
Ashley Davis on foodworkers’ funding the strike
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Black Monday Rally
Document Description: During the second Foodworkers' Strike in December 1969, Black students once again held ...
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Black Student Movement Demands, 1968
Document Description: On December 11, 1968, the Black Student Movement presented Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson with ...
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Black Student Movement Statement of Purpose
Document Description: Preston Dobbins created the Black Student Movement (BSM) on November 7, 1967 by ...
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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 ...
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Cary Boshamer to Chancellor Sitterson Telegram
Document Description: Cary Boshamer, a significant donor to the University, wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Foodworkers’ Strike Photographic Negatives of State Patrolmen
Document Description: Photographic negatives taken by a member of the Black Student Movement show the ...
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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 ...
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Julius Chambers to President Friday and Chancellor Sitterson
Document Description: Julius Chambers (UNC School of Law '62) and law partner Adam Stein were ...
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Political Cartoon Regarding the SAGA Corporation
Document Description: Following the conclusion of the first Foodworkers' Strike in May 1969, the University, ...
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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 ...
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Speeches At the Conclusion of Foodworkers’ Strike
Document Description: Howard Fuller, Preston Dobbins, and Elizabeth Brooks address the crowd of supporters of ...
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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 ...
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