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The Marian Cheek Jackson Center
  • About
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    • Our Values
      • Our Mission, Vision and Values
      • Our Story
      • Our Neighborhoods
      • Our Model
    • Our Community Leaders
      • Northside Compass Group
      • Community Review Board
      • Community Mentor Team
      • Student Leadership Group
      • Our Namesake: Mrs. Marian Cheek Jackson
      • Our Co-Founder: Reverend Troy F. Harrison
      • Yonni Chapman Library
    • Our Team
      • MCJC Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Board of Advisors
      • Partners
  • Impact
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    • Advocacy & Housing Justice
      • Northside Neighborhood Initiative
      • Neighbor Retention Programs
      • Northside Census
      • Food Justice
    • Civil Rights & Local History Education
      • Learning Across Generations Workshops
      • Learning Across Generations – Online Curriculum
      • Sankofa Freedom School
    • History & Witness
      • From the Rock Wall
      • Soundwalk of Northside
      • Historic Gateways
    • Celebration & Connection
      • Northside Festival
      • Good Neighbor Initiative
      • Porch Parties
      • Singing Telegrams
    • Student Engagement
      • UNC Course Partnerships
      • Student Leadership Group
      • Northside Residential Fellowship
      • Linking Generations in Northside
  • Get Involved
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    • Become a Volunteer
    • Linking Generations in Northside
    • Live in Northside
    • Take the Soundwalk of Northside
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    • The Northside News
    • MCJC Reports
    • In the News
  • Contact Us
  • From the Rock Wall
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  • About
    • Our Values
      • Our Mission, Vision and Values
      • Our Story
      • Our Neighborhoods
      • Our Model
    • Our Community Leaders
      • Northside Compass Group
      • Community Review Board
      • Community Mentor Team
      • Student Leadership Group
      • Our Namesake: Mrs. Marian Cheek Jackson
      • Our Co-Founder: Reverend Troy F. Harrison
      • Yonni Chapman Library
    • Our Team
      • MCJC Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Board of Advisors
      • Partners
  • Impact
    • Advocacy & Housing Justice
      • Northside Neighborhood Initiative
      • Neighbor Retention Programs
      • Northside Census
      • Food Justice
    • Civil Rights & Local History Education
      • Learning Across Generations Workshops
      • Learning Across Generations – Online Curriculum
      • Sankofa Freedom School
    • History & Witness
      • From the Rock Wall
      • Soundwalk of Northside
      • Historic Gateways
    • Celebration & Connection
      • Northside Festival
      • Good Neighbor Initiative
      • Porch Parties
      • Singing Telegrams
    • Student Engagement
      • UNC Course Partnerships
      • Student Leadership Group
      • Northside Residential Fellowship
      • Linking Generations in Northside
  • Get Involved
    • Join Our Mailing List
    • Become a Volunteer
    • Linking Generations in Northside
    • Live in Northside
    • Take the Soundwalk of Northside
    • Join Our Team
  • News
    • MCJC News
    • The Northside News
    • MCJC Reports
    • In the News
  • Contact Us
  • From the Rock Wall
  • Donate
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    Join the Movement for Equitable Property Valuations!

    Add your signature to the community advocacy letter to the Orange County Board of Commissioners, and learn about Orange County's inequitable property revaluations and how that will impact historically Black and lower-income neighborhoods.

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    Bending the Market Toward Justice

    The Jackson Center is a lead partner in the Northside Neighborhood Initiative, a historic, broad-based community-first effort that is retaining long-term neighbors, creating affordable and quality housing options, and preserving the future of the most diverse communities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

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    From the Rock Wall

    Come listen and witness! From the Rock Wall is an interactive oral history site for all who have lived, worked, worshipped, played, and served in–and everyone who wants to join in preserving the future of–historically Black neighborhoods in southern Orange County, NC.

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    Our Mission

    We honor, renew, and build community in the historic Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC

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    Northside: A Rare and Abundant Community

    Uncovering the history behind the historic Northside community

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    Disrupting Conventional History

    Learning Across Generations invites students of all ages to learn the history beneath their feet, through the struggle and courage of Northside neighbors

What We Do

Advocacy & Housing Justice

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Civil Rights & Local History

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Celebration & Connection

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Take the Soundwalk
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Support Our Work

Contact Us!

919-960-1670

512 W. Rosemary St. Chapel Hill 27516

contact@jacksoncenter.info

Without the past, you have no future.

Ms. Marian Cheek Jackson

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