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David Caldwell Jr - On the Beginnings of Community Organization (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): By then I was with the sheriff’s department, and worked with them in ‘85, and stayed until 2008, my retirement.
Blanche Brown (BB): Wow, you’ve been busy [laughs].
DC: Yeah, and while I was there, I got my second degree from Mount Olive College in Criminal Justice. I got…
David Caldwell Jr - On the Beginnings of Community Organization (clip)
David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career, community, and the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
"...and the thing about it was that you got to know there were very few activists that really knew what was going on with the enforcement and the same thing very few enforcers know what’s going on with the activists so it just made everyone—all of us more knowledgeable when people were talking we…
David Caldwell, Jr. - On his career, community, and the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
Nate Davis - On the Hargraves Community Center
"...people in the community got together and said we need this facility.
- Nate Davis
Nate Davis remembers that during his childhood, the Hargraves Community Center as a safe space to hang out and play sports with friends, and now, after years of working first part time and then full-time for the…
Nate Davis - On the Hargraves Community Center
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
