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Allard K. Lowenstein

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StorylineOpposing the Vietnam War in Chapel Hill, 1965–19731965–1973 · 81 events · From 1965 to 1969 opposition to the Vietnam War in Chapel Hill grew from a silent walk of about 30 Student Peace Union marchers to a Moratorium day in which thousands took part. Students held fasts, sing-outs and pickets, a silent vigil stood at the post office every Wednesday from January 1967, and Vice President Humphrey, Senators Morse, Mansfield and Kennedy and others spoke on the war. Draft counseling began in 1967, faculty members signed statements backing draft refusers, and in March 1968 fifteen people were arrested at a sit-in against a Dow Chemical recruiter. On October 15, 1969 some 3,500 to 5,000 marchers walked through downtown to a convocation where Mayor Howard Lee spoke. From 1970 a Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense tied ROTC to new courses, students and faculty lobbied Congress, and in April 1972 more than 2,000 students marched against the renewed bombing. The Franklin Street peace vigil went on into 1973, when local peace groups formed the Chapel Hill Peace Center.

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  1. Former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett speaks in Memorial Hall About 1,300 people heard former Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi speak in Memorial Hall under Carolina Forum sponsorship. The next night the Forum gave equal time to N.C. State professor Allard K. Lowenstein, who had led a Black voter registration project in Mississippi; the two had already argued briefly at the reception after Barnett's talk. People: Allard K. Lowenstein Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ross BarnettSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 30, 1964, p. 1
  2. Allard Lowenstein and a State Department officer debate the Vietnam War before a packed Hill Hall More than 850 students and professors crowded Hill Hall to hear Allard Lowenstein, a UNC graduate and critic of the war, call for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a pullback to enclaves, while Daniel I. Davidson of the State Department defended U.S. policy. The Carolina Forum sponsored the debate before a planned campus referendum on the war; the Daily Tar Heel reported a standing ovation for Lowenstein. People: Allard K. Lowenstein Place: Hill Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Daniel I. Davidson, Allard LowensteinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 4, 1967, p. 1
  3. Orange County Democrats' convention opposes the I-40 link and backs the ERA and gay rights legislation About 300 Democrats at the party's county convention in the Orange County Courthouse chose 110 delegates to the district and state conventions and passed resolutions opposing construction of the Interstate 40 link through Orange County, urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, calling for a halt to nuclear power plant construction, and supporting gun control, gay rights legislation, continued mass transit funding and repeal of the state food tax. A special resolution honored the late Allard K. Lowenstein. People: Allard K. Lowenstein Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 21, 1980, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill holds a memorial service for Allard K. Lowenstein in Memorial Hall Nearly 150 friends and colleagues gathered in Memorial Hall for Chapel Hill's official tribute to Allard K. Lowenstein, the UNC alumnus and civil rights and political activist fatally shot in his New York office in March. Nine speakers who had known him in Chapel Hill, among them Town Council member and former mayor James Wallace, Vice Chancellor Douglass Hunt and Institute of Government director John Sanders, eulogized him, and Wallace led the audience in Amazing Grace. People: Allard K. Lowenstein, Douglass Hunt Place: Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: James Wallace, John Sanders · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1980, p. 1

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The Allard K. Lowenstein papers, 1924-1985 : a guide to the collection

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection · 1985 · Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A guide to the Allard K. Lowenstein papers, 1924 to 1985, prepared by the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in 1985. The papers concern American liberalism in the twentieth century. Pages 39 to 84 carry a selected index to incoming correspondence. 84 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Lowenstein, Allard K. -- Archives -- Catalogs.

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