Chronology

Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law

A report prepared by George Esser at the aldermen's request, gathering cases from all fifty states on a town's power to pass a public accommodations law, was completed and handed to Town Manager Robert Peck for the aldermen days before their vote. Esser said it showed the probable attitude of North Carolina courts toward a town using its general welfare power for that purpose.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

Subject: Institute of Government

Survey finds N.C. Memorial Hospital still separates patients by race

A Daily Tar Heel survey of Chapel Hill accommodations listed North Carolina Memorial Hospital among places keeping segregation, with director E. B. Crawford Jr. saying the hospital had two floors of mostly Black patients and did not generally integrate patient rooms.

Part of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the medical center, from 1952 · 24 events

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Thirty-nine demonstrators are arrested sitting on the steps of Brady's Restaurant

On a Sunday night, 39 demonstrators, seven of them white, were arrested after sitting three deep on the front steps of the segregated Brady's Restaurant and blocking the door. The night before, 53 had been arrested in sit-downs in front of Brady's and the Rock Pile.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: The Rock Pile

Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students

At the Chapel Hill school board meeting, Mrs. Gloria Williams, speaking for parents of students who had joined the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee's boycott of Lincoln High School, asked that all of them be readmitted. The board upheld the expulsion of two senior leaders, Henry Sanford and James Brittain, after Superintendent Howard Thompson said he would resign if they returned.

Part of Segregated schooling and the rise of Lincoln and Central High Schools · 45 events

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School · Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

A Klan rally gathers at the post office fast and a UNC student is struck

On the fast's seventh day a Ku Klux Klan rally drew onlookers to the Franklin Street post office, where textile worker Milford Cordell Hill of Gold Hill struck UNC senior Louis S. Calhoun Jr. and knocked off his glasses; police officers who saw it swore out complaints.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

The Holy Week fast ends on Easter Sunday and the Rev. LaVert Taylor is hospitalized

The five fasters finished their eight-day water-only fast in front of the post office on Easter Sunday. The Rev. LaVert Taylor of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was admitted to Memorial Hospital with an upset stomach afterward; James Foushee had been treated there during the fast and released.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Pat Cusick

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

The Committee of Concerned Citizens raises about $400 for injured demonstrators and the hospitalized faster

Committee members served bread and cheese for donations twice a day in the basement of the First Baptist Church, raising about $400 to cover the hospital bills of demonstrators hurt in sit-ins and of the Rev. LaVert Taylor after the fast.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill

Supreme Court lets stand the ruling against segregated hospitals built with federal funds

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, leaving in place the Fourth Circuit's November 1, 1963 ruling that Greensboro hospitals built with Hill-Burton money could not segregate doctors or patients. The Daily Tar Heel carried the decision on its front page.

Judge Mallard sentences fasters Pat Cusick and John Dunne to a year in jail

In Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough, Judge Raymond B. Mallard gave Pat Cusick a year in jail on April 23 and John Dunne twelve months on April 24 for the February street-blocking demonstrations, among a dozen active sentences and about 100 suspended ones that stripped the Chapel Hill movement of its leaders four weeks after the fast.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Pat Cusick

Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast

Judge William S. Stewart fined Milford Cordell Hill $50 and costs for striking Louis S. Calhoun Jr. at the scene of the fast on March 28, on complaints sworn out by the police officers who saw it.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Austin Watts and his staff attack civil rights testers at Watts Restaurant

The night after the Civil Rights Act was signed, a mixed group of testers seeking service at Watts Restaurant was turned away and, the testers said, attacked with fists and clubs, and owner Austin Watts was charged with striking Pete Leak. Watts was convicted of assault in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on July 21 and fined the costs of court.

Clarence's Bar and Grill turns away an integrated group the day after the Civil Rights Act

Five white people and one Black person asked for service at Clarence's Bar and Grill on West Franklin Street. Owner Clarence Gray refused them, saying he thought one of them was drunk. Testers visited other Chapel Hill restaurants that weekend as well.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Sixty-six Black parents petition the county board to stop running schools by race

Led by the retired Cedar Grove teacher Hassie Vanhook Gattis, 66 parents signed a petition asking the Orange County board to stop operating its schools on a racial basis. It charged that the board had kept a dual system since the 1954 Brown ruling in disregard of the law.

Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm

Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County.

Subject: Bolin Brook Farm (Troy and Roberta Andrews House)

Central Elementary School is built north of West Hillsborough

Planned as a segregated school for Black pupils next to Central High School, the flat-roofed brick and concrete building designed by Archie Royal Davis was finished a few years before desegregation and then served an integrated student body. Additions followed in 1975 and during the 1990s.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Only 7 percent of the county's Black pupils attend an integrated school

At the start of the 1965-66 school year, about 7 percent of the Orange County system's Black students were enrolled in an integrated school.

Ruth Anderson Stephens becomes the first Black graduate of UNC's School of Nursing

Ruth Anderson Stephens completed the School of Nursing's master's program in nursing education and administration in 1965, the school's first African American graduate.

The Historic Hillsborough Commission buys the Burwell School

The commission bought the house from the Spurgeon children and began restoring it to look as it had after the 1848 enlargement.

Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events

Subject: Burwell School

The county board asks the commissioners to back a desegregation plan and Black members on school boards

Facing federal compliance rules, the board met the county commissioners and asked for two Black members on the Board of Education, integration of schools, buses and staff, Black members on district committees and signature of the federal compliance form.

Three Black students desegregate Aycock School in Cedar Grove

Under the county's Freedom of Choice plan, three Black families asked for their children to be transferred to the white Aycock School, and on May 20, 1965 the three students were assigned and began attending. United States Marshals escorted at least one of them.

Subject: Aycock School

Cedar Grove families answer the county's freedom-of-choice forms

The county sent 401 school-choice forms to Cedar Grove School families at the end of the 1964-65 year. Fifty-two made no choice, three asked for all-white Aycock Elementary and four for Orange Junior High.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

The Ku Klux Klan calls a rally in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant

Robed Klansmen handed out bills in Hillsborough for a night rally at Interstate 85 and US 70, where scores of hooded members were expected in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant.

The county board adopts a school desegregation plan

After most of a year spent trying to reach a plan acceptable under federal rules, the Orange County Board of Education adopted a desegregation plan on September 7, 1965.

A House committee names the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan unit in Orange County

The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating the Ku Klux Klan, named the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan organization in Orange County. Sheriff C. B. Knight told the Daily Tar Heel that three Klan meetings had been held in the county recently.

Northside Elementary closed as the school system integrated

The Caldwell Street school closed soon after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools began mandatory integration in 1966, and the building was turned into office space.

Part of School desegregation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1959–1967 · 24 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground

Oscar Beasley and Arthur Wells of the Cedar Grove Advisory Council asked the board to paint the lunchroom, hang doors on the girls' restroom and give the school a hard-surfaced playground. The board granted part of the request.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

J. Carlyle Sitterson serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill

Sitterson was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16, 1966 to January 31, 1972. His records as chancellor cover desegregation and the federal HEW lawsuit, the Speaker Ban law, protest against the Vietnam War and campus unrest.

Hortense McClinton joins the UNC School of Social Work as the university's first Black faculty member

McClinton turned down a grant-funded UNC offer in 1964 and accepted a better-funded position in the School of Social Work in July 1966. She was the only Black faculty member at UNC for three years.

Chapel Hill High School graduates its first desegregated class

The class of 1967 was the first to finish at the merged Chapel Hill High School. The school board then debated the fate of the empty Lincoln building through 1969 and 1970, and voted to keep it for school use after sustained objection from Black residents to selling it.

People: Robert Campbell · Stella Nickerson

Subject: Chapel Hill High School · Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Chapel Hill opens its first public housing at Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street

Chapel Hill's first public housing neighborhoods were Craig-Gomains (40 units) and Lindsay Street (9 units), both built in 1967. Both remain in the town's 296-unit, 12-neighborhood public housing portfolio.

Central High School becomes A. L. Stanback School

After Central High's last high school class graduated in 1968 and its older students moved to Orange High School, the school was renamed for its longtime principal A. L. Stanback and became an elementary school.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Chapel Hill adds five more public housing neighborhoods

North Columbia Street (1968), South Estes Drive (1970), and Airport Gardens, Rainbow Heights and South Roberson Street (all 1972) extended the town's public housing after the first two 1967 sites.

Gloria Williams directs the Chapel Hill Housing Authority

Gloria Williams was director of the Chapel Hill Housing Authority from 1968 until it merged with the town's Redevelopment Commission in September 1973, when she became assistant director. In 1969 she was the contact for placing families in the town's first public housing.

Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium

Under Superintendent G. Paul Carr the county finished Stanford Junior High, a main classroom building for about 800 pupils, a second for about 225 and a gymnasium, on the 100-acre tract it shares with Orange High.

Subject: Orange High School

Stonemason John Wesley Campbell, builder of Northside stone houses, dies

John Wesley Campbell, born about 1888 to a white father and a Black mother and trained in masonry from age seven, died in 1968. He worked on UNC buildings, Memorial Hospital and Franklin Street stores, built stone houses and the Hargraves Center in Northside, and taught the trade to his five sons and other Black masons.

Principal George Pierce and Arthur Wells ask for basketball goals and better lighting

Cedar Grove principal George Pierce and advisory council chairman Arthur Wells asked the board for basketball goals, better lighting, doors for the boys' restrooms and supplies for the lunchroom.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Chapel Hill aldermen approve an open housing ordinance 3 to 2 on first reading

Weeks after the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. and a petition signed by about 2,200 people, the Board of Aldermen voted 3 to 2 for a local ban on discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. The margin fell short of the two-thirds needed to pass on first reading, so the measure went to a second vote.

People: Sandy McClamroch

The county board presents a plan to end its dual school system to federal civil rights officials

After the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told Orange County to give up freedom of choice and balance its schools by race, the board met with Walter Warfield of the Office for Civil Rights' education branch to present its plan for ending separate Black and white schools. The plan took effect in 1969-70.

Chapel Hill adopts North Carolina's first local open housing ordinance

On second reading the Board of Aldermen passed the open housing ordinance 4 to 0, effective immediately, making it a misdemeanor for an owner to discriminate by religion, race, color or national origin in selling or renting property in town. The penalty was a fine of up to $50 or up to 30 days in jail.

People: Sandy McClamroch

Belton Edwards, a Black member, joins the county Board of Education

When A. B. Coleman resigned from the board in May 1968, Belton Edwards, whom Pender identifies as Black, took his place. The board had asked the county commissioners in 1965 for two Black members.

Alethea Burt retires from teaching at Central High School

Alethea Burt, who had led Ridge Road School until it closed in 1951 and then moved with her pupils to teach the elementary grades at Central High School in Hillsboro, retired at the end of the 1968-69 year.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Blyden Jackson joins UNC's English department and becomes its first tenured Black professor

Blyden Jackson joined the UNC-Chapel Hill English department in 1969 and became the university's first tenured Black faculty member. He established the study of African American literature at Carolina and later served as assistant dean of the Graduate School, working to recruit Black faculty and students.

Hank Anderson directs the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department

Henry "Hank" Anderson III, who took a master's degree in recreation administration at UNC in 1969, directed the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department from 1969 to 1977.

Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration

For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools.

Subject: Orange High School · Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · Efland schools · Cameron Park School · Cedar Grove schools · Aycock School

Orange High School is enlarged with new buildings

Six years after it opened as the county's consolidated high school, Orange High near Hillsborough added buildings in 1969 under the new superintendent George F. Williams.

Subject: Orange High School

Governor Scott orders Lenoir Hall reopened under Highway Patrol guard

After Chancellor Sitterson closed Lenoir Hall on March 5 during the foodworkers' strike, Governor Bob Scott ordered it reopened, sent at least 50 state patrolmen to Chapel Hill and mobilized a National Guard unit in Durham. The dining hall opened the next morning with more than 40 riot-equipped troopers and about 25 Chapel Hill police at its entrances while as many as 300 people picketed.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Lenoir Hall

State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders

About 75 state troopers ringed Manning Hall, the striking food workers' headquarters, on the afternoon of March 13 after Governor Bob Scott ordered it vacated. Students left before police arrived, and a crowd of up to 1,000 then rallied on the steps of South Building.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: South Building

Cedar Grove's advisory council petitions to keep the school open

As the county prepared to integrate its schools, the Cedar Grove Advisory Council brought the board a petition asking that Cedar Grove School run fully through 1969-70 and that the integration plan be reconsidered. The council said the community did not intend to give up its school.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Howard Lee and Roland Giduz meet in an open forum at the Newman Center

About 100 people heard the two mayoral candidates differ on the Mitchell Lane open storm drain, a local option sales tax, the Inter-Church Council low-income housing project and developers' seats on the Planning Board. Lee called the drain the town's responsibility; Giduz, twelve years an alderman, was asked why it had not been covered.

People: Howard N. Lee · Roland Giduz

Subject: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government

Lee, Giduz and all seven candidates for the Board of Aldermen took questions at an open forum. Sharp exchanges came over a police review board, which Lee said he had never favored, and over whether the town should pay to cover the Mitchell Lane drain, on which Giduz cited county health tests and Steve Bernholz answered that 'the ditch stinks'.

People: Howard N. Lee · Roland Giduz

Subject: Institute of Government

Rebecca Clark carries voters to the polls in Howard Lee's mayoral campaign

Clark worked on Howard Lee's campaign for mayor, sending her son's Greyhound bus street to street to take voters to the polls, and helped count ballots by hand on election night. Lee won the May 6, 1969 election.

People: Howard N. Lee

Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall

More than 140 people packed the second-floor room of Town Hall for the 7:30 p.m. meeting at which town clerk Roberts swore in Lee after outgoing mayor Sandy McClamroch reviewed his ten years in office. New aldermen Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George Coxhead and Ross Scroggs were sworn in, and Lee's first board elected David Ethridge mayor pro tem.

People: Howard N. Lee · Sandy McClamroch

UNC hands campus dining to the SAGA Food Service contract

Two months after settling the spring strike the University signed a contract with SAGA Food Services on May 19, 1969, ending its own management of campus dining. SAGA laid off many temporary and part-time workers within weeks, which set up the second strike that autumn.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Subject: Lenoir Hall

Cedar Grove School closes under the county's integration plan

The county board announced in May 1969 that Cedar Grove School would not operate in 1969-70. The school closed at the end of the 1968-69 year despite the community's appeals, and its pupils moved to schools in Efland and Hillsborough.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents

Fiber Industries withdrew its request to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a plant after opposition from UNC, Duke and Mayor Howard Lee. County commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed 'unintelligent intellectuals' and a town political 'machine', and said Lee, the town's Black mayor, was not serving Black residents by opposing the plant.

People: Howard N. Lee

Striking SAGA cafeteria workers vote 94 to 26 to join AFSCME

In the strike's third week the full-time SAGA food service workers marched from a noon rally at Wilson Library to the Student Union and voted 94 to 26 for representation by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. SAGA's regional director said mediation with the union would begin that weekend.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: Elizabeth Brooks

Two union officials and a striking worker are arrested at Lenoir Hall; Chancellor Sitterson pledges to subsidize workers SAGA does not rehire

On the strike's 24th day two union officials and a striking worker were arrested at Lenoir Dining Hall in the morning. Later that day Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson said the University would subsidize any workers SAGA did not rehire, after efforts to revive negotiations had stalled on the rehiring question.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Lenoir Hall

Police charge pickets at Lenoir Hall; nine are arrested and four hurt

About 25 police charged a group of pickets and sympathizers at the north end of Lenoir Hall when they did not disperse. Nine people were arrested, including AFSCME official Gene Gore and graduate student John Wheeler, and four were treated at Memorial Hospital. The next day Mayor Howard Lee announced that town police were being withdrawn from the strike scene.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: Howard N. Lee

Subject: Lenoir Hall

The 31-day SAGA strike is settled

Union and management reached a settlement on Monday morning and the workers approved the contract unanimously, returning to work the next day. The contract ran to June 30, 1970 and provided job classification, seniority, a minimum four-hour day, ten paid holidays, ten sick days, an end to split shifts and a no-strike clause; the University promised to find jobs for the more than 50 workers SAGA planned to phase out by February 1, 1970.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Eight men charged during the cafeteria strike appear in Orange County District Court

Howard Fuller of Malcolm X Liberation University, two of its students, AFSCME official Gene Gore and four others charged with disorderly conduct, riot, failure to disperse or interfering with officers during the strike appeared before Judge D. M. McLellan, who continued the cases to January 7, 1970 at the defendants' request.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Cogswell/Hausler design Ridgefield Townhouses, subsidized housing off South Estes Drive

The firm's 1970 Ridgefield Townhouses, on a secluded tract at the end of South Estes Drive, are two-story brick and frame apartments built on a small budget but made to look like middle-class housing, set in courtyards around a community building and playground. The 44-unit neighborhood joined the town's public housing after Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street (1967) and North Columbia Street (1968).

Cogswell/Hausler design a new sanctuary for the Community Church on Purefoy Road

In 1970 the firm added a two-story International Style sanctuary with stained siding and large south windows to the Community Church at 106 Purefoy Road, tied to the congregation's plain brick building of 1957 by George Matsumoto through a glass link. The integrated, nondenominational church had been founded in 1953 by the Rev. Charlie Jones and members who left Chapel Hill Presbyterian with him.

Subject: Community Church of Chapel Hill

Fred Battle directs the Hargraves Center

Fred Battle, a Lincoln High graduate of 1962, directed Chapel Hill's Hargraves Center, the former Negro Community Center on Roberson Street, from 1970 to 1987.

Part of The Hargraves Center and Chapel Hill’s Negro Community Center · 16 events

Subject: Hargraves Community Center

Robert Campbell moves to Rogers Road as the county landfill is built beside it

Campbell, who grew up in the Northside community of Chapel Hill, moved to Rogers Road in the early 1970s, as the Orange County landfill was going in next to the neighborhood. He later became president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Roberta Jackson joins UNC's School of Education as its first Black tenure-track faculty member

Roberta Jackson joined the UNC School of Education in 1970, a year after her husband Blyden Jackson joined the English department, as the school's first Black tenure-track faculty member. She earned tenure in 1974 and became the first tenured Black woman in the university's Division of Academic Affairs.

People: Blyden Jackson

Durham motorcycle gang member charged with murder in the Cates stabbing

Durham County officers arrested Ronnie Broadwell, 28, a member of the Durham Storm Troopers motorcycle gang, at Watts Hospital early on the morning of the stabbing, and he was charged with murder and held without bond in the Orange County Jail. By November 24 four white men were in jail and a second man, Bryan King of Durham, faced an assault charge.

Mayor Howard Lee leads a memorial march for James Cates

About 65 people joined a memorial march for James Cates led by Mayor Howard Lee and Alderman R. D. Smith, four days after the killing.

People: Howard N. Lee

Black residents question the police handling of the Cates killing

Black residents met at the Roberson Street Center to discuss how police handled the stabbing, young Black residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro asked the Justice Department to investigate the campus police, and a fund was started to hire extra counsel for the prosecution. Vice Chancellor Joseph Eagles and Assistant Chancellor Claiborne Jones began reviewing the campus police response.

Subject: Hargraves Community Center

Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing

At a preliminary hearing in Hillsborough, Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Nelson and William Johnson were bound over to the Orange County Grand Jury on murder charges and held without bond. Medical testimony indicated that immediate care could have prevented Cates's death.

Brick mason William "Smitty" Smith does his first stone repair, at the Carolina Inn

Trained on brick, William E. Smith did his first rock work in 1971 or 1972 on the Pittsboro Street side of the Carolina Inn after watching an older mason on Cameron Avenue for an hour. He went on to run his own masonry business for more than fifty years.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

The Flower Ladies move off the main sidewalk to NCNB Plaza

In 1971 the Flower Ladies moved their stands from the Franklin Street sidewalk into the NCNB Plaza passage and the alley next to the Intimate Bookshop.

Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens

Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson went on trial in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough before Judge Thomas Cooper on second-degree murder charges, reduced from first degree. District Solicitor Herbert Pierce prosecuted, and prosecution witnesses placed the three defendants around Cates with weapons.

All-white jury acquits three men in the killing of James Cates

A jury of 11 men and one woman, all white, found Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson not guilty after about an hour and a half of deliberation. The defense called no witnesses.

Howard Lee is re-elected mayor over Jack Maultsby

Lee won a second term against three challengers, leading restaurant co-owner Jack Maultsby 1,999 to 1,352 with two-thirds of the vote counted on election night; NCpedia gives his final share as 64 percent. The same ballot narrowly approved a Chapel Hill-Carrboro bus system in Chapel Hill, which Carrboro voters rejected.

People: Howard N. Lee

Black Student Movement holds a first-anniversary memorial for James Cates

The Black Student Movement and the Afro-American Society of Chapel Hill High School gathered at noon at the Confederate Monument and marched across campus to the Pit in memory of Cates. The service also protested the killing of William Murphy by a highway patrolman in Ayden.

Part of Black student activism at UNC · 18 events

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

Charles E. Daye joins the UNC School of Law as its first Black tenure-track professor

Charles E. Daye, a Durham native, came to the UNC law faculty in 1972 from Covington & Burling as the school's first African American tenure-track professor. He taught torts, housing and community development and administrative advocacy, and advised the Black Law Students Association from 1972 until 2014.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Hortense McClinton begins teaching a course on institutional racism

In 1972 McClinton launched a course on institutional racism in the UNC School of Social Work.

Marinda Dunnigan McPherson is recorded singing songs she learned from her family

McKellar Israel recorded McPherson in the fall of 1972 and the fall of 1973, singing children's games, play party songs and spirituals she learned from family members, among them songs she first recalled hearing her grandmother Marinda Hart sing about 1920. Israel also interviewed her and her husband David McPherson about community events and history.

Richard E. Whitted becomes Orange County's first Black county commissioner

Richard E. Whitted, born in Hillsborough, became the first Black member of the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1972.

N. Ferebee Taylor serves as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill

Nelson Ferebee Taylor was the chief administrative officer of the Chapel Hill campus for eight years. His office's records deal with desegregation, the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development.

Chapel Hill aldermen voted to buy the Eubanks Road site for the county landfill

Three months after the Chestnut Ridge site was abandoned, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to buy a 200-acre tract on Eubanks Road for $235,000. An unlined landfill was then built on about 80 acres of it, next to the Black Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood.

New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill

Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed a lawsuit in late September 1972. The suit was denied in early October.

Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood

RENA's chronology records that Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Mayor Robert Wells Jr. and county commission chairman H.D. Bennett signed the full landfill agreement. Residents remember Lee promising that their road would be paved and that the filled site would become a recreation center for them.

People: Howard N. Lee

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Black Student Movement march remembers James Cates

A Black Student Movement march in memory of James Cates was photographed by Les Todd, whose print is now held in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at Wilson Library.

Part of Black student activism at UNC · 18 events

The Black Student Movement opens Upendo Lounge in Chase Hall

Upendo, Swahili for love, opened as a Black student lounge in Chase Hall under the Black Student Movement, with a dedication and a party. It replaced an old mini-union and was open to the whole campus.

Howard Lee wins a third term as mayor by a landslide

In Chapel Hill's first November municipal election Lee carried every reporting precinct, taking 5,001 votes to 1,109 for graduate student Douglas Holmes, whom he had also beaten in 1971. NCpedia puts his share at 89 percent.

People: Howard N. Lee

Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall

Black students filled the pit of Memorial Hall and kept Ku Klux Klan representative David Duke, invited by the Union Forum, from giving his speech. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor called the disruption a transgression of one of the university's highest traditions.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Hank Anderson starts a Saturday breakfast meeting of Black and social justice leaders

Anderson began hosting a Saturday morning breakfast at Dip's Restaurant where African American and social justice leaders discussed problems and political strategy. The group later made endorsements in Chapel Hill and Carrboro elections and carried his name.

People: Bill Thorpe

Subject: Mama Dip’s Kitchen

Richard E. Whitted becomes the first Black chair of the Orange County commissioners

Four years after joining the board, Richard E. Whitted became the first Black chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners.

Richard Knight Jr. becomes Carrboro's first Black town manager

Carrboro hired Richard Knight Jr. as its first Black town manager, and he served from 1976 to 1980. He left to become deputy city manager of Gainesville, Florida, and later became the first Black city manager of Dallas.

Hillsborough annexes Hillsborough Heights

The African American neighborhood of Hillsborough Heights, north of West Hillsborough, was annexed in 1977, one year after West Hillsborough.

St. Joseph CME sold Henry W. Baldwin's Broad Street land to Carrboro for a park

Henry W. Baldwin, a Black landowner in the Lloyd/Broad neighborhood, left his estate to St. Joseph CME Church. During the pastorate of Dr. L. Kenneth Bennett the church sold a tract on Broad Street to the Town of Carrboro for a park, which was named Baldwin Park in his honor.

The Burwell School opens to visitors

The restored house has been open to visitors every year since 1977.

Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events

Subject: Burwell School

Pauli Murray celebrates her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross

Murray, newly ordained an Episcopal priest, celebrated her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill at the invitation of the rector Peter James Lee, who cited her family's connection to the parish. Her grandmother Cornelia Smith Fitzgerald had been baptized in the same chapel on December 20, 1854.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

Bill Thorpe leads the voting for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen

In his second run for office, Bill Thorpe led the field from the early returns and won one of four seats on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen, with Bev Kawalec, Marilyn Boulton and Gerry Cohen.

Pauli Murray declines an honorary degree from UNC

Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor wrote to Murray on February 10, 1978 offering her an honorary Doctor of Laws at the commencement of May 14, 1978. Murray declined, citing the University's dispute with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare over dismantling segregation and her refusal to share the platform with Governor Jim Hunt.

People: N. Ferebee Taylor

Yonni Chapman leads the North Carolina Memorial Hospital Employees Forum

Chapman, a hematology laboratory technician at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1985, served as president of the hospital's Employees Forum from 1978 to 1980 and helped unite coworkers against racial discrimination and unsafe working conditions.

Part of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the medical center, from 1952 · 24 events

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

A second story is added to the Hargraves Center's lower stone wing

In 1980 the one-story stone wing at the lower east side of the Hargraves Community Center on North Roberson Street was enlarged with a frame second story clad in horizontal siding.

Subject: Hargraves Community Center

Chapel Hill brings public housing under direct town control after a rent strike

After a rent strike and other problems in the 1980s, the town council took over public housing from a separate housing authority and ran it as a town department. Chapel Hill and Shelby are the only North Carolina municipalities with that structure.

Houses of African American families on the Eno flood plain off South Churton Street are removed

A row of small houses occupied by African Americans on the north bank of the Eno, east of South Churton Street and just south of the new Orange County Courthouse, is torn down or moved in the 1980s. One is moved within the district to 310 North Hassell Street.

Northside's Black population falls by about 40 percent

Between 1980 and 2010 Northside's Black population fell by roughly 40 percent as investors bought homes and converted or replaced them as student rentals; over the same period the share of university workers living 10 or more miles away rose above 60 percent.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

Robert Campbell helps start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church

Campbell and his wife helped start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church, where he was ordained in the 1980s. He has said his bishop's charge to the congregation to go beyond its own comfort turned him toward the landfill and the neighborhood's water.

UNC housekeepers present grievances to the Physical Plant

Thirty Physical Plant housekeeping assistants gave director Claude Swecker a list of grievances in Berryhill Hall, including the rehiring of Gene Alston, an organizer they said had been fired for organizing. On April 2 Swecker granted two concessions to about sixty housekeepers.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Hilliard Caldwell is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

Hilliard Caldwell, who had advised the students of the 1960 Colonial Drug sit-in in Chapel Hill, was first elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 1981. He served four terms, through 1997.

People: Hilliard Caldwell

Gloria Williams leads Joint Orange Chatham Community Action

As director of Joint Orange Chatham Community Action (JOCCA), the county anti-poverty agency, Gloria Williams gave poor families emergency food, spoke for tenants at the 1984 Orange County hearings on a minimum housing code and ran a summer youth work program.

Orange County begins discussing the first expansion of the Eubanks Road landfill

Ten years after the landfill opened, the county began discussing an expansion even though it had estimated the site would be full by 1985. Residents had been told the landfill would close after about ten years.

The Love Trust is established for the Chapel Hill Public Library

A $350,000 estate gift from Cornelia Spencer Love created the Love Trust in 1982. The library foundation has managed it since 1999 and it has given the library more than $2.3 million.

Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library

Yonni Chapman and Fred Battle found the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience

Chapman and Fred Battle co-founded the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, which worked on local school politics and on Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.

People: Fred Battle · Jesse Jackson

Shanklin's Press prints Irene Oliver Pender's History of Orange County Schools

Shanklin's Press of Hillsborough, the Black-owned print shop run by the family of Thomas Shanklin, published Irene Oliver Pender's A History of Orange County Schools: 1752-1983. The shop began in the family home in the 1960s and later moved to Cornelius Street.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro coalition organizes for the 20th anniversary March on Washington

Fred Battle chaired the Chapel Hill-Carrboro 20th Anniversary Coalition, which first met on May 29, 1983, and raised money to send buses from Chapel Hill to the August 27 march for jobs, peace and freedom in Washington. A UNC campus group worked as part of the local coalition.

Chapel Hill makes Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a town holiday

On Council member Bill Thorpe's initiative, Chapel Hill made the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. an official town holiday, the first town in North Carolina and one of the first municipalities in the nation to do so.

Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County bought the Greene Tract as a possible landfill site

The three governments purchased the roughly 164-acre Greene Tract, just north of Rogers Road inside Chapel Hill's extraterritorial jurisdiction, for a future landfill. The county's landfill site search committee did not choose it, and its future use was argued over through the 1990s.

Elizabeth Cotten is named a National Heritage Fellow

The National Endowment for the Arts named Cotten, a self-taught songster and songwriter born near Chapel Hill and author of Freight Train, a 1984 National Heritage Fellow. The NEA lists her in Syracuse, New York.

Habitat for Humanity of Orange County is incorporated

An ecumenical housing effort that began at Binkley Baptist Church in late 1982 became Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, incorporated in April 1984. Its first house was a donated building moved to what became the Chestnut Oaks neighborhood in Chapel Hill.

Fred Battle serves on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board

Fred Battle served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board of education from 1985 to 1989.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Rebecca Clark shows the Town Council the neglect of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Rebecca Clark of Chapel Hill's Black community gave the Town Council a slide show of sunken graves, broken walls, trash and overturned markers on April 22, 1985. The council named a task force, which called for a phased master plan.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Valerie Foushee works as an administrative officer for the Chapel Hill Police Department

Foushee spent 21 years as an administrative officer with the Chapel Hill Police Department, from 1987 to 2008.

Hilliard Caldwell tells a Chapel Hill forum that local schools still fail Black students

Speaking as home school coordinator for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools at a Human Rights Week forum, Caldwell said the community spent millions on education without adequate results and that few Black students reached the honor rolls. His cousin Ed Caldwell, a school board member, spoke as well.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Town of Hillsborough restores Margaret Lane Cemetery and dedicates a memorial plaque

After a restoration by the Town of Hillsborough, a bronze plaque on a large stone was dedicated at the center of the cemetery listing people known to have been buried there from before 1852 to 1931. It notes that the exact location of most of their graves is not known.

Subject: Margaret Lane Cemetery

Hillsborough annexes "Northern Fairview"

The June 1988 annexation took in nearly 150 acres, including much of the town's mid-century African American housing north of US 70. It brought town services but also higher taxes, which angered some residents.

Paul Hardin serves as chancellor of UNC at Chapel Hill

Hardin, who had led Wofford College, Southern Methodist University and Drew University, was chancellor at Chapel Hill from July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1995. His administration covered the university's bicentennial and its fundraising campaign, the argument over a freestanding black cultural center and the housekeepers' class action suit.

Reviewers keep St. Paul's A.M.E. Church off the Study List over its brick veneer

Staff told the State Professional Review Committee that St. Paul's was an important institution with long ties to its community, but that major alterations, among them a brick veneer, had cost it integrity. On July 13, 1989 the committee approved the day's other public requests and left the church off, and Robert Stipe asked staff to present standards for judging setting and integrity at the next meeting.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County begin a countywide search for a new landfill site

The three governing boards started a countywide search for the next sanitary landfill, carried out with a citizens' Landfill Search Committee and an engineering consultant. The Greene Tract, bought in 1984 for landfill use, was screened but not made a finalist.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools form a Blue Ribbon Task Force after Black parents press on the achievement gap

Black parents demanded more resources for disadvantaged students, and the district responded with a Blue Ribbon Task Force. The article judges that it changed little: the gap between Black and White test scores, tracked since the 1980s, narrowed only slightly.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

James Brittian leads the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP

Brittian was president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the NAACP from December 1990 until his death at his Carrboro home in November 1993. Fred Battle served as interim president until Gene Hatley took over in February 1994.

People: Fred Battle

Chuck Stone joins the UNC journalism faculty

Stone came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1991 and taught journalism there until he retired in 2005, holding the Walter Spearman professorship.

Orange County Affordable Housing Task Force creates the Orange Community Housing Corporation

The county's Affordable Housing Task Force created the Orange Community Housing Corporation, the organization that later became the Community Home Trust.

Walter Faribault Jr. opens Faribault's Pit Cooked Bar-B-Q in Hillsborough

Dr. Walter Faribault Jr., a Chapel Hill physician, had opened Faribault's Pit Cooked Bar-B-Q in Hillsborough using a recipe that had been in his family for more than a hundred years. The family had cooked pork barbecue on Faribault Lane for generations, and by 1993 the business was running as a catering service.

Daniel Pollitt retires from the UNC law faculty

Pollitt, by then a Kenan professor of law, retired from teaching in 1992 after more than 35 years at UNC. The Daily Tar Heel credited him with founding the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, opposing the Speaker Ban and helping to integrate the university.

Subject: UNC School of Law

UNC renames its admissions building Jackson Hall for Blyden and Roberta Jackson

The university renamed the former Navy Hall and Monogram Club building on Country Club Road, home of the admissions office since 1972, as Blyden and Roberta Jackson Hall. The Jacksons had retired from teaching in 1981.

People: Roberta Bowles Hodges Jackson

The Black Cultural Center holds a reception for alumnus Randall Kenan

UNC's Black Cultural Center held a reception for Kenan, a 1985 graduate, on the publication of his story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead; the Bull's Head Bookshop held an autograph party for the book the same day.

Subject: Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center)

Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards

A jury ruled that former UNC officials John DeVitto, Charles Mauer and Robert Sherman had discriminated by race and gender against Keith Edwards, an 18-year veteran of the UNC police, and ordered them to pay $116,000 in damages. Alan McSurely, her lawyer, won his first jury trial with the case.

Hank Anderson serves on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

Anderson was elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 1993 and re-elected in 1997, and the board chose him as mayor pro tem in 1994 and again in 1997. He served until his death in October 1998.

People: Mike Nelson · Jacquelyn Gist

NAACP task force begins a study of UNC's employee grievance procedure

A task force chaired by Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP president James Brittian held its first meeting to evaluate UNC's grievance and appeals procedure and employee relations counseling, aiming to change state law for workers across the UNC system. Former UNC personnel director Jack Gunnells was its operations director.

Chapel Hill Town Council funds the Midway Development Commission

The council unanimously approved a $6,000 grant to promote Black-owned businesses and housing in the Midway district between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. James Brittian, NAACP president and the commission's project development coordinator, said the money would bring in millions.

Jesse Jackson comes to Chapel Hill during the Black Cultural Center sit-in

Jesse Jackson came to Chapel Hill while students occupied South Building for a free-standing Black Cultural Center, met first with Chancellor Hardin and urged him to call a special trustees' meeting, which Hardin refused. Sixteen students and a Chapel Hill resident were arrested that day.

Subject: Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center) · South Building

John Dee Holeman and Joe and Odell Thompson open UNC's bicentennial folk heritage series

Bluesman and buckdancer John Dee Holeman and the Mebane string band duo Joe and Odell Thompson opened From the Outer Banks to the Blue Ridge: A Celebration of North Carolina's Folk Heritage at 2 p.m. on March 23, 1994, in Person Hall. The free series was part of UNC's Bicentennial Observance.

People: Joe Thompson

Subject: Person Hall

Charles and Lucile McDougle Middle School is dedicated

The middle school that opened in the fall of 1994 was officially named the Charles and Lucile McDougle Middle School and dedicated on November 6, 1994. The school's history says McDougle was a teacher, principal and central office administrator in a career of more than forty years, and that Lucile McDougle taught for more than forty years.

Subject: McDougle School

Randall Kenan returns to UNC as a visiting professor

Kenan, who decided on a writing career in UNC English classes, came back to Chapel Hill in 1995 as a visiting professor, and read that February in the Second Sunday series at Wilson Library.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Yonni Chapman founds the Freedom Legacy Project at UNC

While a UNC history graduate student, Chapman founded and directed the Freedom Legacy Project, a student group that documented the history of racial justice struggles at the university and publicly questioned the Silent Sam statue and the naming of Saunders Hall.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Black public works employees bring a discrimination charge against the Town of Chapel Hill

The Black Public Works Association, with the NAACP's help, filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination in promotions, pay and training in Chapel Hill's Public Works Department, where about 75 of some 110 employees were Black and none were managers. The EEOC assigned an investigator in the summer of 1996.

Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill

After the search narrowed to four sites judged permittable, the council voted 7 to 2 to recommend a reduced site OC-17, adjacent to the existing landfill, as the county's next sanitary landfill. INDY Week reports that the county commissioners and the Hillsborough board also voted for it that month, with Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson opposed.

People: Mike Nelson

Chapel Hill authorizes buying land beside the landfill to widen its buffer

The council unanimously authorized the town manager to buy the 4.05-acre Wilson property adjoining the Eubanks Road landfill at $6,000 an acre to expand a minimal buffer, subject to approval by Carrboro and Orange County.

Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site

The Orange County commissioners, Chapel Hill council, Carrboro aldermen and Hillsborough commissioners took comment on site 17 and three alternatives. Neighbours including David Caldwell, Kathy Schinley and Cornelius Kirschner spoke against it, B.B. Olive presented a 39-signature petition, and Frank Emory, representing Duke University, said the poorest residents lived nearest site 17.

People: David Caldwell Jr.

Frances Hargraves carries the Olympic torch down Franklin Street

The 1996 Olympic torch relay passed through Chapel Hill and Carrboro on its way to Atlanta. Frances Hargraves, 82, a retired special education teacher chosen as one of five Chapel Hill Community Heroes, took the flame from Chuck Stone at Columbia Street and carried it down Franklin Street.

People: Chuck Stone

McDougle Elementary School opens on the shared McDougle campus

McDougle Elementary School, named like the middle school for Charles and Lucille McDougle, opened on August 20, 1996 and shares its campus with McDougle Middle School.

Subject: McDougle School

Assembly of Governments agrees compensation items for neighbors of the landfill

Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro met as an Assembly of Governments in 1997 to take up benefits for people living near the Orange Regional Landfill and agreed a set of compensation items. In 2007 Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton wrote that not all of them had been carried out.

People: Mark Chilton

Orange County chooses to keep expanding the Eubanks Road landfill instead of opening a new site

With site OC-17 blocked, the county announced it would expand the existing landfill rather than close it. A new construction and demolition landfill was later built on the north side of Eubanks Road.

Valerie Foushee is elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board

Foushee was elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools board in 1997 and served until 2004, pressing for equity in the schools. It was the first of the local offices she held over 25 years in local and state government.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Chapel Hill approves digging on the Neville Tract to build new landfill cells

The council voted 9 to 0 for a special use permit letting the Orange Regional Landfill take earth from the Neville Tract to build containment cells and for daily cover, with access across landfill property to Eubanks Road. Work was to begin by 1999 and end by 2007.

Duke University easement to NASA stalls landfill candidate site OC-17

Chapel Hill's manager reported that Duke University had filed an easement in favor of NASA on candidate site OC-17, leaving the towns unable to test the land. The council voted 8 to 0 to have the town attorney write to the U.S. Attorney and called an Assembly of Governments for October 22, 1997.

Former UNC police officer C. E. Swain sues the university

Alan McSurely filed suit for C. E. Swain, a fired UNC police officer, alleging discrimination and violation of his constitutional rights; Swain said he came under pressure after ticketing the daughter of trustee Billy Armfield. The two asked the Black Student Movement for support the next day.

People: Michael Hooker

The University Laundry is renamed for housekeeping leaders Kennon Cheek and Rebecca Clark

On January 28, 1998 the trustees voted to rename the 1920s University Laundry for Kennon Cheek and Rebecca Clark, who led campus housekeepers in the 1930s and 1940s. The building was rededicated on September 17, 1998.

People: Rebecca Clark · Kennon Cheek

Carrboro renames its community park for Hank Anderson

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to rename Carrboro Community Park on N.C. 54 for Alderman Henry "Hank" Anderson III, on a motion by Alderman Jacquelyn Gist. The 55-acre park is one of the town's largest.

People: Jacquelyn Gist

Chapel Hill sets conditions for new solid waste sites before handing control to the county

The council unanimously directed its Landfill Owners Group members to secure a construction and demolition waste site by fall 1998, naming land on the north side of Eubanks Road next to the landfill, with eminent domain if needed, and the Greene Tract as options. It said pending solid waste issues had to be settled before any change in governance.

The Old Tavern and White Oak Grove School join the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the log Old Tavern at 419 Hillsborough Street, Chapel Hill, and the White Oak Grove School for Black children near Cedar Grove on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: White Oak Grove School · Old Tavern (419 Hillsborough Street)

Chapel Hill backs countywide funding to extend water lines to the Rogers Road neighborhood

By a 7 to 2 vote the council said water service lines for the community around the landfill should be paid for from a countywide revenue source so that all county residents share the cost, and opposed using the sales tax for those benefits.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts its school assignment and reassignment policy

Policy 4150 set the rules the district followed when it redrew attendance lines. As revised on April 2, 2009, its priorities for reassignment were walk zones, full use of buildings and equity, meaning balanced family income and achievement among schools and short travel times.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Community Land Trust in Orange County is incorporated

Local activists and governments incorporated the Community Land Trust in Orange County to keep homes permanently affordable through ground leases.

Joal Hall Broun joins the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

In early 1999 Joal Hall Broun, an assistant public defender, was appointed to fill out the term of the late Alderman Hank Anderson, and she won election to the board that fall. She served on the board until 2011.

People: Joal Hall Broun · Hank Anderson

The solid waste interlocal agreement set 60 acres of the Greene Tract aside as Headwaters Preserve

The 1999 Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement set the terms for disposing of the 104 acres that stayed in joint ownership and allowed 60 acres to be deeded to Orange County, which became the Headwaters Preserve. In 2002 the three governments adopted a resolution identifying acreage on the joint portion for preservation and affordable housing.

Reviewers turn down the Blyden and Roberta Jackson House as too recent

Staff recommended against the Chapel Hill house, built about 1960, because the case for it rested on people still living and it did not meet the National Register test for properties less than fifty years old. The committee followed staff on July 8, 1999.

People: Roberta Bowles Hodges Jackson

Hilliard Caldwell announces he will not seek another term as a Carrboro alderman

Caldwell said he would not run again and named controlled growth as the board's major achievement. The Daily Tar Heel counted 16 years of service under four Carrboro mayors.

People: Mike Nelson

Chapel Hill lets Orange County commissioners pick the next construction and demolition landfill site

With the existing construction and demolition landfill expected to fill by summer 2000, the council voted 9 to 0 to let the Board of Commissioners select an in-county replacement site on its behalf, citing time pressure and the expected transfer of solid waste authority to the county.

Stella Nickerson serves as interim principal of Frank Porter Graham Elementary

After eighteen or nineteen years as a classroom teacher at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School and ten years as an assistant principal, Stella Nickerson served as interim principal in the 2000-2001 school year.

The land trust sells its first home, in Carrboro

The first land trust home was sold in June 2000 in Carrboro. By then the organization had helped create nearly 100 affordable housing opportunities in Chapel Hill.

Jesse Jackson receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesse Jackson at a White House ceremony.

People: Bill Clinton

Land trust and housing corporation merge as the Orange Community Housing and Land Trust

The Community Land Trust in Orange County merged with the Orange Community Housing Corporation under the name Orange Community Housing and Land Trust. It reached 100 homes in 2005 and 230 by 2014.