Background on UNC’s student strike against the Vietnam War, May 1970
These works give background on UNC’s student strike against the Vietnam War, May 1970, the wider story this person is part of (42 works in all). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
Oral history interview with Sharon Rose Powell, June 20, 1989: interview L-0041, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Powell, Sharon Rose · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Sharon Rose Powell (born 1947) began at UNC as a freshman in autumn 1964, when women were only about a tenth of the entering class. Interviewed by Pamela Dean in June 1989, she recalls campus life for women students in the mid-1960s, the sexism she met in higher education, the student movements of the decade, and her own path toward feminism and women's rights work. About two hours and ten minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2008, through Documenting the American South.
I raised my hand to volunteer: students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill : an exhibit of the Manuscripts Department in the Wilson Library
Hollingsworth, Biff · 2007
Catalog of an exhibit mounted by the Manuscripts Department of Wilson Library from January 23 to May 31, 2007, on student protest in Chapel Hill during the 1960s. Topics include civil rights demonstrations, the Speaker Ban Law, the Black Student Movement, restaurant strikes and Vietnam War protests at the university. Compiled by Biff Hollingsworth, 59 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, published by the university library.
Oral history interview with Anne Queen, November 22, 1976: interview G-0049-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Queen, Anne · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Second of two Southern Oral History Program interviews with Anne Queen (1911-2005), who came to Chapel Hill after years as an industrial worker and went on to direct the Campus YWCA-YMCA, a center of student activism. Recorded November 22, 1976, by Joseph Herzenberg, this hour-long conversation covers how Queen saw politics in the South and the nation change through the mid-twentieth century, and student political activity at UNC. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 22, 2001: interview K-0215, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
A separate interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 22, 2001, by David Potorti for the Southern Oral History Program, 75 minutes long. Pollitt traces his liberal convictions on race and religion to a family of ministers, soldiers and lawyers, describes clerking for an appeals court judge, and recounts his part in the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill: opposition to local segregation, school integration in North Carolina, and student movements at the university. Published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 19, 1990: interview L-0048, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Law professor Daniel H. Pollitt remembers Anne Queen (1911-2005), director of UNC's Campus Y, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded November 19, 1990, by Cindy Cheatham. Queen's commitment to social justice matched Pollitt's own work for racial equality and support of student activists, and he describes her Campus Y as the place where students concerned with civil rights in segregated Chapel Hill gathered and learned to organize. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with William C. Friday, December 18, 1990: interview L-0049, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Friday, William C. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
William C. Friday, UNC system president from 1957 until 1986, was interviewed by Cindy Cheatham in December 1990 about Anne Queen (1911-2005). Queen came to the campus YWCA as associate director in 1956 and led the merged YMCA-YWCA from 1964 to 1975. Friday recalls working with her through the years of student political activity in Chapel Hill and reflects on the place of the Y in university life. About forty minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, through Documenting the American South.
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Icons of Power and Landscapes of Protest
Roseboro, Donyell L. · 2005
Donyell L. Roseboro's 2005 doctoral dissertation on the student movement for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It examines African American student activism and student organizations on the Chapel Hill campus. A typescript of 307 leaves with illustrations, distributed through UMI.
Progress and protests : UNC-Chapel Hill leaders during "the Long Sixties" (1957-1972) : covering chancellors William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp, and J. Carlyle Sitterson
Roundtree, Lynn · 2024 · Lynn Roundtree
Lynn Roundtree covers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1957 and 1972 through its three chancellors, William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp and J. Carlyle Sitterson, set against the student movements of those years. Part of the Coates university leadership series, published by the author in 2024 and running to 926 pages. It is twentieth century campus history.
I raised my hand to volunteer : students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill.
2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Account of student protest in 1960s Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with illustrations. It draws together the civil rights movement and segregation in the town, discrimination in restaurants, academic freedom and university autonomy, protest against the Vietnam War, Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Student Movement on campus.
Red state, blue heaven : the conservative student movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David, Eric M. · 2005
Eric M. David reports on the conservative student movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, written in 2005 for a committee of Chris Roush as advisor with Ferrel Guillory and Thad Beyle. It examines student movements and political activity. Sixty leaves with three preliminary pages.
Left turn : the Carolina journal of radical thought.
2001
Left turn, a journal of radical thought published by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001, documenting campus political writing and student movements.
Caution and candor : the student movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1929-1940
Donovan, Sarah Elizabeth · 1998
Sarah Elizabeth Donovan's study of student political activity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1929 and 1940, written in 1998. Eighty two leaves with a bibliography at the end. The period she covers runs from the start of the Depression to the eve of American entry into the Second World War.
