Pat Cusick

Life and Orange County connections

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1. December 1962 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1962, p. 1 (Peace Union For Students Formed Here)
2. May 18, 1963 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 19, 1963, p. 1
3. by July 18, 1963 The Committee for Open Business holds workshops in nonviolent civil disobedience The Committee for Open Business ran a series of workshops in nonviolent civil disobedience in July 1963, and Pat Cusick reported good attendance and morale at the sixth session on July 18, the day before the Merchants Bureau sit-in. An NAACP field worker from North Carolina College, who came at the committee's request, helped organize the workshops and trained members in nonviolent methods until he left on August 9. People: Pat CusickThe Chapel Hill Conscience, July 31, 1963, p. 5
4. 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
5. August 8, 1963 Pat Cusick is ordered out of his rented house after hosting a Black NAACP field worker According to the Conscience, Committee for Open Business leader Pat Cusick was told before Chapel Hill's justice of the peace to leave his house by August 12, after he let a Black NAACP field worker working with the committee stay there for two days. The landlord, the university's superintendent of buildings and grounds, cited overdue rent and a mess, while the Conscience said the reason was the guest's race. People: Pat CusickThe Chapel Hill Conscience, August 24, 1963, p. 1
6. August 23, 1963 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 25, 1963, p. 3 (CURED Marches On West Franklin)
7. August 1963 Chapel Hill fills a bus for the March on Washington The Student Peace Union, with Pat Cusick as local coordinator, organized a bus from Chapel Hill to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In late August Cusick reported every seat taken, with the bus due to leave about midnight August 27-28 and reach Washington the next morning.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, August 22, 1963, p. 7 (CH Marchers Going To DC)
8. December 12, 1963 Orange Superior Court convicts Pat Cusick and three others for the Merchants Association sit-in A jury in Orange Superior Court at Hillsborough convicted Pat Cusick, Hope Van Riper, Charliese Pearl Cotton and Christine Glover of trespass for the July sit-in at the Merchants Association office. Cusick chose 30 days on the roads over paying the fine and fasted 17 days in protest at being placed in a segregated prison camp. People: Floyd B. McKissickSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 15, 1963, p. 1
9. 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 Cusick, John DunneDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1964, p. 1
10. 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 Cusick, John DunneDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 24, 1964, p. 1
11. 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 Cusick, John Dunne, Quinton BakerSearch 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)