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‘Sharing the
History of a Local
Black Community’
For 37 years, the Rogers Road community in Chapel Hill has
been at the center of a public debate about the impact of the Orange County
Landfill, which borders the neighborhood. An exhibit that opened June 12 tells
a deeper story and reveals more than two centuries of the community’s history.
The exhibit, “We’re all Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the
Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill,” will be open through Aug. 31 in the
North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library. In a free public program
at 5:45 p.m. on June 25 in the library, residents will discuss their history.
Panelists for the program, “Documenting Neighborhood History in the Rogers Road
Community of Chapel Hill,” will include the Rev. Robert Campbell, other members
of the community and researcher Emily Eidenier. The program will follow a
reception and viewing of the exhibit at
5 p.m. www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2009/rogers_road.html
Above: Irving and Frances Nunn with their children in 1927,
courtesy the North Carolina Collection |
