Lenoir Dining Hall, the central dining facility on the North Campus, was a critical space of resistance during the 1969 Foodworkers’ Strikes, a movement to improve the working and living conditions of the mostly Black female workers who cooked, cleaned, and served food in the University’s dining halls.
Lenoir Dining Hall, the central dining facility on the North Campus, was a critical space of resistance during the 1969 Foodworkers’ Strikes, a movement to improve the working and living conditions of the mostly Black female workers who cooked, cleaned, and served food in the University’s dining halls.
Organization: Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, Black Student Movement, Campus Y, Southern Student Organizing Committee, UNC Non-Academic Employees Union
Space Use: Dining
Spatial Organizing Approach: Contestation
Date Created: 1939
Campus Space: Lenoir Hall and Manning Hall
Citation: Interview with Donelle Boose by Charlotte Fryar, 17 November 2017, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.