UNC Hospitals
Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"But they just didn’t want us to integrate, that was the biggest problem."
- Carol Brooks
The interviewees provide an overview of the Chapel Hill Civil Rights Movement. They specifically note the emotion of CRM marches of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham in 1963. They speak on Watt’s Hotel…
Carol Brooks and Keith Edwards - On the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
Memorial Hospital
"And that was 1952, when the hospital was opened. That's when jobs really became available. And then, if you got a job at the university hospital, twenty-five dollars a week, a hundred dollars a month. That was a long way from paying seven dollars a week."
- Rebecca Clark
"My grandmother didn't do…
Memorial Hospital
Mildred Council - On food, business, and Mama Dip's
Food is inextricably woven into Mildred Council’s life story. She grew up on a farm outside of Chapel Hill and cooked mostly out of necessity, and her main concerns were cost and practicality. She started learning from her father when she was nine years old, and as she grew up she held different…
Mildred Council - On food, business, and Mama Dip's
Patricia Jackson - On St. Joseph CME Church from 1970-1974
"Well, it was always a place [the church] you could come to gain and find out the needs of the community."
- Patricia "Pat" Jackson
This interview is a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s faith series. In this interview, Pat Jackson discusses the life and legacy of Reverend Charles L. Hilton,…
Patricia Jackson - On St. Joseph CME Church from 1970-1974
