CSPAN3 Marion Cheek Jackson Center July 12, 2024
So this was a time when, again, black people had to create their own community. So in this particular community, they built their homes, they had a business district. They had one school. They had their churches that everyone attended. There was a very closeknit community. What got the ball rolling here in chapel hill during the Civil Rights Movement was, after the greensboro sitin, there were a group of guys that got together and they decided that they needed to do something here in chapel hill to make change happen. That is where the chapel hill nine started. What made this movement differen...