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