Lenoir Hall and Manning Hall

Ashley Davis on foodworkers’ funding the strike

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria ...

Ashley Davis on the importance of UNC-Chapel Hill for social movements across North Carolina

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis states the importance of UNC-Chapel Hill in movement-making across North Carolina ...

Ashley Davis on the reaction of white students to integration

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes how white students reacted to the demonstrations of Black Power ...

Ashley Davis on the soul food cafeteria in Manning Hall

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes the creation of the alternative soul food cafeteria set up ...

Black Monday Rally

Document Description: During the second Foodworkers' Strike in December 1969, Black students once again held ...

Black Student Movement Demands, 1968

Document Description: On December 11, 1968, the Black Student Movement presented Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson with ...

Black Student Movement Statement of Purpose

Document Description: Preston Dobbins created the Black Student Movement (BSM) on November 7, 1967 by ...

Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Notes on Beliefs and Goals

Document Description: These notes, taken by Yonni Chapman, outline the statement of beliefs and goals ...

Cary Boshamer to Chancellor Sitterson Telegram

Document Description: Cary Boshamer, a significant donor to the University, wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle ...

Chancellor Sitterson Response to Black Student Movement Demands

Document Description: Chancellor Sitterson responded to the Black Student Movement's 1968 demands with this nineteen-page ...

Elizabeth Brooks Accepting the Mary Smith-Elizabeth Brook Human Rights Award

Document Description: Photograph depicts Elizabeth Brooks, one of the leaders of the 1969 Foodworkers' Strike, ...

Elizabeth Brooks on the first night of the Foodworkers’ Strike

Excerpt Description: Elizabeth Brooks describes the first night of the first Foodworkers Strike in February 1969 ...

Floyd McKissick on experiences of first Black students at UNC-Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: Floyd McKissick describes the treatment from white students he experienced as one of ...

Foodworkers’ Strike Photographic Negatives of State Patrolmen

Document Description: Photographic negatives taken by a member of the Black Student Movement show the ...

John Sellars on the relationship between Black students and Black community of Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: John Sellars explains that the main difference between the BSM and the UNC ...

Julius Chambers to President Friday and Chancellor Sitterson

Document Description: Julius Chambers (UNC School of Law '62) and law partner Adam Stein were ...

Political Cartoon Regarding the SAGA Corporation

Document Description: Following the conclusion of the first Foodworkers' Strike in May 1969, the University, ...

Preston Dobbins on the creation of the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: Preston Dobbins details the shuttering of the UNC-NAACP group and the creation of ...

Speeches At the Conclusion of Foodworkers’ Strike

Document Description: Howard Fuller, Preston Dobbins, and Elizabeth Brooks address the crowd of supporters of ...

Video of Foodworkers’ Strike and State Patrolmen Outside Lenoir Hall

Document Description: On March 6, 1969, ostensibly to keep order on the campus and to ...