Document Description: The housekeepers’ lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which abolished the “badges and indices of slavery,” which HKA argued were still in effect at the University, evidenced by housekeepers’ low pay, plantation-like supervisory systems, and the inaccessibility of career advancement. This memorandum of law cites historians and scholars to place the lawsuit in an historical context.
Historical Memorandum_Aug96
Organization: UNC Housekeepers Association
Date: 3/28/1996
Document Type: Legal Document
Creator: Al McSurely, Mark Dorosin
Document Collection: Alan McSurely Papers, 1928-2003
Campus Space: Cheek-Clark Building
Citation: Historical Memorandum, 1996 in the Alan McSurely Papers, #4928, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Document Description: The housekeepers’ lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which abolished the “badges and indices of slavery,” which HKA argued were still in effect at the University, evidenced by housekeepers’ low pay, plantation-like supervisory systems, and the inaccessibility of career advancement. This memorandum of law cites historians and scholars to place the lawsuit in an historical context.
Historical Memorandum_Aug96Organization: UNC Housekeepers Association
Date: 3/28/1996
Document Type: Legal Document
Creator: Al McSurely, Mark Dorosin
Document Collection: Alan McSurely Papers, 1928-2003
Campus Space: Cheek-Clark Building
Citation: Historical Memorandum, 1996 in the Alan McSurely Papers, #4928, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.