Chronology

White Cross voters turn down a merger with the Chapel Hill schools a second time

White Cross voters defeated a merger of their school into the Chapel Hill city district, 116 to 110, a year after Carrboro had joined it; a first vote had failed in May 1958. A third vote failed in the spring of 1960, and the county closed the school in 1961. The county board sold the White Cross property to Edmiston Realty Company for $14,900 in 1967.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · White Cross School

Brandis returns for the Vickers hearing, then leaves the Chapel Hill school board

Brandis withdrew his August 3 resignation so he could sit at the board's hearing on Stanley Vickers's transfer request on August 31. He resigned again after that meeting, and the board named a committee to find his successor.

People: Stanley Vickers

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Chapel Hill opens its Glen Lennox fire station

The town's second fire station, on South Hamilton Road in Glen Lennox, opened without ceremony when two pumper trucks moved in from the main station on Columbia Street. The aldermen had let contracts in February for the building, designed by Archie Davis of Durham and paid for from 1957 bonds.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Orange County commissioners give a cool reception to a Research Triangle planning request

At a special meeting, Orange County commissioners gave only a lukewarm reception to a request to help fund a land development survey for the Research Triangle area and took no action pending firm figures. The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that the county expected to gain mostly new residents and school costs from the park rather than industry, and commissioners discussed zoning the area northeast of Chapel Hill toward the Durham County line.

Architect Arthur Cogswell designs his own house on Marilyn Lane

Cogswell's 1960 house at 5 Marilyn Lane sits on two levels in a slope, planned on George Matsumoto's four-foot grid and sided in vertical pine, with a short bridge from the drive to the door and a living room under a row of small glass-ended gables. It won an award from the North Carolina chapter of the AIA.

People: Arthur Cogswell · George Matsumoto

Architect Wade Williams builds a Wright-influenced house for himself on Whitfield Road

Durham architect R. Wade Williams designed a flat-roofed Modernist house with exposed-aggregate block walls and dark-red board siding for himself and his wife, kitchen designer Mary Louise Gunter Williams, on an eighteen-acre wooded tract northeast of Chapel Hill. Her parents helped pay for it.

Census counts Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in

The 1960 census counted 42,970 people in Orange County, 12,573 in Chapel Hill and 1,997 in Carrboro. Chapel Hill township had 25,030, up from 18,222 in 1950.

Cornelia Spencer Love gives private funds toward a new library on East Franklin Street

Love donated private money during the 1960s to help build the town's new public library on East Franklin Street.

Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library

Don Stewart designs a Japanese-influenced house for Robert and Ruth Mace

Around 1960 Stewart's work turned toward Asian models, as in the one-level house he drew for physicist Robert Mace and his wife Ruth at 222 Hillcrest Circle, off East Franklin Street. Its wide roof overhang and the screen beside the entrance have a Japanese cast, and a tall porch shades the south side.

People: Don Stewart

Don Stewart designs the Bowers-Nelson House in Morgan Creek Hills

Built about 1960 at 903 Coker Drive, this small house on a sloping lot is Stewart's most direct borrowing from Japanese houses. Its post-and-beam frame is exposed outside and was first painted in bright colors, and paper shoji screens slide on tracks to divide the rooms.

People: Don Stewart

Edward and Elizabeth Waugh publish The South Builds

Architect Edward Waugh and his wife Elizabeth published The South Builds with the University of North Carolina Press in 1960, a survey of new Southern architecture that favored modern buildings suited to the region's climate.

Henry Roland Totten develops the first sections of Coker Hills

Coker College hired UNC botanist Henry Roland Totten, a colleague of the late W. C. Coker, to develop its Estes Drive land, and the first sections of Coker Hills went up along Elliott and Clayton roads in 1960 and 1961. The rest of the neighborhood was built out through 1972.

Manly Wade Wellman teaches creative writing at the university

Wellman taught creative writing classes in the Evening College of the University of North Carolina and was known for helping new writers.

North Carolina Memorial Hospital admits its 100,000th patient

UNC A to Z records that the hospital welcomed its 100,000th patient in 1960, eight years after it opened.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Political scientist Gordon Cleveland designs his own Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane

Ellington & Sparrow built the side-hall house for Gordon and Martha Cleveland on a sloping lot with a full basement.

The Chapel Hill Friends Meeting opens its meetinghouse

Mildred Ringwalt, who joined the Chapel Hill Friends in 1959, was influential in building the Quaker meetinghouse that opened in 1960 and later raised money to enlarge it. A Carolina Friends School tribute says she sold most of her Oriental art to finance the building and anonymously gave the money to finish it.

People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll

The Glendale subdivision is developed north of Battle Park

During the 1960s the Glendale subdivision was built on the hilly ground north of Battle Park, with houses by Cogswell/Hausler and other modernist firms.

Subject: Battle Park

UNC football coach Jim Hickey builds a two-story Colonial Revival house on Iris Lane

The weatherboarded house has a pedimented entrance porch and a garage wing topped by a small cupola. Hickey lived there until 1977.

UNC gives John Lindsay Morehead an honorary doctor of laws

The university honored Morehead, principal officer of the Morehead Foundation, as the architect of the Morehead scholarship plan.

William Van Sprinkle designs a long Contemporary Ranch on Buttons Road for Charles and Kay Bream

The six-bay house for the radiology professor mixes vertical wood and brick, with sliding windows and a carport set on the diagonal. Sprinkle, known for Colonial Revival work, here turned to a modern design.

People: William Van Sprinkle

Ted Danziger opens the Zoom-Zoom, a carryout restaurant on West Franklin Street

Ted Danziger opened Zigger's Zoom-Zoom, a carryout and home delivery restaurant managed by Hal Sieber, a block from his Rathskeller. Its menu ran from rotisserie chicken to lasagna in casseroles.

The Vickers family files its federal suit against the Chapel Hill City Board of Education

Suing through his parents, Stanley Vickers asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to declare his right to attend the public schools without racial discrimination. After the board turned down his June 1960 application to Chapel Hill Junior High, the complaint was amended to seek that school, and the case was tried on October 5, 1960.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Chapel Hill High School

Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe

The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Harold Foster · Hilliard Caldwell

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

The Chapel Hill sit-in movement forms an executive committee and retains counsel

At a Tuesday night meeting the Lincoln High demonstrators and their adult supporters organized, set up an executive committee to coordinate the lunch-counter protests and acquired legal counsel.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Harold Foster · Hilliard Caldwell

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

The Chapel Hill CORE Committee rejects a second truce and resumes picketing as 27 ministers back the protests

After a week-long pause the students' 12-member executive committee, led by Harold Foster, declined the Human Relations Committee's request for a second truce and resumed afternoon picketing at Colonial Drug and Long Meadow Dairy. Twenty-seven Chapel Hill ministers issued a statement commending the peaceful, non-violent picketing.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Harold Foster · Dudley Dewitt Carroll

Chapel Hill aldermen refuse Chief Blake's picketing-control ordinance

The Board of Aldermen unanimously declined to pass an ordinance against blocking sidewalks that Police Chief William W. Blake had requested as a safety measure, saying its passage would be misread as interference with the peaceful picketing at Colonial Drug.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

W. C. George and Lucius Cheshire are named Orange County managers of I. Beverly Lake's campaign

I. Beverly Lake named W. C. George of Chapel Hill and Lucius M. Cheshire of Hillsborough, both directors of the pro-segregation North Carolina Defenders of States Rights, co-managers of his campaign for governor in Orange County.

People: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake

Chapel Hill school board admits its first Black pupils to a white school, three first graders at Estes Hills Elementary

Acting under its new proximity policy, the board voted unanimously to grant three of twelve Black reassignment applications for the 1960-61 first grade at previously all-white Estes Hills Elementary School. Applications to transfer to the white junior high school, including Stanley Vickers's, were refused.

People: Stanley Vickers

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Chapel Hill aldermen pay the town's share of the Research Triangle planning commission budget

The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen appropriated $1,545, six percent of the $25,750 budget of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission for 1960-61. The commission also asked the Orange County commissioners for four percent, or $1,030.

Roland and Clara McClamroch deed the Nash house to their daughter Anna McClamroch McFall

English professor Roland McClamroch and his wife had bought the house from the Nashes and rented it to Robert and Alpha Wettach, who moved out around 1960. The house stayed in the McClamroch family until 1983.

Young and Wilkins open the Better Homes and Gardens Idea Home on Christopher Road

The 1960 Better Homes and Gardens Idea Home, built by David Curl for the Chapel Hill realtors Young and Wilkins, opened for public tours at 808 Christopher Road, across the bypass from Glen Lennox. It was the only Idea Home shown in North Carolina that year and stayed open through October 2.

The university's attorney finds the trustees never deeded the cemetery to the town

In a letter of November 11, 1960 to J. A. Branch of the university business office, university attorney J. A. Williams reported no sign that the trustees had ever conveyed title to the cemetery land to Chapel Hill.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication

A four-day dedication of the Institute of Government's headquarters, for which officials were invited by congressional district and the Kughler murals were unveiled, closed with Governor Hodges accepting the million-dollar building on behalf of the state. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. stayed for the whole program.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Aycock suspends a basketball player in the betting scandal and makes Dean Smith head coach

After the player Doug Moe accepted $75 from a gambler in 1961, Chancellor Aycock suspended him and said the integrity of the institution was involved. Aycock then raised assistant coach Dean Smith to head coach.

People: Dean Smith

Chapel Hill assigns first graders by residence zone and becomes the first North Carolina district with no all-white school

A school board elected on a desegregation platform took office on July 1, 1961 and adopted a single first-grade attendance map, assigning 24 Black children to Glenwood, 10 to Estes Hills and 8 to Carrboro Elementary after the zones were redrawn to reduce Carrboro's share. When school opened, every school in the district had at least one Black pupil for the first time in the state's history, and no incidents were reported.

Subject: Carrboro Elementary School · Glenwood Elementary School

Church and student groups picket Chapel Hill's Varsity Theatre

Local church groups and student organizations picketed the Varsity Theatre after Black patrons were refused entry. Later that year the management agreed to admit Black UNC students with ID, and the town's theaters were fully desegregated by early 1962.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

Frank McGuire leaves UNC and Dean Smith succeeds him

McGuire left Chapel Hill in 1961 to coach the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA. Dean Smith, who had joined his staff as an assistant in 1958, became head coach of the Tar Heels.

People: Dean Smith

Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961), the historian who built the Southern Historical Collection in the university library, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Leo Eliadis closes his bus station grill and opens Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street

After a Duke student sat in the Black section of the Chapel Hill bus station grill in June 1961 and was arrested at Leo Eliadis's request, Eliadis shut the grill. By early September he had opened Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street.

The Field-Robbins House goes up on Timberly Drive

Doris and James Field built a Modernist house of contrasting materials and varied roof levels on their Timbercrest land in 1961 but lost it after defaulting on the mortgage. Dermatologist Jack Robbins and nurse Catherine Robbins bought it in August 1962, finished the interior and lived there the rest of their lives.

The Presbyterians build a larger church where the burned one stood

Three years after the 1958 fire, a new and bigger Presbyterian church went up on the old site on East Franklin Street.

Subject: University Presbyterian Church

The first Black students enter the formerly white Chapel Hill junior-senior high school on Franklin Street

For 1961-62 the board granted two of three Black applications to the white junior high school and later reassigned a fourth child who had moved into the district, while the federal court ordered Stanley Vickers admitted to the eighth grade there. Sheila Florence, who described herself as one of the first four Black students and who graduated from Chapel Hill High School on Franklin Street in 1965, was one of them, and Eugene Hines was another Black student in the school.

People: Stanley Vickers · Sheila Florence

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

The former Navy Hall becomes the Faculty Club

Because the Monogram Club building was again underused, the university turned it over to a Faculty Club in 1961.

Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house

After Troy Andrews retired in 1961 and inherited the farm with his sister Nita, he and Robin moved back and renovated and enlarged the early nineteenth-century hewn log house built for the Lloyd family, living there while they planned their new house.

People: Roberta C. Andrews

Subject: Bolin Brook Farm (Troy and Roberta Andrews House)

UNC considers the Jordan Reservoir for its water and Okun argues for Cane Creek

While Okun was on sabbatical in 1961 the university began considering the Jordan Reservoir as a water source; on his return he persuaded the board that Cane Creek, which his students had studied in the 1950s, was the better site.

William Lanier Hunt gives 103 acres of the Morgan Creek gorge to UNC

Hunt gave UNC and the state about 103 acres of creek gorge and Catawba rhododendron bluffs along Morgan Creek, which became the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum, part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden lands.

Subject: North Carolina Botanical Garden

L. J. Phipps and Stanley Peele form a law partnership in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill attorney L. J. Phipps took Stanley Peele, associated with him since he was admitted to the bar in 1959, into partnership.

UNC moves the Mitchell family graves from the campus to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Four graves of Elisha Mitchell's infant sons and grandsons, in the old Mitchell garden near the center of campus, were exhumed under archaeologist Joffre Coe to make room for the expansion of the university's television and communications work. They were reburied in the Horace Williams plot in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery with the Rev. Vance Barron officiating.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat

McClamroch and three re-elected aldermen, Adelaide Walters, Paul Wager and Hubert Robinson, were sworn in at the Monday night meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Recorder's Court Judge William Stewart. The board named businessman Joe Page to the unexpired two year aldermen's term McClamroch left on becoming mayor, and elected Mrs. Walters mayor pro tem.

People: Paul W. Wager · Hubert Robinson · Adelaide Walters

Sandy McClamroch is elected mayor of Chapel Hill without opposition

McClamroch ran unopposed for mayor in the May 1961 town election. Before the vote he took questions from residents at a public meeting at the Negro Community Center sponsored by the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration and the Civic Club, and on a WUNC radio panel, saying he wanted to improve the town's public relations and would discuss merging Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Subject: Hargraves Community Center · WUNC radio and television

R. D. Smith is named to a new Chapel Hill Planning Board

After the whole Planning Board resigned in June 1961 in protest at the aldermen's handling of its recommendations, the aldermen named five members of a new board, among them R. D. Smith, the vocational agriculture teacher at Lincoln High School. The county commissioners named the other five.

Chapel Hill church women ask the county for a welfare office in Chapel Hill

A group from the Chapel Hill Council of United Church Women, including Mildred Ringwalt, asked the Orange County commissioners for a branch welfare office in the Chapel Hill area with a caseworker at least two days a week, and offered volunteers. The acting welfare superintendent replied that lay volunteers could not do casework.

Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race

Chief Judge Edwin M. Stanley of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina held that the Chapel Hill City Board of Education had refused Vickers reassignment to all-white Chapel Hill Junior High School on account of race and that he was entitled to be admitted there for the 1961-62 school year. The suit had been filed on February 2, 1960 and tried on October 5, 1960.

People: Stanley Vickers

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Chapel Hill High School

University National Bank of Chapel Hill becomes part of Central Carolina Bank

The University National Bank of Chapel Hill merged into the Durham Bank and Trust Company, which took the new name Central Carolina Bank and Trust Company. Both Chapel Hill offices reopened under the new name, with O. Gordon Perry as manager for Chapel Hill.

People: Oliver K. Cornwell

Ruth Faison Shaw holds a finger-painting show in Chapel Hill

The Chapel Hill Weekly ran a page of photographs of a finger-painting show by Shaw, showing her at work and a display in a garden.

Student Peace Union symbols are painted on UNC's military buildings and the armory gun

In one of the first antiwar acts on campus, someone painted the Student Peace Union insignia on several military buildings and on the antiaircraft gun in front of the Naval Armory.

Albert Coates gives Chancellor Aycock a 158-page account of the Institute's past and needs

Using staff tallies of thirty years of Institute publications, training and finances, Coates wrote Chancellor William B. Aycock a long report on how the Institute began and grew and what it would need. It also argued for waiving the retirement rule in his case, and it became the core of his later published history of the Institute.

People: William B. Aycock

Subject: Institute of Government

Arthur Cogswell opens his own architecture firm in Chapel Hill

Arthur Cogswell, a UNC graduate of 1952 who trained in architecture at State College and spent the late 1950s in Don Stewart's office, opened his own Chapel Hill practice in 1962, designing flat-roofed, cantilevered houses in the spare manner he learned from George Matsumoto.

People: Arthur Cogswell · George Matsumoto

Beta Theta Pi builds a social hall annex and remodels its house

In 1962 the chapter put up a frame social hall behind the house, enclosed the porte cochere, raised the south wing to match the north wing, and replaced the main stair.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Binkley Baptist Church takes James Forbes as a student intern

Under Robert Seymour, Binkley Memorial Baptist Church accepted James A. Forbes Jr., a Black divinity student, as its intern in 1962.

Part of Binkley Baptist and the Community Church of Chapel Hill · 13 events

Failing roof trusses at the Naval Armory are replaced with steel

In 1962 three of the armory's wooden roof trusses failed from a design flaw and poor 1942 lumber, and scaffolding held up the drill hall roof; Clancy and Theys Construction swapped in steel trusses one at a time, finishing in 1963 at a cost of about $25,500.

Four high-rise dormitories go up on UNC's south campus

Between 1962 and 1967 the firm of Graves and Toy built Craig, Ehringhaus, Morrison and Hinton James, steel-framed residence towers faced in brick and grouped around Chase Hall at the south edge of campus. Open metal balconies on the back serve as hallways to the student suites.

Frederick Brooks gives a guest lecture at UNC

While working on IBM's System/360, Brooks visited UNC for an interview and a guest lecture, Ten Research Problems in Computer Science, which impressed the administration and led to the new department.

Julius Chambers graduates first in his class from the UNC School of Law

Chambers graduated first in his class from the University's School of Law in Chapel Hill in 1962. He went on to practice civil rights law in Charlotte.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Lillian Hughes Prince leaves funds to the Carolina Playmakers

Lillian Hughes Prince, who had acted in thirty or more Playmakers productions, left considerable funds to the Carolina Playmakers in her will. She died in New York and was buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Subject: Carolina Playmakers · Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Nate Davis moves from Northside Elementary to Chapel Hill Junior High

In 1962, after sixth grade at Northside Elementary, Davis went to Chapel Hill Junior High School on Franklin Street as one of the first Black students in the town's formerly white schools. Harassment kept him out of school for two or three months, and he later attended the new Chapel Hill High School when it opened.

Subject: Chapel Hill High School · Northside School

Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School

Members of the Chapel Hill and Durham Friends meetings founded Carolina Friends School as a purposely integrated school, beginning with early education programs in the two meeting houses. Mildred Ringwalt was one of the seven founders and the first clerk of its board of trustees.

Robert Burns and Brian Shawcroft design a house for Robert Work on Hillcrest Circle

Robert Burns and Brian Shawcroft designed the 1962 house at 214 Hillcrest Circle for the chemist Robert Work and his wife: two levels stepped into the hillside, a glazed rear wall, an elevated deck and a central open stair. It won a national Homes for Better Living award and a state AIA award.

Law dean Henry Brandis Jr. turns down Albert Coates's last appeal for a merger

Coates sent Dean Henry Brandis Jr. a pleading letter with thirty-nine pages of enclosures urging that the Institute become part of the law school. Brandis refused to reopen the question and said that once Coates returned to full-time teaching, Institute staff would no longer teach his courses, since their part had weakened the school's instruction.

People: Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Carl Smith leads the Democratic primary for Orange County commissioner

Carl Smith of Chapel Hill topped the six-man Democratic primary for three county commissioner seats with 3,783 votes, ahead of Gordon Cleveland and Donald McDade; nomination usually amounted to election in the county.

Chapel Hill Human Relations Committee asks for a Black nurse on the district health staff

At a Chapel Hill Human Relations Committee meeting, Esther Atwater said the district health department needed a Black nurse on its staff. Chairman Dr. William Joyner said he would take the request to District Health Officer Dr. O. D. Garvin.

People: O. David Garvin

Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute

After Coates would not name a successor through months of talks, Chancellor William B. Aycock picked assistant director John Sanders, then thirty-five, who accepted in a short meeting with Aycock and Dean of Faculty James Godfrey. Sanders, on the staff since October 1956, took over when Coates left the post on August 31, 1962.

People: Albert Coates

The Orange Printshop closes after 39 years

The Orange Printshop, founded by Louis Graves in 1923 with the Chapel Hill Weekly, stopped work at the close of business on August 15, 1962. W. M. Pugh had run it as lessee since the 1940s, and the building had just been sold to the Bank of Chapel Hill.

Subject: The Orange Printshop

Albert Coates retires as director of the Institute of Government

Coates retired as director of the Institute he founded on August 31, 1962, but stayed on the law faculty, teaching full time until about 1967 and a reduced load until a stroke in early 1968.

Subject: Institute of Government

Chapel Hill Planning Board reviews the Research Triangle Planning Area land use plan

The Chapel Hill Planning Board held a special meeting to review the Research Triangle Planning Commission's land use plan for the planning area, which projected population and density to 1980. The Chapel Hill Weekly described the plan as a major guide for future zoning changes and school locations.

Pat Cusick organizes a student peace group that becomes UNC's Student Peace Union chapter

On December 3, 1962 Pat Cusick announced the formation of Students for Peace, a UNC group that had adopted the Student Peace Union's statement of purpose. Later that month the group won approval as the UNC chapter of the national Student Peace Union, with Cusick as its leader.

Arthur Cogswell designs a barrel-vaulted concrete house for David Hill

In 1963 Cogswell built a concrete house with a barrel-vaulted roof at 205 Wood Circle in Coker Hills for Duke engineering professor David Hill, an example of the period's trials of new building materials.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Chapel Hill Town Hall is remodeled with a mezzanine over the old fire bays

A general remodeling added a mezzanine over the first-floor fire engine garage and a new stair, and the engine doors on Columbia Street were later filled with windows.

Subject: Chapel Hill Town Hall (1938)

Floyd McKissick sends organizers to Chapel Hill and defends arrested demonstrators

As head of CORE's Durham office, McKissick sent organizer Quinton Baker to Chapel Hill in 1963 to teach nonviolence and demonstration tactics, and he acted as attorney for many demonstrators arrested there. Letters to him in 1964 include one written from the Orange County jail.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: John Dunne

Guy B. Johnson is named Kenan professor of anthropology and sociology

Johnson became Kenan professor of anthropology and sociology at UNC in 1963 and retired six years later.

Inter-Church Council forms

Seven women’s organizing led to coordinated local poverty relief.

Subject: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

James Brittian is expelled from Lincoln High School after a civil rights march

Brittian, a student at the segregated Lincoln High School, was expelled for taking part in a civil rights protest march. He then became chairman of the Student Commission, a branch of the Chapel Hill Freedom Commission.

Part of Segregated schooling and the rise of Lincoln and Central High Schools · 44 events

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Peg Owens takes over Lake Forest and names it Lake Forest Estates

Peg Owens bought part of the Lake Forest subdivision in 1963 and carried on its development. She also acquired the land west of Eastwood Lake along today's North Shore Drive, laid out its streets and built many of its first houses between 1965 and 1968, and gave the whole area the name Lake Forest Estates.

The Chapel Hill Weekly moves into the old Harris-Connors Chevrolet agency on West Franklin

The town's weekly paper took over the space the Chevrolet dealer had left. Renamed the Chapel Hill Newspaper, it moved a few doors west in late 1973.

Subject: The Chapel Hill Weekly

UNC completes Coker Hall and names it for William C. Coker

The university completed a new building in 1963 and named it Coker Hall for William Chambers Coker, Kenan professor of botany and long-time head of the buildings and grounds committee.

Chapel Hill Planning Board favors a large village in response to the Triangle commission's development plan

Reviewing the Research Triangle Planning Commission staff's General Development Plan for Chapel Hill to 1980, the Planning Board went on record preferring that the town grow as a large village rather than a small city. The plan also addressed subdivision layout, a collector road system and a proposed lake on Bolin Creek north of town.

Student pickets begin marching outside the segregated College Cafe

The Student Peace Union and the NAACP put pickets in front of the segregated College Cafe on East Franklin Street, saying they would keep on until it integrated. The picketing led to the forming of the Committee for Open Business that May.

Subject: College Cafe

Floyd McKissick and Malcolm X appear together at UNC's Memorial Hall

A day after their meeting in Durham, Durham attorney Floyd McKissick and Malcolm X appeared at UNC in a meeting moved from Howell Hall to Memorial Hall when about 1,600 people came. McKissick said he believed the Muslim movement had grown out of the frustration of Black Americans.

Subject: Memorial Hall

NAACP chapter pickets North Carolina Memorial Hospital over segregated rooms and wards

The UNC chapter of the NAACP organized a picket in April 1963 to protest that private rooms and certain wards for Black patients at the hospital were still segregated, although outpatient clinics, recovery rooms, pediatrics and the cafeteria had been integrated. Hospital officials opposed the demonstration.

Part of Segregation and access to medical care · 14 events

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Gerard Tempest opens Villa Tempesta, an arts center and café, on East Franklin Street

More than 2,000 people toured artist Gerard Tempest's Villa Tempesta, an Italian-style villa built from pieces of the old Duke and Watts mansions in Durham, at its open house; its studios and espresso café opened for regular business the following Thursday.

Student Peace Union marchers protest the Armed Forces Day theme at the Chapel Hill post office

Led by chairman Pat Cusick, Student Peace Union members and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom marched silently alongside the Air Force ROTC drill team to the post office to protest the day's theme, Power for Peace. Spectators called out 'Communists', but no incidents occurred.

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

Research Triangle Planning Commission projects Chapel Hill school growth to

John Scott of the Research Triangle Planning Commission told the Chapel Hill School Board that district enrollment could reach 8,000 pupils by 1980, more than double the current number, and cited a 1960 township population of 25,000. The commission delivered its full report on school needs to 1980 by late July.

Aldermen hear Daniel Pollitt's opinion that Chapel Hill may pass a public accommodations law, then shelve it

At a Town Hall hearing attended by more than 200 people, Mayor Sandy McClamroch read an opinion by Pollitt that Chapel Hill had the authority to enact a public accommodations ordinance and that similar laws elsewhere had withstood court tests. The Board of Aldermen then voted 4 to 2 to postpone the ordinance indefinitely.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

People: Sandy McClamroch

Police carry out demonstrators sitting in at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association office

Members of the Committee for Open Business sat in and sang in the Merchants Association office on West Franklin Street to press merchants to desegregate. Police carried out 27 on trespass warrants signed by director Joe Augustine, and 34 were arrested that day in all.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Harold Foster · Pat Cusick

Fire breaks out in the Rathskeller and spreads through its East Franklin Street building

A fire of unknown origin started in the wall behind a stove in the Rathskeller on a Thursday evening and crept through the walls of the building. Ted Danziger put the damage to the restaurant and his Old World Gift Center at about $70,000, and water stood ankle deep in Amber Alley.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

Pat Cusick leads a CURED march down West Franklin Street

Sixty-eight members of Citizens United for Racial Equality and Dignity, led by Pat Cusick, marched from St. Joseph's Church on West Rosemary Street down West Franklin Street to the Carolina Grill on a Friday night, singing a few songs. A street march to the post office was planned for the next day.

A Chapel Hill bus leaves for the March on Washington

The Student Peace Union, with Pat Cusick as coordinator, organized a bus from Chapel Hill to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Cusick reported every seat filled, with the bus to leave about midnight August 27-28 and reach Washington the next morning.

George Esser proposes an ordinance barring discrimination by new Chapel Hill businesses

After the aldermen declined a public accommodations law in June, Esser suggested as a private citizen an ordinance that would bar racial discrimination by businesses opening in the future, applied like zoning rules. The Board of Aldermen began considering it in August while the Committee for Open Business kept up its marches.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

A tobacco truck crashes into Carlton Mize's Rock Pile store

A tractor-trailer carrying 25,000 pounds of tobacco went out of control and crashed into the side of the Rock Pile, Carlton Mize's grocery on the Chapel Hill-Durham Road. No one was hurt, but the west wall was crushed and the front windows shattered.

Subject: The Rock Pile

The Bank of Chapel Hill merges into North Carolina National Bank

At the close of business on September 27, 1963, the Bank of Chapel Hill, founded in 1899, became part of North Carolina National Bank. Its office at 137 East Franklin Street made Chapel Hill the twelfth city in the NCNB system.

People: Collier Cobb, Jr

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

Daniel Pollitt's law review article calls the Speaker Ban constitutionally suspect

Pollitt's article Campus Censorship: The North Carolina Visiting Speakers Law, written for the December 1963 North Carolina Law Review, argued that the Speaker Ban raised serious problems of free speech, self-incrimination and due process. The Daily Tar Heel called it the first known legal analysis of the law by a lawyer outside the attorney general's office.

Karen Parker is arrested at a sit-in at Leo's restaurant

Parker, UNC's first Black woman undergraduate and a CORE member, went with other demonstrators to Leo's, a segregated restaurant in downtown Chapel Hill, where they were arrested and taken to jail. She described it in her diary entry of December 18.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

John Dunne gives up his Morehead scholarship to work in the Chapel Hill movement

By December 1963 John Dunne had stopped pretending to finish school, gave up his Morehead scholarship and devoted his time to the Freedom Movement in Chapel Hill. He joined the Congress of Racial Equality and led protests at segregated restaurants.

Sit-in demonstrators at the Rock Pile are doused with ammonia

Around New Year's Day 1964, sit-in demonstrators at the Rock Pile, Carlton Mize's segregated grocery on the Durham Road, were doused with ammonia and bleach water. Seven were treated for burns, among them NAACP youth leader Quinton Baker; four were arrested, and thirteen more were arrested at a second sit-in there the next day, when five more needed treatment.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: John Dunne

Subject: The Rock Pile

Arthur Cogswell designs the Koch House on Clayton Road

In 1964 Cogswell designed a one-story, flat-roofed house for botany professor Arthur Koch at 401 Clayton Road in Coker Hills: a floor plate projecting from a block base, with glass walls opening to a deck over a pond. It received a North Carolina AIA award.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Binkley moves to Willow Drive

The congregation occupied its first permanent building.

Fanny McDade, laundress to generations of students, is buried at 103 in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Fanny McDade (1861-1964), an African American woman who did students' laundry for many years, died at 103 and is thought to be the oldest person buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Graham Memorial passes from student union to the Department of Dramatic Arts

Graham Memorial, the student union for 27 years, was turned over to the drama department after the new Frank Porter Graham Student Union opened elsewhere on campus.

Subject: Graham Memorial

Isaac M. Taylor serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine

Taylor succeeded W. Reece Berryhill as dean in 1964. Student enrollment, faculty and research funding grew during his deanship, and a ten-year capital building program began that produced Berryhill Hall, the first phase of the Health Sciences Library, and the Brinkhous-Bullitt and Burnett-Womack Buildings.

People: W. Reece Berryhill

Subject: UNC School of Medicine · UNC Libraries

Joe Straley chairs the Committee of Concerned Citizens

The UNC physics professor Joe Straley chaired the Committee of Concerned Citizens, a group of Chapel Hill residents dedicated to civil rights, in 1964 and 1965.

Realtors steer Howard and Lillian Lee away from white subdivisions

After moving to Chapel Hill for graduate study, Howard and Lillian Lee searched for about six months while realtors hesitated to show them houses in white subdivisions. They bought in Colony Woods, then received threatening calls and had a cross burned on their lawn.

People: Howard N. Lee

The old school buildings and the Caesar Cone house on West Franklin are razed for a bank and University Square East

Chapel Hill's old elementary and high school buildings on West Franklin came down, along with the house known as the Caesar Cone house. Central Carolina Bank & Trust and the University Square East shopping center went up in their place.

UNC founds its computer science department under Frederick Brooks

Brooks, 33, founded what became the Department of Computer Science, the second free-standing doctorate-granting department of its kind in the United States; it was first called Information Science and took the name computer science in 1971.

Werner Hausler joins Arthur Cogswell's Chapel Hill architecture firm

Arthur Cogswell, who had opened his own practice in Chapel Hill in 1962, hired Werner Hausler in 1964. By 1967 the two were partners in Cogswell/Hausler.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Chapel Hill aldermen vote down a public accommodations ordinance

The Board of Aldermen rejected, 4 to 2, an ordinance that would have required all town businesses to serve Black customers, and set up a nine-member committee on race relations instead. Integration leaders promised more demonstrations.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

People: Adelaide Walters

Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law

A report prepared by George Esser at the aldermen's request, gathering cases from all fifty states on a town's power to pass a public accommodations law, was completed and handed to Town Manager Robert Peck for the aldermen days before their vote. Esser said it showed the probable attitude of North Carolina courts toward a town using its general welfare power for that purpose.

Part of The Chapel Hill civil-rights demonstrations, 1963–1964 · 16 events

Subject: Institute of Government

Survey finds N.C. Memorial Hospital still separates patients by race

A Daily Tar Heel survey of Chapel Hill accommodations listed North Carolina Memorial Hospital among places keeping segregation, with director E. B. Crawford Jr. saying the hospital had two floors of mostly Black patients and did not generally integrate patient rooms.

Part of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the medical center, from 1952 · 24 events

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Thirty-nine demonstrators are arrested sitting on the steps of Brady's Restaurant

On a Sunday night, 39 demonstrators, seven of them white, were arrested after sitting three deep on the front steps of the segregated Brady's Restaurant and blocking the door. The night before, 53 had been arrested in sit-downs in front of Brady's and the Rock Pile.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: The Rock Pile

Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students

At the Chapel Hill school board meeting, Mrs. Gloria Williams, speaking for parents of students who had joined the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee's boycott of Lincoln High School, asked that all of them be readmitted. The board upheld the expulsion of two senior leaders, Henry Sanford and James Brittain, after Superintendent Howard Thompson said he would resign if they returned.

Part of Segregated schooling and the rise of Lincoln and Central High Schools · 44 events

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School · Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

More than 25,000 Orange County residents take Sabin oral polio vaccine on one Sunday

The Durham-Orange County Medical Foundation ran a Sunday oral polio vaccine campaign at eight public school feeding stations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Cedar Grove and Efland. A total of 25,679 people took the vaccine on a sugar cube, about 56 percent of the county, with Glenwood School alone serving 5,063; a second dose was set for May 17.

A Klan rally gathers at the post office fast and a UNC student is struck

On the fast's seventh day a Ku Klux Klan rally drew onlookers to the Franklin Street post office, where textile worker Milford Cordell Hill of Gold Hill struck UNC senior Louis S. Calhoun Jr. and knocked off his glasses; police officers who saw it swore out complaints.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

The Holy Week fast ends on Easter Sunday and the Rev. LaVert Taylor is hospitalized

The five fasters finished their eight-day water-only fast in front of the post office on Easter Sunday. The Rev. LaVert Taylor of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was admitted to Memorial Hospital with an upset stomach afterward; James Foushee had been treated there during the fast and released.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Pat Cusick · John Dunne

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

The Committee of Concerned Citizens raises about $400 for injured demonstrators and the hospitalized faster

Committee members served bread and cheese for donations twice a day in the basement of the First Baptist Church, raising about $400 to cover the hospital bills of demonstrators hurt in sit-ins and of the Rev. LaVert Taylor after the fast.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Subject: First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast

Judge William S. Stewart fined Milford Cordell Hill $50 and costs for striking Louis S. Calhoun Jr. at the scene of the fast on March 28, on complaints sworn out by the police officers who saw it.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

A Burger Chef hamburger stand opens at 337 West Rosemary Street

A Burger Chef franchise opened at 337 West Rosemary Street at 11 a.m. on May 6, 1964, selling 15-cent broiled hamburgers, shakes and fries. A week later it was advertising for more help.

Austin Watts and his staff attack civil rights testers at Watts Restaurant

The night after the Civil Rights Act was signed, a mixed group of testers seeking service at Watts Restaurant was turned away and, the testers said, attacked with fists and clubs, and owner Austin Watts was charged with striking Pete Leak. Watts was convicted of assault in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on July 21 and fined the costs of court.

Clarence's Bar and Grill turns away an integrated group the day after the Civil Rights Act

Five white people and one Black person asked for service at Clarence's Bar and Grill on West Franklin Street. Owner Clarence Gray refused them, saying he thought one of them was drunk. Testers visited other Chapel Hill restaurants that weekend as well.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

Paul F. Sharp serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill

Sharp was chief administrative officer of the university at Chapel Hill from September 1, 1964 to February 15, 1966. His records document the state's speaker ban law and programs in medical education, and he left to become president of Drake University.

A state act limits Orange County school board elections to voters outside the Chapel Hill school unit

A 1965 act (H.S. 695) provided that only county voters living outside the enlarged Chapel Hill school administrative unit could vote in elections for the Orange County Board of Education.

Albert Coates starts the Institute of Civic Education in the University's Extension Division

With no place offered by the Institute of Government or the law school, Coates set up an Institute of Civic Education under Extension Division director Charles Milner, paid for by the Richardson Foundation and a $50,000 yearly state appropriation approved by Governor Terry Sanford. In the summer of 1965 it brought high school civics and government teachers to Chapel Hill for short courses in state history and government.

People: Terry Sanford

Architect Arthur Cogswell adds a flat-roofed art studio to the Voitle house on Country Club Road

The low modern studio at the rear has vertical wood siding and large fixed windows, a sharp contrast to the 1930s cottage in front of it.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm

Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County.

People: Roberta C. Andrews

Subject: Bolin Brook Farm (Troy and Roberta Andrews House)

Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house on Davie Lane for chemist Donald A. Seanor

Architect Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house in the Glendale subdivision for Donald A. Seanor, an English-born research chemist at the Chemstrand Research Center; it was commissioned in 1963 and dated 1965.

Chapel Hill Weekly founder Louis Graves is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Louis Graves (1883-1965), founder, publisher and editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Chase Hall, the campus's first modernist building, goes up on south campus

Chase Hall, a dining hall designed by Milton Small and Associates of Raleigh and built in 1965, is a glass and steel International Style building that appears to hover over a recessed concrete base. The book calls it the first modernist building erected on the campus; Small had studied under Mies van der Rohe.

Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs

The Courts kept the East Franklin store where it was for about two years, then moved it to University Square East in 1967 when North Carolina National Bank began expanding.

People: Clyde Eubanks

Don Stewart's Carmichael Auditorium is completed as the state's largest single-span building

Stewart designed Carmichael Auditorium, finished in 1965, with a roof carried on steel beams held by steel tie rods anchored in the ground. The book says it was the largest single-span building in North Carolina when it was built.

People: Don Stewart

Subject: Carmichael Auditorium (Carmichael Arena)

Eric Van Loon chairs the Carolina Political Union

A Daily Tar Heel profile in May 1966 reported that Van Loon, a junior from Nashville, had spent the past year as chairman of the Carolina Political Union, vice president of the debating team, National Student Association campus coordinator, a Morrison resident adviser and treasurer of the Carolina Symposium.

James L. Godfrey chairs the history department

Godfrey chaired UNC's Department of History from 1965 to 1973.

Morrison Residence Hall opens, named for Cameron Morrison

The university completed Morrison Residence Hall, a men's dormitory, in 1965 and named it for former governor Cameron Morrison, an influential trustee who had backed the university's expansion program in the 1920s.

Paul and Isabel Smith sell the Intimate Bookshop to Wallace Kuralt

The Smiths sold the East Franklin bookshop to Kuralt but kept running a rare-book department inside the store until the end of 1968.

People: Isabel Smith

Subject: The Intimate Bookshop

Ruth Anderson Stephens becomes the first Black graduate of UNC's School of Nursing

Ruth Anderson Stephens completed the School of Nursing's master's program in nursing education and administration in 1965, the school's first African American graduate.

Stewart and Anderson build a new office on Estes Drive as Webb stays in the old Methodist church

In the mid-1960s Don Stewart and Bob Anderson bought a lot on Estes Drive and built a new office for the firm, while James Webb returned to the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street, the firm's former office, where he worked until he retired.

People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb

Subject: Old Methodist Church (Rosemary Street)

UNC names its Chapel Hill gymnasium for William D. Carmichael Jr.

Four years after his death the university named the gymnasium at Chapel Hill for Carmichael. NCpedia lists buildings named for him on three campuses, the television building at Greensboro, the gymnasium at Raleigh and the auditorium at Chapel Hill.

People: William D. Carmichael Jr.

Subject: Carmichael Auditorium (Carmichael Arena)

William F. Little chairs the chemistry department

Little, who had come to Carolina as a chemistry instructor in 1956, became department chair in 1965 at 35. He hired young scholars and nearly doubled the faculty to 30.

Jim Medford is elected president of the campus YMCA

A Daily Tar Heel photograph taken on the steps of South Building shows Jim Medford as the newly elected YMCA president with the other officers chosen in the campus Y election.

Subject: University YMCA

"Get out of Vietnam" is painted on the gun outside the Naval Armory

Overnight, someone lettered an antiwar slogan on the antiaircraft gun on the armory lawn; NROTC officers called it a childish prank.

Harper and Row publishes John Ehle's The Free Men, an account of the Chapel Hill protests

Ehle's nonfiction book traced the 1963–1964 civil rights campaign in Chapel Hill through three of its leaders, John Dunne, Pat Cusick and Quinton Baker, from the first pickets at a cafe to mass arrests and long prison sentences.

People: Pat Cusick · John Dunne

Bob Powell is named executive director of the Carolina Forum

The Daily Tar Heel's list of student government appointments made by Student Body President Paul Dickson gives Bob Powell as executive director of the Carolina Forum for the 1965-66 year.

People: Paul Dickson III

Medford is named to the student government State Affairs committee

Student Body President Paul Dickson's committee appointments, printed in the Daily Tar Heel, put Jim Medford on the State Affairs committee along with Henry Patterson and Taylor Branch.

People: Paul Dickson III

Eunice Milton is listed among the members of the Order of Valkyries

When the Order of Valkyries, described by the Daily Tar Heel as the highest women's honorary organization on campus, tapped new members in November 1965, Eunice Milton was named among the seven continuing members. She appears again in the honorary's March 1966 list.

Adelaide Walters chairs the Inter-Church Council's housing committee

After leaving the Board of Aldermen, Adelaide Walters chaired the housing committee of the Inter-Church Council for Social Service (later the Inter-Faith Council) from 1966 to 1973. Her papers deal with civil rights for Black residents of Chapel Hill and with urban and regional planning.

Subject: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

Arthur Cogswell designs a pyramid-roofed house for Marion Townend

At 411 Clayton Road in Coker Hills, Cogswell designed a house in 1966 for Marion Townend under a tall pyramidal roof. A skylight at the peak lights the central living room and the rooms around it, whose light shifts as the sun moves.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Baptist Association rejects Binkley membership

The local association denied admission over Binkley’s open membership policy.

C. Hugh Holman serves as UNC provost

Holman, dean of the Graduate School from 1963 to 1966, served as provost of the University of North Carolina from 1966 to 1968 and later as special assistant to the chancellor.

Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Public Library building on East Franklin Street

Around 1965 library committee head Mrs. Richmond P. Bond asked Stewart about a traditional design; he said he was not a traditional architect and suggested Durham's William Van Sprinkle, but the committee kept Stewart and his modern plan. The 1966 building uses sloping native stone walls and stained wood to fit among the older faculty houses on East Franklin Street.

People: Don Stewart

Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library

Eric Van Loon becomes assistant to the student body president

After Robert S. Powell Jr. was elected student body president in the spring of 1966, the Daily Tar Heel reported that Van Loon had newly taken on the roles of student legislator, National Student Association delegate and presidential assistant to Powell. He had run unsuccessfully for student body treasurer the previous spring.

People: Robert S. Powell Jr.

Eunice Milton serves as president of the campus YWCA

The Daily Tar Heel called Milton the YWCA president when it reported the filing of the Speaker Ban suit on April 1, 1966, and the former YWCA president when it reported on the case in May.

People: James A. Medford

Fire destroys Kemp Nye's record store on East Franklin Street

Kemp's record shop burned out in 1966. A Burger King later opened in a small store on the site.

John E. Greenbacker Jr. leads the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary society

The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Greenbacker as president of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society, one of the recognized student organizations whose officers brought the Speaker Ban suit. The Daily Tar Heel likewise named him as Di-Phi president among the ten student leaders who wrote to Chancellor Sitterson on March 1, 1966.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

John E. Greenbacker Jr. serves as associate editor of the Daily Tar Heel

The masthead of the December 7, 1966 Daily Tar Heel lists Greenbacker as associate editor under editor Fred Thomas. He wrote signed opinion pieces, and a letter in the same issue takes issue with his Sunday column profiling the SDS leader Gary Waller.

People: Gary Waller

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel

Northside Elementary closed as the school system integrated

The Caldwell Street school closed soon after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools began mandatory integration in 1966, and the building was turned into office space.

Part of School desegregation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1959–1967 · 24 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

Stuart Matthews serves on the steering committee of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society

The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Matthews as a member of the steering committee of Students for a Democratic Society, one of the recognized campus organizations whose officers brought the suit. The Daily Tar Heel adds that Matthews and Gary Waller invited Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak under SDS sponsorship on January 3, 1966.

People: Gary Waller · Frank Wilkinson · Herbert Aptheker

The Mary Manning house on East Franklin Street, where Arthur Nash boarded, is torn down

Nash lodged with Mary Manning from his arrival in 1922 until his own house was finished in 1926. The house stood at what is now 507 East Franklin Street, first numbered 402.

The Presbyterians sell their East Franklin manse to Gordon L. McAndrews

After 77 years of ownership, the church sold its manse at 513 East Franklin, the house William Mercer Green built in the 1840s and Charles Phillips later owned, to McAndrews.

Carolina Forum chairman George Nicholson answers Professor W. C. George on the Forum's speakers

Nicholson told the Daily Tar Heel that the Forum invited both liberals and conservatives, naming Strom Thurmond and Ross Barnett among its recent guests, after the segregationist UNC professor W. C. George said it largely ignored conservative racial views.

People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George)

The Botanical Garden Foundation is incorporated, with William Lanier Hunt as its founder

Hunt, a member of the garden's advisory board, led the effort to form a private foundation to raise money, hold land and speak for the North Carolina Botanical Garden. At its first annual meeting in 1967 he was elected its first president, and 291 people and 18 organizations joined as charter members.

Subject: North Carolina Botanical Garden

Students for a Democratic Society invites Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak at UNC

The UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society invited Frank Wilkinson, who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned in California about Communist activities, and the Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus. After the trustees barred both men, Student Government under Paul Dickson, the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Forum, the YMCA and YWCA, the Di-Phi and the Carolina Political Union joined SDS in renewing the invitations.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Frank Wilkinson · Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA

Dickson, Nicholson and McCrary invite Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus

Three of the students who later sued invited Aptheker to speak at Chapel Hill on March 9, 1966 under the sponsorship of Student Government, the Carolina Forum and the Daily Tar Heel. Aptheker accepted two days later.

Part of Wall speeches at the campus line, 1966 · 19 events

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Gary Waller joins a student panel on the Speaker Ban in Memorial Hall

The Daily Tar Heel reported that student body president Paul Dickson presided over a noon meeting of students and faculty in Memorial Hall, with a panel of four that included Waller, Carolina Conservative Club president Wilson Clark and the SDS faculty advisers Joseph Straley and Lewis Lipsitz. The meeting adopted a resolution about four and a half hours before the trustees' executive committee voted 8 to 3 to bar Herbert Aptheker from speaking.

People: Paul Dickson III

Subject: Memorial Hall

UNC trustees' executive committee bars Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker from the Chapel Hill campus

Meeting in Governor Dan K. Moore's office in Raleigh, the executive committee of the UNC board of trustees voted 8 to 3 to deny university facilities to Aptheker and Wilkinson and suspended all other invitations covered by the speaker ban law until the full board adopted rules. Earlier that day more than 800 students and faculty at a Memorial Hall meeting had backed Aptheker's right to speak.

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker · Dan K. Moore

Subject: Memorial Hall

Nicholson criticizes SDS over the Aptheker invitation while backing the principle

The Carolina Forum chairman called the Students for a Democratic Society invitation to Herbert Aptheker ill-timed and planned for sensationalism, and said the Forum had joined the invitation only in support of the principle of free speech.

People: Herbert Aptheker

Nicholson rebuts the Conservative Club chairman's charge about Forum speakers

Answering Carolina Conservative Club chairman Wilson Clark, Nicholson said the Forum's budget was 2,000 dollars rather than 6,000, that it had invited conservative speakers, and that John Birch Society founder Robert Welch was coming to campus later that month.

J. Carlyle Sitterson serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill

Sitterson was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16, 1966 to January 31, 1972. His records as chancellor cover desegregation and the federal HEW lawsuit, the Speaker Ban law, protest against the Vietnam War and campus unrest.

Stuart Matthews and Gary Waller write to Chancellor Sitterson inviting Herbert Aptheker

On the day the full board of trustees adopted new speaker regulations, Matthews and Waller wrote to Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson for the UNC Chapel Hill chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, asking that Herbert Aptheker be allowed to speak on campus about the war in Vietnam on March 9. The letter set out his publications, speaking engagements and his Supreme Court passport case.

Part of Wall speeches at the campus line, 1966 · 19 events

People: Gary Waller · J. Carlyle Sitterson · Herbert Aptheker

The UNC Board of Trustees adopts visiting-speaker procedures under the amended Speaker Ban

Acting under G.S. 116-199 and 116-200, the full Board of Trustees adopted procedures requiring recognized student groups to clear invitations to covered speakers with the chancellor. The students complied with them when they renewed the Wilkinson and Aptheker invitations, and the court later found the procedures as vague as the statute.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: William C. Friday · J. Carlyle Sitterson

Gary Waller becomes chairman of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society

A UNC Libraries exhibit states that Waller, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, was vice chairman of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and became chairman when Jim McCorkel resigned on February 2, 1966 to spend more time on his graduate studies.

Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules

The day after the full board of trustees adopted speaker regulations on February 28, Paul Dickson and leaders of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Daily Tar Heel, the Di-Phi, Students for a Democratic Society and the Carolina Political Union formally told Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson that Wilkinson was invited for March 2 and Aptheker for March 9. Wilkinson spoke to the Duke Bar Association in Durham that day.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker · George E. Nicholson III · Robert S. Powell Jr. · James A. Medford · Eunice H. Milton · John E. Greenbacker Jr. · Eric Van Loon · Gary Waller · Stuart Matthews

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA

Barred from Carroll Hall, Frank Wilkinson speaks to about 350 people at the Hillel House

That evening campus security officer Arthur Beaumont, acting on the chancellor's orders, kept Wilkinson, Paul Dickson and about 200 students out of Carroll Hall, and the group moved to the Hillel House on Cameron Avenue, where almost 350 people heard Wilkinson speak on HUAC. He told them a test case with several plaintiffs would be prepared at once.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III

Herbert Aptheker gives his evening talk at the Community Church

Kept off campus, Aptheker gave his evening talk to about 350 people at the interdenominational Community Church on Purefoy Road. Paul Dickson then announced a Free Speech Defense Fund to pay for a lawsuit.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: Community Church of Chapel Hill

Herbert Aptheker speaks to students across the McCorkle Place wall

At noon Paul Dickson led Aptheker, invited by SDS and the Committee for Free Inquiry, onto McCorkle Place near the Confederate monument, where campus police chief Arthur Beaumont halted Dickson's introduction and warned of arrest. Aptheker crossed the low stone wall to the Franklin Street sidewalk and spoke to a crowd estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 on the campus side.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Student leaders ask the chancellor to let Wilkinson and Aptheker speak on campus

Paul Dickson and the heads of Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, Di-Phi, the Carolina Political Union and SDS wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson asking that Wilkinson speak on March 23 and Aptheker on March 25, or on later dates.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III · George E. Nicholson III · Robert S. Powell Jr. · James A. Medford · Eunice H. Milton · John E. Greenbacker Jr. · Eric Van Loon · Gary Waller · Stuart Matthews

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA