going here and then we had to go to work. But then when it came down to going to McDonald’s or whatever we had the money to buy it and they didn’t, so that was the good part about it." - Annette…
Oral History
Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside
Keith Edwards has lived at the same address on McDade St. in Northside since she was born but now resides in a different house, built with support from a development grant that Chapel Hill received in the early 1970s. She became the first black…
Oral History
