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
Category: South Campus
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
Report on Myths About Black Students from Hinton-James
Document Description: Though Hinton James Residence Hall had been open less than a decade, by the early 1970s, “James Dorm”Continue Reading
Letter from Pauli Murray to Frank Porter Graham
Document Description: In this letter, the future human rights activist Pauli Murray, a descendant of both slaves and enslavers andContinue Reading
Karen Parker on integration as a responsibility to future Black students
Excerpt Description: Karen Parker, the first Black woman to graduate from the University, explains how she viewed her enrollment atContinue Reading
Walter Jackson on a love-hate relationship with UNC-Chapel Hill
Excerpt Description: Walter Jackson expresses the feeling that many of the first Black students at UNC-Chapel Hill still hold aContinue Reading
Black Student Movement Demands, 1997
Document Description: In November 1997, the Black Student Movement issued a new list of twenty-two demands to the University administration,Continue Reading
Daily Tar Heel Report on Campus Housing Segregation
Document Description: The Daily Tar Heel reported in 1991 on the housing pattern in which the majority of Black studentsContinue Reading
Black Ink Report on the Black/South Campus – White/North Campus Residency Cycle
Document Description: In 1990, Black Ink reported on the housing pattern in which a majority of Black students lived on the SouthContinue Reading