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- A conversation with John Hatch and Ted Parrish, May 30, 2019
John Hatch arranged for Ted and Jackie Parrish to record a conversation in his living room in May 2019 to talk about Ted's work with housing and tenants rights in Boston. (Video recording.)
- Article about the South End Tenants Organization is on page 8
Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive, The Wellesley News (02-28-1969) - see page 8
- Chapel Hill Historical Society biography
Ted and JacquelineParrish have six children, most of whom were educated in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Schools. Ted noted that, in the local educational system at the time, the highest ranking for a black student had been 128thfrom the top of the class. This had inspired him to run for a position on the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School Board, where he served for sixteen (16) years.
- NCCU Department of Health Education history
- Northside and Pine Knolls Neighborhoods
The Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods are historically black neighborhoods that have a deep-rooted history in Chapel Hill. The identity of Chapel Hill and these historic neighborhoods are deeply intertwined, though at times they can be at odds. Due to the ongoing growth of Chapel Hill, one of the biggest challenges facing the long-standing residents of the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods is the rising cost of housing.
- Pine Knolls Community Housing Program
The Northside News, Vol. VII, Issue 10, June 2018, p2
Pine Knolls residents and community leaders Virginia Barbee
and Ted Parrish started the Pine Knolls Community Housing
Program in the early 90's in order to, as Ms. Barbee says, "save
our houses."
- Retired NCCU professor Ted Parrish sees promise in Chapel Hill’s Pine Knolls community
Mark Schultz, News & Observer, July 31, 2016
Parrish, 82, a retired professor of public health at N.C. Central University, has been renovating the center since his board took the building back from the Boys & Girls Clubs a couple of months ago.
- Ted Parrish activities with the Town of Chapel Hill
- Tenants Development Corporation
Founded in 1968, TDC has been operating for over 40 years, developing affordable housing in Boston’s historic South End neighborhood. TDC was conceived and organized by low income renters, principally African-American tenants, who were distressed over the sub-standard and hazardous housing conditions to which they were subjected to live in many areas of the South End.
- The Jackson Center has built community for years in Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods
Rebecca Ayers, The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 2018
Officially founded as a nonprofit in 2012, the Marian Cheek Jackson Center has grown and dedicated its purpose to building community in Chapel Hill's historic Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods.