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The Marian Cheek Jackson Center

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center

  • About
    • Our Vision & Mission
    • Our Story
    • Our Namesake
    • Our Team
      • Our Staff
      • Our Co-Founder | In Memory of Reverend Troy F Harrison
      • Our Board of Directors
      • Our Board of Advisors
      • Our Partners
  • Our Work
    • Organizing & Advocacy
      • Our Model
      • The Northside Initiative
      • Program Resources
        • Promise of Home Repairs
        • Property Tax Support
        • Keeping Your House a Home Workshops
        • Wills Clinics & Legal Advocacy
        • Heavenly Groceries
      • Research & Reports
      • Live in Northside
        • For Interested Buyers & Renters
        • For Interested Sellers
        • For Students
    • Youth & Education
      • Learning Across Generations (K-12 Curriculum)
        • Student Projects
        • Schedule a Workshop
      • Fusion Youth Radio
        • Student Audiodocs
        • Get Involved
      • Our Community Mentor Team
    • Celebration & Connection
      • Installations & Exhibits
      • Northside Celebrations and Festivals
        • The Northside Festival
        • NNI Celebration
        • Good Neighbor Initiative
        • Jackson Center Holiday Party
        • Pop Up Neighborhood Events
      • The Northside News
      • The Northside Business Network
  • Northside Stories
    • What is Northside?
    • Soundwalk of Northside
    • The MCJC Oral History Archive
    • UNC Southern Oral History Program Archive
  • Get Involved
    • Become an Active Part of our Community
    • Calendar
    • Donate Now
  • Media
    • Blog
    • News Coverage
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • About
    • Our Vision & Mission
    • Our Story
    • Our Namesake
    • Our Team
      • Our Staff
      • Our Co-Founder | In Memory of Reverend Troy F Harrison
      • Our Board of Directors
      • Our Board of Advisors
      • Our Partners
  • Our Work
    • Organizing & Advocacy
      • Our Model
      • The Northside Initiative
      • Program Resources
        • Promise of Home Repairs
        • Property Tax Support
        • Keeping Your House a Home Workshops
        • Wills Clinics & Legal Advocacy
        • Heavenly Groceries
      • Research & Reports
      • Live in Northside
        • For Interested Buyers & Renters
        • For Interested Sellers
        • For Students
    • Youth & Education
      • Learning Across Generations (K-12 Curriculum)
        • Student Projects
        • Schedule a Workshop
      • Fusion Youth Radio
        • Student Audiodocs
        • Get Involved
      • Our Community Mentor Team
    • Celebration & Connection
      • Installations & Exhibits
      • Northside Celebrations and Festivals
        • The Northside Festival
        • NNI Celebration
        • Good Neighbor Initiative
        • Jackson Center Holiday Party
        • Pop Up Neighborhood Events
      • The Northside News
      • The Northside Business Network
  • Northside Stories
    • What is Northside?
    • Soundwalk of Northside
    • The MCJC Oral History Archive
    • UNC Southern Oral History Program Archive
  • Get Involved
    • Become an Active Part of our Community
    • Calendar
    • Donate Now
  • Media
    • Blog
    • News Coverage
  • Contact
  • Donate

Our Partners

We are a hub of partnerships, working in close collaboration with:

 

St. Joseph CME

EmPOWERment, INC

Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP

Orange County Justice United

Hargraves Community Center

Chapel Hill Association of Realtors Fix-A-Home

Fund for Southern Communities

 

 

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.com

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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 150 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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