North Carolina A&T
Betty King - On growing up in Chapel Hill, family, and Lincoln High School
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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Betty King - On growing up in Chapel Hill, family, and Lincoln High School
Delaine Norwood - On her childhood, family, and education
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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Delaine Norwood - On her childhood, family, and education
Doug Clark, Sr. - On growing up in Chapel Hill and high school
Doug Clark, Sr., a musician, was born in Chapel Hill in 1936, where he lived in a close-knit Black neighborhood and attended Orange County Training School, which became Lincoln High School. He reflects on his family life and experiences growing up, such as seeing lines of Black children walk to…
Doug Clark, Sr. - On growing up in Chapel Hill and high school
Everett Goldston - On teaching before and after school 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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Everett Goldston - On teaching before and after school integration
Fred Battle - On his childhood, education, sit-ins, and school 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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Fred Battle - On his childhood, education, sit-ins, and school integration
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 in getting me to want to run for public office…
Hilliard Caldwell - Speaking about his childhood, family, and race
Janie Alston - On her childhood, civil rights, and the Hargraves family
The interview includes the history of the Hargraves family: her great-grandfather, Jerry Hargraves had a role in the founding of St. Paul's. Nineteen children were born to her grandparents, Della Weaver and Luther Hargraves, the first black mortician in the area. He also built houses in Northside.…
Janie Alston - On her childhood, civil rights, and the Hargraves family
Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On family, faith, and the importance of heritage and land
“The connection is that the faith that backs me is my support and my strength. The you don’t give up. You keep fighting.”
- Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes
Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes has been an important member and leader of Chapel Hill since growing up and living in the community for most of her life. She…
Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On family, faith, and the importance of heritage and land
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
"I went to North Carolina, I played football at North Carolina A&T, where I received a BS degree, and as a matter of fact, I was instrumental in the boycott in '62-'63, where we desegregated the Woolworths."
- Fred Battle
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina…
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Polly McCauley - On growing up in Chapel Hill and her educational experiences
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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Polly McCauley - On growing up in Chapel Hill and her educational experiences
R. D. Smith - About his childhood, career in education, and school 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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
R. D. Smith - About his childhood, career in education, and school integration
Rebecca Clark - On her childhood, education, and school 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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Rebecca Clark - On her childhood, education, and school integration
Rodney Taylor - On community involvement
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series.
Rodney Taylor Sr., a current member and trustee at Barbee’s Chapel Baptist Church, has had a lifelong passion for community involvement. Mr. Taylor was born on June 26, 1958 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His…
Rodney Taylor Sr., a current member and trustee at Barbee’s Chapel Baptist Church, has had a lifelong passion for community involvement. Mr. Taylor was born on June 26, 1958 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His…
Rodney Taylor - On community involvement
Thurman Couch - On his childhood, family, and school integration
This interview with Thurman Couch covers growing up in Chapel Hill during high school in the 1950-60s. He attended Lincoln High School before it was shut down in 1962, and then he attended Chapel Hill High School. Couch reflects on his lifestyle, neighborhood, family, religion, school, football…
Thurman Couch - On his childhood, family, and school integration
Vivian Foushee - Speaking about growing up in Chapel Hill
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 teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…
Vivian Foushee - Speaking about growing up in Chapel Hill
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