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- **Posted:** 2025-09-11T20:01:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Hilliard Caldwell, a longtime civil rights activist in the greater Chapel Hill community and former Carrboro elected official, died recently at 88 years old. A member of Caldwell’s family alerted Chapelboro to his passing on Monday.

Known for his advocacy and work during Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools’ integration in the 1960s and for organizing civil disobedience protests against racial discrimination, Caldwell often found himself as a mediator to generations of Black Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents — working to inform older and younger people on the reasoning behind different approaches to race relations. He played a hand in advising the nine Lincoln High School students who held a sit-in at Colonial Drug on Franklin Street in 1960, later being nicknamed the Chapel Hill Nine and credited for kickstarting protest efforts in support of the Civil Rights Movement.

Caldwell served four terms on the Carrboro Board of Alderman, from 1981 to 1997. He also worked as a UNC employee and served in his free time as president of the NC Association of School Social Services Personnel, a member of the former Chapel-Hill Carrboro Committee for Racial Equality, a member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA’s Board of Directors and a board member for the Inter-Faith Council.

The Carrboro government shared a release about Caldwell’s death on Tuesday, calling him a “pivotal figure” in local efforts during the Civil Rights Movement and recognizing his work as a public servant.

“The Town of Carrboro will remember Hilliard Caldwell for his service to the community, for his courage and dedication, and for laying the foundation for an inclusive community,” Mayor Barbara Foushee said in the release.

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