Smith Middle School
Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On Pottersfield and Smith Middle School
"...there was a movement in the town among the parents to change the name of the school because they didn't like their school children going to a training school. Training school has a negative connotation. And even when I would go back that first year or so and my friends would say, 'Where are you…
Euzelle and R.D. Smith - On Pottersfield and Smith Middle School
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
R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School
"They were saying, 'We want Black history courses in this school. We feel like everybody ought to have a knowledge for what the Blacks have contributed to this society.' And yet the textbooks don't even a carry a thing about it...I don't intend for that to happen at R.D. Smith and Euzelle B. Smith's…
R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School
Willis Farrington - On growing up in Northside, his ministry, and changes in Chapel Hill
This interview is part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s Life History Series. Reverend Willis Farrington, a leader of St. Joseph CME Church, was born in Chapel Hill and spent the entirety of his childhood running the streets of Northside and the Roberson Street Community Center. Reverend…
Willis Farrington - On growing up in Northside, his ministry, and changes in Chapel Hill
