To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest University
Kapur, Geeta · 2021
Geeta Kapur's history of race at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from the enslaved labor that built the campus through desegregation and the Black student protests that followed. Twelve chapters, with a foreword by William Barber II, move from the founding era and the Great Depression controversies to the state's response to integration and the turmoil of later decades; North Carolina Central University also figures. Published 2021 by Blair in Durham.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 15, 1991: interview L-0064-4, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Race, sports and student protest at UNC are the subjects of this fourth interview with law professor Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 15, 1991, by Ann McColl for the Southern Oral History Program. Pollitt discusses the integration of Carolina athletics, including basketball player Charlie Scott, the university's first Black scholarship athlete, the discrimination Black athletes met, student activism from the late 1950s through the 1960s, and the Campus Y. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Floyd B. McKissick, Sr., May 31, 1989: interview L-0040, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
McKissick, Floyd B. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Floyd B. McKissick, Sr. (1922-1991), later head of the Congress of Racial Equality, recalls his early life in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded May 31, 1989, by Bruce Kalk. McKissick recalls the racism he met growing up and while serving in the Army during World War II. The interview then turns to his law studies and his part in integrating UNC as one of the first Black students admitted to its law school. Published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South.
The Politics of Desegregation: A Case Study of Desegregation and Municipal Decision-Making in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Blanchard, Gary F. · 1964
Gary F. Blanchard's 1964 case study of desegregation and municipal decision-making in Chapel Hill, 106 pages plus 29 unnumbered leaves. Taking in race relations, segregation and college integration in Chapel Hill, it examines how the town's government handled desegregation in the years when civil rights protests were pressing Chapel Hill's businesses and public places.
An Historical Study of the Administrative Actions in the Racial Desegregation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1930-1955
Cheek, Neal · 1973
Neal Cheek's 1973 study of how the administration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill handled racial desegregation between 1930 and 1955, the years leading up to and through the admission of the first Black students. It also treats the law school at North Carolina College at Durham, which the state opened as a separate law school for Black students. 227 leaves with a bibliographic essay.
Challenging Jim Crow : desegregation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
McMillan, Hannah · 2013
Hannah McMillan's account of desegregation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in 2013 as a chapter running from page 112 to page 131. Topics include African American students at Chapel Hill, college integration in North Carolina and the history of the university, placing the piece within the record of Black students entering the campus.
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Oral history interview with Bob Scott, April 4, 1990 interview L-0193, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Scott, Robert Walter · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Robert W. Scott (1929-2009), North Carolina's governor between 1969 and 1973 and son of Governor Kerr Scott, interviewed by William Link on April 4, 1990 for the Southern Oral History Program. Scott discusses his student years at North Carolina State College in the early 1950s and his dealings with university president William Friday, including the food workers' strike at Chapel Hill, college integration, and the consolidation of the state's universities into the UNC System during his term. One hour thirty-seven minutes. Electronic edition 2007.
Oral history interview with Harvey E. Beech, September 25, 1996 interview J-0075, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Beech, Harvey E. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Harvey E. Beech (born 1923), one of the first African American students at the UNC School of Law, interviewed by Anita Foye on September 25, 1996 for the Southern Oral History Program. He describes growing up in Kinston, youngest of five children of a barber who never learned to read but built a chain of shops that put his children through college, then his legal education at Chapel Hill and career as a lawyer and civil rights advocate. One hour thirty-four minutes. Electronic edition 2007.
Oral history interview with Joseph Califano, April 5, 1991
Califano, Joseph A. · 2007
An interview from April 5, 1991, published in 2007, with Joseph A. Califano, Jr., who led the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The conversation covers college integration in North Carolina, federal and state controversies over it, and the dispute between the Office for Civil Rights and the university system that William Friday directed from Chapel Hill.
Oral history interview with Julius L. Chambers, June 18, 1990
Chambers, Julius L. · 2007
Julius L. Chambers, the attorney and later university administrator, interviewed on June 18, 1990 and published in 2007. Topics include college integration in North Carolina, affirmative action in education, the work of college trustees and litigation involving the University of North Carolina system, matters that ran through William Friday's Chapel Hill offices.
Sex discrimination & the presence of covering in Kenan-Flagler undergraduates
Sulzer, Sandra Hannah · 2006
Sandra Hannah Sulzer's 2006 study of sex discrimination and of covering among undergraduates at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the business school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include sex discrimination in higher education at Chapel Hill and the school's students. The bibliography runs on leaves 73 to 76.
The use of student personnel services by black students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hopkins, Peggy Richmond · 1973
Peggy Richmond Hopkins studied how African American students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used the university's student personnel services, writing in 1973 with a bibliography at the back. One hundred nine leaves. Topics include higher education, educational counseling and the university's Division of Student Affairs.
