Lenoir Hall and Manning Hall

Cary Boshamer to Chancellor Sitterson Telegram

Document Description: Cary Boshamer, a significant donor to the University, wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson stating his support of Sitterson’s stance against the twenty-three demands made by the Black Student Movement and professors “encouraging the left-wings.” Sitterson received over one hundred letters from supporters across the state for his refusal to provide for the demands of the BSM.

Date: 2/20/1969

Document Type: Correspondence

Creator: Cary Boshamer

Document Collection: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Joseph Carlyle Sitterson Records, 1966-1972

Campus Space: Lenoir Hall and Manning Hall

Citation: Telegram from Cary Boshamer to Chancellor Sitterson in the Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Joseph Carlyle Sitterson Records #40022, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.