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Sylvester Hackney - On growing up in Chapel Hill and school integration
“For me, high school was a good experience because I had my friends. We were in this big environment, and we had to stick together. We learned to love each other and care about each other. We didn’t know it, but we were nurturing each other.”
- Sylvester Hackney
Sylvester Hackney, a native of rural…
Sylvester Hackney - On growing up in Chapel Hill and school integration
Willie "Brad" Bradshaw - On his childhood, education, and career coaching sports
“If you have good football teams, it permeates throughout the entire school and it helps the other things that you’re going to do come up to par, come up to snuff or whatever you want to call it. It cuts down on a lot of discipline problems. Kids want to do more in school, because they see the…
Willie "Brad" Bradshaw - On his childhood, education, and career coaching sports
Work and Labor
Working at the University has been a source of pride and resentment for Northside neighbors who built the early dorms, hospital, South Building, laid the brick walkways, hauled washing water from the “old well” to students in Old East, did copious amounts of laundry 7 days/week for $14 (which could…
Work and Labor