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Yonni Chapman worked at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1985, co-founded the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience in 1982, and as a UNC history graduate student led the Freedom Legacy Project and the campaign that ended the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award. He died in Chapel Hill in 2009.
Source: NCpedia: Chapman, John Kenyon (Yonni)
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Commemorative booklet from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History marking twenty years since the UNC housekeepers' agreement. Sixteen unnumbered pages with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits, published at Chapel Hill in 2016. Topics include the UNC Housekeepers Association, labor unions among housekeepers, and discrimination in employment at the university.
The newsletter of the UNC Housekeepers Association, dated 1996 and published in Chapel Hill by the association itself. Its subject is the living wage movement in the town, the campaign housekeeping staff at the university waged over pay and treatment. A serial.
Editorial cartoon drawn by Dwane Powell for The News and Observer on 14 August 1993, bringing together UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Paul Hardin, the Nike company and education. From Powell's syndicate copies and clippings, folder 1993-29.
Paul Hardin, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, figures in this Dwane Powell cartoon on education, published in The News and Observer on 16 November 1993. Folder 1993-42 of Powell's syndicate copies and clippings.
Editorial cartoon by Dwane Powell, printed in The News and Observer on 10 October 1993, drawing together Bill Clinton, UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Paul Hardin, the Nike company and education. Syndicate copies and clippings, folder 1993-37.
Dwane Powell's cartoon for The News and Observer of 3 October 1993 brings in Bill Clinton, Chancellor Paul Hardin of UNC-Chapel Hill, the Nike company and education. Folder 1993-48 of his syndicate copies and clippings.
Marsha Tinnen assembled this material on the UNC Housekeepers Association, 1991 to 2003, roughly fifty items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5712-z. Topics include housekeepers and labor unions in Chapel Hill, the living wage movement, community organization in North Carolina, university employees, and the name of Jesse Jackson.
Records from the chancellorship of Paul Hardin III at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 76,800 items in ninety six linear feet covering 1988 to 1995, in the University Archives at UNC, 40025. Topics include African American students and the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, race relations on campus, janitors and other employees, fund raising, and curriculum and campus planning.
University Day, 1988: the ceremony installing Paul Hardin as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, held on the one hundred ninety-fifth anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East on 12 October 1793. The folded sheet of six unnumbered pages includes the program for the day. Published by the university, 33 cm.
Papers of the historian Genna Rae McNeil, 1979 to 2022, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 70137. Subjects include the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and the UNC Housekeepers Association, together with African American scholars and African American women college teachers in Chapel Hill.
Staff periodical of the Housekeeping Division at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published on campus in 1974 and shelved as a folio. Topics include housekeepers at Chapel Hill, so the issues report news for the housekeeping workforce of the university. A small piece of campus employee publishing from the period.
The papers of the lawyer Alan McSurely, born 1936, span 1928 to 2003 with the bulk from the 1960s to the 1980s. Topics include the civil rights movement, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, employment discrimination in Chapel Hill and the UNC Housekeepers Association. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4928.
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