Ashley Davis on foodworkers’ funding the strike
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria in Manning Hall to provideContinue Reading
Reclaiming the University of the People
Racial Justice Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria in Manning Hall to provideContinue Reading
On March 27, 1980 a group of housekeepers presented the Physical Plant Director, Claude Swecker, with a list of demandsContinue Reading
Manning Hall, the original site of the University’s law school, served during the first Foodworkers’ Strike in 1969 as aContinue Reading
Document Description: Kennon Cheek, Frank Hairston, Elliott Washington, and Melvin Rich established the Janitors’ Association in 1930 to promote cooperationContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes the creation of the alternative soul food cafeteria set up in Manning Hall, where foodworkersContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald argues that the Black cultural center movement was about creating a space that could benefit allContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes how the connections between the BCC movement and the housekeepers’ movement were connected to theContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis states the importance of UNC-Chapel Hill in movement-making across North Carolina because of its status asContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes how white students reacted to the demonstrations of Black Power in the Foodworkers’ Strikes, explainingContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how CHAT tied together movements for justice, working for racial justice, economic justice, and historicalContinue Reading