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The Marian Cheek Jackson Center

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center

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      • Our Co-Founder: In Memory of Reverend Troy F. Harrison
  • Our Programs
    • Organizing & Advocacy
      • Community-First Organizing Model
      • The Land Bank
      • The Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI)
        • NNI Celebration
      • Housing Retention Resources
        • Promise of Home Repairs
        • Property Tax Support
        • Keeping Your House a Home Workshops
        • Wills Clinics & Legal Advocacy
      • Heavenly Groceries Food Ministry
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        • For Interested Sellers
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    • Youth & Education
      • Learning Across Generations Program
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        • High School Student Audiodocs
        • Elementary Student Projects
        • LAG Workshop: ABC (Alternative Black Curriculum) at Chapel Hill High
      • Our Community Mentor Team
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        • The Northside Festival
        • Good Neighbor Initiative
        • Jackson Center Holiday Party
        • Singing Telegrams
      • The Porch Revival Tour
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    • What is Northside?
    • Oral History Trust
    • Soundwalk of Northside
    • The New Gateway: A Historic Welcome to Northside
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    • Northside Student Leadership Group
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  • About
    • Our Vision & Mission
      • MCJC Code of Conduct
      • MCJC Operating Principles
    • Our Namesake
    • Our Team
      • Our Staff
      • Our Board of Directors
      • Our Board of Advisors
      • Our Partners
      • Our Co-Founder: In Memory of Reverend Troy F. Harrison
  • Our Programs
    • Organizing & Advocacy
      • Community-First Organizing Model
      • The Land Bank
      • The Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI)
        • NNI Celebration
      • Housing Retention Resources
        • Promise of Home Repairs
        • Property Tax Support
        • Keeping Your House a Home Workshops
        • Wills Clinics & Legal Advocacy
      • Heavenly Groceries Food Ministry
      • Live in Northside
        • For Interested Buyers & Renters
        • For Interested Sellers
        • For Students
    • Youth & Education
      • Learning Across Generations Program
      • Our Workshops
        • High School Student Audiodocs
        • Elementary Student Projects
        • LAG Workshop: ABC (Alternative Black Curriculum) at Chapel Hill High
      • Our Community Mentor Team
    • Celebration & Connection
      • Annual Events
        • The Northside Festival
        • Good Neighbor Initiative
        • Jackson Center Holiday Party
        • Singing Telegrams
      • The Porch Revival Tour
  • Northside Stories
    • What is Northside?
    • Oral History Trust
    • Soundwalk of Northside
    • The New Gateway: A Historic Welcome to Northside
  • Get Involved
    • What is “active learning”?
    • Student Service Partnerships
    • Northside Student Leadership Group
    • Jobs & Opportunities
    • Donate Now
  • News
    • Freedom’s Journal: The MCJC Blog
    • The Northside News
    • Northside in the News
    • Research & Reports
  • Contact
    • Join Our Mailing List
    • Requests for Consultancy
  • Donate

A Celebration of Local History & Storytelling

Saturday, October 22, 2016

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512 W. Rosemary St. Chapel Hill NC 27516

(919) 960-1670

contact@jacksoncenter.info

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A Glimpse at Our Work

The Jackson Center is a hub of creative action dedicated to preserving the future of historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill, NC. Located in the heart of the Northside community, Center staff work in collaboration with Northside neighbors and friends to respect and to serve histories that, even as they are told, make new history out of Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights struggle, and desegregation. Today Northside and Pine Knolls are among the most racially, ethnically, and economically diverse neighborhoods in the region.

Contact Us

(919) 960-1670

contact@jacksoncenter.info

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The Value of Oral History

Oral history is at the center of the Jackson Center’s organizing model. It teaches us values, visions, struggles, and victories of every day history-makers, and it has continued to ground our work in listening and to inspire all of us to build a more just community together.

Our primary aim is to listen well: to hear and to carry forward histories shaped by abiding values and visions for vibrant community. We want to make sure that the histories of everyday, courageous and faithful leadership that we are privileged to hear—and to hold in the Jackson Center Oral History Trust—make a difference in our communities now and for generations to come.

As we continue to build our Oral History Trust, an archive containing over 200 oral histories and additional recordings, we invite you to read through some of the excerpts we have pulled to the right. Become inspired and ignited.

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