we are in chapel hill, north carolina at the marion cheek jackson center. the marion cheek jackson center is a place where we preserve the side and 10he north top communities. buying me are photographs of the civil rights movement that took thee here in chapel hill in 1960's. in the 1960's chapel hill was segregated. people could not go into stores, the schools were segregated. it will be theaters, all things were segregated. , again, a time when black people had to create their own community. in this particular community they built their home, they had a business district. had one school, they had their churches that everyone attended. there was a very close-knit community. what got the ball rolling here in chapel hill during the civil rights movement was, after the greensboro sit in, there were a group of guys that got together and they decided they needed to do something here in chapel hill to make change happen. that is where the chapel hill nine started. what made this group different from those that were going on in other places was that this was led b

. >> we are in chapel hill, north carolina at the marion cheek jackson center. e marion cheek jackson center is a place where we preserve the history of the north side and 10 top communities. these are photographs of the civil rights movement that took place here in chapel hill in the 1960's. in the 1960's chapel hill was segregated. people could not go into stores,

. >> we are in chapel hill, north carolina, at the marion cheek jackson center. it's a place where we preserve he history of the north side ineapples and top communities. people could not got to stores in the 1960's. the schools were segregated. the movie theaters, all things were segregated. 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 stores. they had a business district. they had one school. they had their churches that everyone attended. what got the ball rolling here in chapel hill during the civil rights movement was after the greensboro sit-in, there war group of guys that got together and they decided that they needed to do something here in chapel hill to make change happen. that's where the chapel hill nine started. what made this movement different from those that was going on in other places was that this was led by high school students. students got together, talked about it and then they begin plan for sit-ins and marchs and things of that nature. du