First Meeting of the Real Silent Sam Coalition
Document Description: In August 2011, a new organization comprised of both students and Chapel Hill and Carrboro permanent residents formed,Continue Reading
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Historical Memorandum of Law for the Housekeepers Settlement
Document Description: The housekeepers’ lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which abolished the “badges and indicesContinue Reading
Schedule for Upendo Lounge Use
Document Description: With the opening of Upendo Lounge in 1973 after several years of the BSM’s advocating for a meetingContinue Reading
Black Monday Rally
Document Description: During the second Foodworkers’ Strike in December 1969, Black students once again held protests in support of theContinue Reading
Political Cartoon Regarding the SAGA Corporation
Document Description: Following the conclusion of the first Foodworkers’ Strike in May 1969, the University, in an effort to distanceContinue Reading
Letter from Pauli Murray to Chancellor Nelson Ferebee Taylor
Document Description: The University System struggled through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s to meet federal mandates from the U.S.Continue Reading
President of the Black Student Movement on Housing Segregation
Document Description: The 1984-1985 President of the Black Student Movement, Sherrod Banks, writes in The Daily Tar Heel to explainContinue Reading
Deposition on Black Student Housing on South Campus
Document Description: Through the 1970s and 1980s, housing administrators ignored student claims made in depositions to the U.S. Department ofContinue Reading
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. Interviewee Name: Elizabeth BrooksContinue Reading
Chris Baumann on the continuing problems facing low-wage workers
Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains the struggle housekeepers faced to get the University to meet the conditions of the settlementContinue Reading