Theodore ("Ted") Parrish
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Chapel Hill Historical Society Book Launch Event (link to publicity flyer)Friday, November 21, 2025 at 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Ted Parrish's sister Virginia Barbee and Donna Rowan-Edwards present Virginia Barbee's Autobiography, Forgive.
Ted and Jackie Parrish present Ted's memoir, Brazen: Race, Gentrification, and the Path of My Own Life, with commentary by Dr. John Hatch, DrPH
Publisher: Chapel Hill Historical Society- Brazen: Race, Gentrification, and the Path of My Own Life - Google BooksTheodore Parrish, Anna Schoenbach, editor. Chapel Hill Historical Society, 2025. The autobiography of Theodore Parrish, and his story of growing up in America as a black man
- A conversation with John Hatch and Ted Parrish, May 30, 2019John Hatch arranged for Ted and Jackie Parrish to record a conversation in his living room in May 2019 to talk about Ted's work with housing and tenants rights in Boston. (Amateur video recording by Victor Schoenbach.)
- Chapel Hill Historical Society biographyTed and Jacqueline Parrish have six children, most of whom were educated in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Schools. Ted noted that, in the local educational system at the time, the highest ranking for a black student had been 128th from the top of the class. This situation had inspired him to run for a position on the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School Board, where he served for sixteen (16) years.
- NCCU Department of Public Health Education history
- Northside and Pine Knolls NeighborhoodsThe Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods are historically black neighborhoods that have a deep-rooted history in Chapel Hill. The identity of Chapel Hill and these historic neighborhoods are deeply intertwined, though at times they can be at odds. Due to the ongoing growth of Chapel Hill, one of the biggest challenges facing the long-standing residents of the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods is the rising cost of housing. [Victor Schoenbach found an archived copy of this page in the Internet Archive on 11/29/2024, but it does not always display.]
- Pine Knolls Community Housing ProgramThe Northside News, Vol. VII, Issue 10, June 2018, p2
Pine Knolls residents and community leaders Virginia Barbee and Ted Parrish started the Pine Knolls Community Housing Program in the early 90's in order to, as Ms. Barbee says, "save our houses." - The Jackson Center has built community for years in Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoodsRebecca Ayers, The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 2018
Officially founded as a nonprofit in 2012, the Marian Cheek Jackson Center has grown and dedicated its purpose to building community in Chapel Hill's historic Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods. [Page does not mention Ted Parrish by name, but he helped to build this community. - Retired NCCU professor Ted Parrish sees promise in Chapel Hill’s Pine Knolls communityMark Schultz, News & Observer, July 31, 2016
Parrish, 82, a retired professor of public health at N.C. Central University, has been renovating the center since his board took the building back from the Boys & Girls Clubs a couple of months ago. - Tenants Development Corporation
Founded in 1968, TDC has been operating for over 40 years, developing affordable housing in Boston’s historic South End neighborhood. TDC was conceived and organized by low income renters, principally African-American tenants, who were distressed over the sub-standard and hazardous housing conditions to which they were subjected to live in many areas of the South End. (Archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.) - Spotlight on Blockbusting(Diocesan Press Service, August 10, 1969:77-25) By Ernest Boynton, who was assigned by the Executive Council to report on Boston's South End Tenants Council, a community organization funded by the General Convention Special Program.
Theodore Parrish is a dynamic black social worker who has organized marginal income black families, home owners, ADC mothers, pimps, prostitutes and junkies into Boston's South End Tenants Council. - Students to Unite for South EndWellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive, The Wellesley News (Friday, 02-28-1969, page 8) [WCA_6PN_WNews_1969-02-28 in the Wellesley College Digital Repository] [View only the PDF
- Ted Parrish activities with the Town of Chapel HillThis page will display a pre-filled search box. Here are some of the results I see:
- Orange County Health Department, Town of Chapel Hill, https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › agendas To All Concerned,. I was asked by Ted Parrish to re-inspect the Pines Community Center in ...
- https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › records › minutes Ted Parrish stated that EmPOWERment, Inc. and the Knolls Development Association were working together to provide homeownership opportunities in the Knolls ...
- MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL ..., Town of Chapel Hill Feb 13, 1995 — Ted Parrish, representing the Knolls Development Association,. presented a certificate of appreciation to the Town Council and Town staff for ...
- https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › Minutes, May 14, 1973 — Ted Parrish asked what role citizen groups will have under the new organization. Mayor. Lee said the same as they have now. Ms. Perry asked ...
- Pines Community Center, Inc. Chapel Hill, NC 27516, https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › 2006/02/27, We will of course appreciate the support of your office. Ted Parrish, Housing Coordinator. Cc. Delores Bailey, Loryn Clark. Pines Community Center, Inc. Board ...
- MINUTES OF A PUBLIC HEARING HELD BY THE MAYOR ..., Ts Mar 29, 1994 — Ted Parrish, representing Knolls Development Corporation, requested the Council's continued support for affordable housing programs in the ...
- Mayor Howes called the meeting to order. https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › records › minutes, Feb 12, 1990 — Dr. Ted Parrish, speaking on behalf of residents of Pine Knolls area, encouraged the Council to purchase two vacant lots on Johnson Street as ...
- MINUTES OF A PUBLIC HEARING HELD BY THE MAYOR ..., Town of Chapel Hill Jan 30, 1995 — Ted Parrish expressed appreciation to the Council for their support of the Knolls Development Association's neighborhood revitalization programs ...
- Item 2a Public Hearing on Proposed Amendment to the . . ., https://townhall.townofchapelhill.org › records › minutes, Feb 23, 1998 — Ted Parrish, representing the Knolls Development Association, said that his organization relied on volunteers and therefore could not, and ...