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- Up one level
- Chapel Hill's Community History (with podcast)
In September, 2017 Mayor Pam Hemminger charged the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations (HCRC) Task Force with the creation of a timeline that identifies people, places and events “significant in the town’s Civil Rights struggle so that they may be commemorated in historical context by the Town, including the sit-in at the Colonial Drugstore and the Lincoln High Students (‘Chapel Hill Nine’) whose actions ignited the integration movement in Chapel Hill.” This initiative created a model for ongoing community engagement in collaboration with local government.
Taskforce Members:
James Britt
Ken Broun
Sally Greene
Reginald Hildebrand
Dianne Jackson
Danita Mason-Hogans
OJ McGee
Mae McLendon
Jim Merritt
Cecelia Moore
Clyde Perry
Megan Stanley
Albert Williams
William Sturkey.
Includes a two-season podcast
- CHCCS honors Stan Vickers after 60th anniversary of desegregation efforts
Kelli Rainer, Daily Tar Heel, August 29, 2021
When he was 10 years old, Stan Vickers' family filed a lawsuit against the Chapel Hill City Board of Education to gain entry into Carrboro Elementary School where, at the time, only white students were allowed to attend.
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Speaking in a video( https://vimeo.com/585985343) CHCCS released to honor the anniversary, Vickers talked about the experience he and his family had in desegregating the local school system.
- James Cates | Remembering and Reckoning
Center for the Study of the American South, November 18, 2020
This Re/Collecting Chapel Hill podcast episode shares the story of James Cates. The episode features Mike Ogle’s research and the voices of community members who knew Cates, including those with him when he died.
- Remembering Chapel Hill: The Twentieth Century as We Lived it
Valarie Schwartz · 2009. The History Press, Charleston SC