Tin Top
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
Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee - On growing up in Chapel Hill, segregation, and his work experiences
Donny ‘Hollywood’ Riggsbee, resident of Chapel Hill, gives his biography during his time in in the town. He describes his youth, growing with 10 siblings, how his mother worked in a kitchen and how the kids worked while growing up. He talks about racial experiences in the form of his employer (Big…
Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee - On growing up in Chapel Hill, segregation, and his work experiences
Keith Edwards - On growing up in Carrboro and the role of teachers
“The thing I remember the most coming up in the Black community, the Black community supported the schools, not only financially, but they also supported the schools by parents having involvement in the children’s schooling.”
- Keith Edwards
Keith Edwards was born in 1950 and grew up in Carrboro and…
Keith Edwards - On growing up in Carrboro and the role of teachers
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
Shirley Bradshaw - 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…
Shirley Bradshaw - On her childhood, education, and school integration
Tin Top
"If you come across the railroad track, you’re going to run into Brewer Lane. And when you get there from Brewer Lane, and you come on around the curve, right there is Hargraves Street. That was Tin Top. That little area was up there, Tin Top."
- Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee
The Tin Top neighborhood…
Tin Top
