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Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and 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…
Clyde Perry - On his childhood, family, education, and integration
David Kirkman - On his childhood, school integration, and career as a lawyer
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…
David Kirkman - On his childhood, school integration, and career as a lawyer
Henry Atwater and Charles Weaver - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
"Chapel Hill and Carrboro have been fighting each other for a long time. Ever since I was born. About where the city limits are, what they do, and how they’re going to do this. That’s why you’ve got the mayor of Chapel Hill and the Mayor of Carrboro. Chapel Hill has been trying to take over Carrboro…
Henry Atwater and Charles Weaver - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill
Linda and Terry Carver - On integration, race in Chapel Hill, and medical access
The interview includes discussions about growing up in Chapel Hill during the Civil Rights era and highlights traits of early Chapel Hill life for African American families prior to integration. Both discuss the availability of medical facility access for blacks, how the community operated as a…
Linda and Terry Carver - On integration, race in Chapel Hill, and medical access
Regina Merritt - On food bringing people together
In this oral history, Regina Merritt discusses what her life was like growing up on a farm. From the beginning of the interview, it is clear that her grandmother was the centerpiece of her family. She cooked for not only her own family members, but also for anyone in the community who needed food.…
Regina Merritt - On food bringing people together
Russell Edwards - On his family, faith, health, and upbringing
Russell Edwards grew up in Chapel Hill and has watched, as well as experienced, many situations that African-Americans dealt with both before, during, and after the civil rights movement took place. He resides in one of the historic African American communities of Chapel Hill and shares his opinions…
Russell Edwards - On his family, faith, health, and upbringing
Stanley Vickers - On his childhood, family, and school integration
“I got the sense that it was more than just a job to them [teachers]. I really got the sense from my teachers that they cared about me.”
- Stanley Vickers
Stanley Vickers has been a member of the Chapel Hill community for a long time. He grew up in Carrboro and attended both Lincoln High School and…
Stanley Vickers - On his childhood, family, and school integration
Willie "Brad" Bradshaw - On his childhood, education, and career coaching sports
“If you have good football teams, it permeates throughout the entire school and it helps the other things that you’re going to do come up to par, come up to snuff or whatever you want to call it. It cuts down on a lot of discipline problems. Kids want to do more in school, because they see the…
Willie "Brad" Bradshaw - On his childhood, education, and career coaching sports
