Background on Speaker Ban controversy, 1962–1968
Background reading on Speaker Ban controversy, 1962–1968. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss John E. Greenbacker Jr.. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, April 5, 1991: interview L-0064-7, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Seventh of nine Southern Oral History Program interviews with Daniel H. Pollitt, a professor at the UNC School of Law. Recorded April 5, 1991, by Ann McColl, this session of just under an hour is devoted to the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 act of the General Assembly that barred Communists and certain other speakers from state campuses, and to the fight over it at Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s, in which Pollitt took part. Published online in 2008 in Documenting the American South.
I raised my hand to volunteer: students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill : an exhibit of the Manuscripts Department in the Wilson Library
Hollingsworth, Biff · 2007
Catalog of an exhibit mounted by the Manuscripts Department of Wilson Library from January 23 to May 31, 2007, on student protest in Chapel Hill during the 1960s. Topics include civil rights demonstrations, the Speaker Ban Law, the Black Student Movement, restaurant strikes and Vietnam War protests at the university. Compiled by Biff Hollingsworth, 59 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, published by the university library.
Oral history interview with Ashley Davis, April 12, 1974: interview E-0062, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Davis, Ashley · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ashley Davis, who entered UNC in 1968 and joined the Black Student Movement, recalls the 1969 strike by the university's cafeteria workers and the BSM's decision to stand with them when the workers asked. Recorded April 12, 1974, by Russell Rymer for the Southern Oral History Program, the hour-and-a-half interview touches on Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, the Southern Student Organizing Committee and race relations among students on campus. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with William C. Friday, November 26, 1990: interview L-0145, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Friday, William C. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
In this session with William Link, recorded in November 1990, William C. Friday concentrates on the Speaker Ban Law. The 1963 law barred Communists and certain others from speaking on state campuses, and Friday, as UNC system president, spent five years working to undo it. He discusses the law's origins, the fight over academic freedom and free speech at Chapel Hill, and relations between the university and the state. About eighty minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, through Documenting the American South.
Communists on Campus
Billingsley, William J. · 1999 · University of Georgia Press
William J. Billingsley's history of the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 North Carolina statute that barred known Communists from speaking on state campuses, and the fight over it at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The subtitle sets the scope: race, politics and the public university in sixties North Carolina. It treats academic freedom, anti-communist movements and free speech in the state. University of Georgia Press, 1999, 308 pages with eight pages of plates.
Reviewed in Academe (2000), The American Historical Review (2001), The Journal of Southern History (2001), Journal of American History (2001), The Journal of Politics (2001).
Progress and protests : UNC-Chapel Hill leaders during "the Long Sixties" (1957-1972) : covering chancellors William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp, and J. Carlyle Sitterson
Roundtree, Lynn · 2024 · Lynn Roundtree
Lynn Roundtree covers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1957 and 1972 through its three chancellors, William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp and J. Carlyle Sitterson, set against the student movements of those years. Part of the Coates university leadership series, published by the author in 2024 and running to 926 pages. It is twentieth century campus history.
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Speaking freely : UNC-CH administrators respond to freedom of expression, 1963-1970
Floren, Gillian Dae · 1989
Gillian Dae Floren examined how University of North Carolina administrators at Chapel Hill answered questions of free expression between 1963 and 1970, the years of the Speaker Ban Law, the 1969 food service employees' strike and the 1970 student strike. Completed in 1989 with a bibliography on leaves 101 to 104, it reaches to the General Assembly act regulating visiting speakers at state supported colleges.
The coy mistress caper.
1966 · Time Inc
A four page article clipped from Life, volume 61, number 20, dated November 11, 1966, on a dispute over academic freedom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article concerns the instructor Michael Paull, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, Jesse Helms and Andrew Marvell's poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. Illustrated, with portraits.
Campus censorship : the North Carolina "visiting speakers" law
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 1963 · D.H. Pollitt
Daniel H. Pollitt's paper on the North Carolina visiting speakers law, the 1963 statute restricting who could speak on the state's public campuses. Prepared for distribution to the university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors and scheduled for the North Carolina Law Review of December 1963, it treats academic freedom and censorship at Chapel Hill.
Commencement address.
Knight, Douglas M., 1921-2005 · 1965
A sound recording: Douglas M. Knight's commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 7, 1965, broadcast by radio station WUNC and preserved on one analog audiocassette. Knight took as his subject the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 statute limiting who could speak on North Carolina campuses, and with it academic freedom and freedom of speech in the state.
Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Carol L. Folt records, 2013-2018
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor · 2013
Chancellor's office records from the tenure of Carol L. Folt at Chapel Hill, 2013 to 2018, 8 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40024. Topics include university administration and educational fund raising, curriculum planning, health occupations schools and medical education, and race relations and college integration in North Carolina. Holden Thorp and Christopher C. Fordham also appear.
Rebellion in black and white : southern student activism in the 1960s
Morrow, Kelly; Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- · 2013 · The Johns Hopkins University Press
Southern student activism in the 1960s, taking in civil rights organizing, Black Power in Greensboro, the Speaker Ban Law and student movements at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It also concerns student sexual freedom and sexual ethics in Chapel Hill. Kelly Morrow and Cleveland Sellers contribute; published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore in 2013.
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