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Pat Cusick

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Oral history interview with Pat Cusick, June 19, 1989: interview L-0043, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Cusick, Pat · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Pat Cusick, a civil rights worker in Chapel Hill during the 1960s, was interviewed by Pamela Dean in June 1989. He explains how his schooling and military service changed his thinking about race, his frustration with campus liberalism at UNC, and his turn to civil disobedience as a student organizer in the town. Topics include civil rights workers, college student political activity and race relations in Chapel Hill. About two and a half hours; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2008 through Documenting the American South.

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July 19, 1963 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. People: Harold Foster, Pat CusickDigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 21, 1963, p. 3
March 29, 1964 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. People: Pat CusickDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1964, p. 1
April 23 to 24, 1964 Judge Mallard sentences fasters Pat Cusick and John Dunne to a year in jail In Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough, Judge Raymond B. Mallard gave Pat Cusick a year in jail on April 23 and John Dunne twelve months on April 24 for the February street-blocking demonstrations, among a dozen active sentences and about 100 suspended ones that stripped the Chapel Hill movement of its leaders four weeks after the fast. People: Pat CusickDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 24, 1964, p. 1
April 1965 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 CusickSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Carolina Times, March 27, 1965, page 9 (John Ehle's Book, The Free Men, to Be Published by Harper and Row)

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