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Leon Fink

1948– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineBuilding Davis Library and renewing Wilson Library, 1975–19881975–1988 · 17 events · In 1975 UNC's trustees chose the Union parking lot, the old Emerson Field, as the site of a new central library, and in 1976 the Board of Governors put $22.6 million from the sale of the campus utilities toward it. Site work began in October 1979, and the Walter Royal Davis Library opened on February 17, 1984. The trustees named the building for Walter R. Davis in 1981, and the general collection moved from Wilson Library in January and February 1984. Governor Jim Martin dedicated Davis Library in 1985, and in 1986 engineers found its east floor settling. Wilson Library, under renovation from 1984, reopened in 1987 as the home of UNC's special collections.

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  1. A teach-in at the Carolina Union marks the 20th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins On January 31, 1980, the Critical Perspectives Forum held a teach-in, Civil Rights and Violence: Greensboro Then and Now, at the Carolina Union to mark the 20th anniversary of the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and to answer the November 1979 killings at a Greensboro anti-Klan rally. Speakers included historians Allen Trelease and William Chafe, civil rights activist Anne Braden, former Klansman turned union organizer C. P. Ellis and lawyer William Kunstler. People: Leon Fink Place: Carolina Union, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Allen Trelease, William Chafe, Anne Braden, C. P. Ellis, William KunstlerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 4, 1980, p. 2
  2. Governor Jim Martin dedicates Davis Library Before about 500 people, Governor Martin dedicated the Walter Royal Davis Library and unveiled a bronze bust of Davis, the former trustees' chairman who had lobbied for its funding from the sale of the University's telephone system. Vice President George Bush had been booked for April 26 but canceled, and a faculty Books-Not-Bombs committee led by Nell Painter and Leon Fink, which had planned a silent protest against his selection, called its protest off. People: Walter Royal Davis, Christopher C. Fordham III, Leon Fink Place: Walter Royal Davis Library, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: James G. Martin, Nell PainterSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1985, p. 1

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By Leon Fink

Leon Fink collection, 1993-1996

Fink, Leon, 1948- · 1993

Fifty items gathered by Leon Fink, born 1948, between 1993 and 1996, in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20171-z. Topics include folklore and its study and teaching in the United States, the relation of folklore and history, and Fink's own place on the university faculty at Chapel Hill.

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