Rebecca Clark

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1932 Rebecca Clark moves to Chapel Hill and goes to work in a faculty home Clark, born around 1915 in Chatham County, moved to Chapel Hill in 1932 to live with a relative on Church Street. She went to work in the home of professor Vernon Howell while enrolled at the Orange County Training School.Search the index · UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Cheek-Clark Building
2. 1942 The Janitors' Association reorganizes as a CIO union local The Janitors' Association became Local 403-P of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America, a CIO union. Minutes of July 2, 1942 name pay as the most important matter, and laundry worker Rebecca Clark became a shop steward. People: Rebecca ClarkReclaiming the University of the People: Cheek-Clark Building
3. August 5, 1942 University laundry workers reject a piece-work plan and demand a wage increase Meeting by shifts, the laundry workers turned down the university's offer of piece rates with no assured raise. Their union wrote that it would take the matter to President Graham within a week if nothing changed. People: Rebecca Clark, L. B. RogersonSixty Years of Struggle: A Documented History of Housekeepers at U.N.C. (1996), scan p. 29
4. 1947 Local 403 petitions for student support in a campaign over university wages After the legislature approved a 20 percent raise for state employees and the university dropped a wartime bonus, Local 403 workers circulated petitions and flyers asking students for support. Under shop steward Rebecca Clark laundry workers won wage increases, safer workspaces and better schedules. People: Rebecca ClarkReclaiming the University of the People: Cheek-Clark Building
5. 1953 Rebecca Clark moves from the University Laundry to nursing at Memorial Hospital In 1953 Clark left the University Laundry for the newly built university hospital, where she spent the rest of her working years as a nurse. UNC's Employee Forum says she was the first licensed practical nurse in the campus infirmary and retired in 1979.Search the index · UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Cheek-Clark Building
6. May 6, 1969 Rebecca Clark carries voters to the polls in Howard Lee's mayoral campaign Clark worked on Howard Lee's campaign for mayor, sending her son's Greyhound bus street to street to take voters to the polls, and helped count ballots by hand on election night. Lee won the May 6, 1969 election. People: Howard N. LeeSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Howard Lee: A Historical Mayoral Election
7. April 22, 1985 Rebecca Clark shows the Town Council the neglect of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Rebecca Clark of Chapel Hill's Black community gave the Town Council a slide show of sunken graves, broken walls, trash and overturned markers on April 22, 1985. The council named a task force, which called for a phased master plan.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 20
8. January 28 – September 17, 1998 The University Laundry is renamed for housekeeping leaders Kennon Cheek and Rebecca Clark On January 28, 1998 the trustees voted to rename the 1920s University Laundry for Kennon Cheek and Rebecca Clark, who led campus housekeepers in the 1930s and 1940s. The building was rededicated on September 17, 1998. People: Rebecca Clark, Kennon CheekNames in Brick and Stone: Histories from UNC's Built Landscape: Cheek Clark Building
9. August 28, 2011 Rebecca Clark's name is added to the Peace and Justice Plaza plaque Clark, Yonni Chapman, the Rev. Charles M. Jones and Dan Pollitt were honored after their deaths for their work for civil rights, social justice and equality in Chapel Hill. Their names were added to the plaque at Peace and Justice Plaza, in front of the historic post office on Franklin Street. People: Yonni Chapman, Charles M. Jones, Daniel H. PollittSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Four activists to be honored in Chapel Hill, SHC preserves documentation of their legacy
10. February 2020 Exhibit honoring housekeeping and facilities staff opens in the renovated Cheek-Clark Building A lobby exhibit in the renovated Kennon Cheek and Rebecca Clark Building presents the lives of Cheek, Clark and groundskeeper William Hubbard with a timeline of the university's housekeeping and facilities work. People: Rebecca Clark, Kennon CheekUNC-Chapel Hill: Exhibit in renovated Cheek Clark Building honors Carolina staff