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Civil Rights Story Circle - On their experiences in Chapel Hill in the 1960s
Freedom fighters Euyvonne Cotton, James Foushee, William Carter, Linda Brown, Keith Edwards, and Marion Phillips gathered upstairs at St. Joseph C.M.E. to talk about their experiences as young people in the freedom movement in Chapel Hill 1960-1964. Spurred by the recent publication of Courage in…
Civil Rights Story Circle - On their experiences in Chapel Hill in the 1960s
David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career, community, and the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
In the interview, Caldwell touches on the following points: his early family life on Rogers Road, which was underdeveloped and exploited; his experiences of discrimination and inequality at Phillips Middle School and Chapel Hill High; attending NCCU on a basketball scholarship; time in the air…
David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career, community, and the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
David Mason, Jr. - On Black communities in Chapel Hill
This interview provides an overview of Black communities in Chapel Hill during Mason's life. He notes the consequences of having segregated communities and outdated infrastructures. His employment was at UNC Chapel Hill and he was employed at an early age at several local restaurants. He talks about…
David Mason, Jr. - On Black communities in Chapel Hill
Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee - On his family, nickname, and experiences working
"...we called it Tin Top, because all the houses that were on top had [roofs] with tin on it."
- Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee
This interview provides insight into the background of Donny “Hollywood” Riggsbee, a long-term Northside neighborhood resident. He shares his experiences living with 12…
Donny "Hollywood" Riggsbee - On his family, nickname, and experiences working
Edna Lyde - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"People have got to stand up for themselves. Black or white. If you don’t stand up for yourself, ain’t nobody going to do it for you."
- Edna Lyde
Edna Lyde, born in 1928 in Darlington, SC, recounts how being Black impacted her experience within her family, at the workplace, and in her community in…
Edna Lyde - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
Edwin Caldwell - On working as a Black man and interactions with police
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…
Edwin Caldwell - On working as a Black man and interactions with police
Fred Battle - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"I would always look as I would walk down the corridors of the hall in Lincoln, and I could still hear some of the teachers speaking now. Giving guidance, giving direction, giving praise, and all the motivation we would need to excel as students, excel as athletes."
- Fred Battle
Fred Battle was…
Fred Battle - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
James "Jim" Wallace - Speaking about the Civil Rights Movement and his photography
In this interview, Wallace speaks about Civil rights in Chapel Hill, resistance within the movement, and differences of thought. He also talks about Karen Parker, the first black Woman to graduate from UNC. The interview also includes discussion of Jim Wallace’s photos, photos used in schools to…
James "Jim" Wallace - Speaking about the Civil Rights Movement and his photography
James Foushee - On the Civil Rights Movement, family, and Northside
Foushee speaks on growing up in Northside which includes his educational experiences, and his family overview. He goes into the dynamics of his relationship with his aunt. Furthermore, he talks about his relationship with his neighbor. He takes the listener through the beginning and organization of…
James Foushee - On the Civil Rights Movement, family, and Northside
Katherine Council - On education, changes in the community, and racial discrimination
“I really think with children, it didn’t matter. It was the adults that were having problems.” (In reference to integration)
- Katherine "Mama Kat" Council
Ms. Council, fondly known as Mama Kat, grew up on a farm in Chapel Hill down Jones Ferry Road and has lived in various places in the area her…
Katherine Council - On education, changes in the community, and racial discrimination
Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
Edwards discusses her life in Carrboro and how she felt safe within the Black community but unsafe within the city of Carrboro as a whole. She recounts incidents of violence, Ku Klux Klan activity and police intimidation in the 1930s and 1950s. She moved to Chapel Hill to be provided a different,…
Keith Edwards - On Carrboro, gentrification, and white students' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside
Keith Edwards has lived at the same address on McDade St. in Northside since she was born but now resides in a different house, built with support from a development grant that Chapel Hill received in the early 1970s. She became the first black female police officer at UNC in 1974 and later won a…
Keith Edwards - On housing and gentrification in Northside
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
Walter Durham - On school integration, his childhood, and race
“[Lincoln] was a school that you could go in and… no paper on the school campus. Hallway shines like new money all the time. You could drink out of the commode in the bathroom. And it was kept just that clean.”
- Walter Durham
Walter Durham discusses growing up as part of a large family on his…
Walter Durham - On school integration, his childhood, and race