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Mae McLendon - On motherhood and attending UNC
“I was a member of the Black Student Movement. It was like a year old when I got there so I was very active in that. I was the off-campus minister. We would go to the football games and not stand for the national anthem…as a form of protest.”
- Mae McLendonr
In this interview, Mae McLendon sits down…
Mae McLendon - On motherhood and attending UNC
Mark Royster - On his family, community, and church
Rev. Mark Royster is the minister of Cedar Rock Missionary Baptist Church in New Hill, NC. He has spent decades working as a banker (VP of SunTrust), minister, school board member (leader of the Blue Ribbon Task Force), and community developer and activist in Orange County, and has strong ties to…
Mark Royster - On his family, community, and church
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 tells the story of Hargraves starting in the 1940s. It…
Nate Davis - On the Hargraves Community Center
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"There were people that walked [to Orange County Training School] from Knolls Development which was down off of Crest Street which is now Knolls Street and people walked from there, and people walked from Windy Hill...They had school buses but we were not allowed to ride school buses."
- Mary…
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