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Eunice H. Milton

Eunice H. Milton signed as president of the campus YWCA when UNC student leaders asked Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson on 14 March 1966 to let Herbert Aptheker and Frank Wilkinson speak at Chapel Hill. She signed with the student body president and the heads of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, Di-Phi, the Carolina Political Union and SDS.

Source: UNC Libraries: Letter, Students to Chancellor J.C. Sitterson, 14 March 1966

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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

This is the seventh interview in a nine-part series of interviews with civil liberties lawyer Daniel H. Pollitt. In this interview, Pollitt focuses on the Speaker Ban controversy as it unfolded on the campus of the Univ…

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

William C. Friday served as the president of the University of North Carolina system from 1957 to 1986. This interview is part of a longer, multi-part interview conducted with Friday in 1990. Here, Friday focuses primar…

Speaking freely : UNC-CH administrators respond to freedom of expression, 1963-1970

Floren, Gillian Dae · 1989

UNC

Commencement address.

Knight, Douglas M., 1921-2005 · 1965

UNC
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Newspaper clippings (1965-1966) on the tenure of Paul Dickson as UNC student body president

2011

UNC

Snipes, Mac and William Friday, Ferebee Taylor, James Wallace: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1986

1 photograph in the Society's People P-Z binder: "Party honoring Mac Snipes on his 80th birthday".

Frank Wilkinson and several unidentified people walking down a street in Chapel Hill, March 2, 1966

News and observer (Raleigh, N.C.) · 1966

Frank Wilkinson and several unidentified people walking down a street in Chapel Hill.

Frank Wilkinson in Chapel Hill, March 2, 1966

News and observer (Raleigh, N.C.) · 1966

Frank Wilkinson speaking with unidentified man during his visit to Chapel Hill to address students from off campus.

Frank Wilkinson speaking to Chapel Hill Police officer, March 2, 1966

News and observer (Raleigh, N.C.) · 1966

Frank Wilkinson speaking to Chapel Hill Police officer.

Frank Wilkinson speaking to students in Chapel Hill, March 2, 1966

News and observer (Raleigh, N.C.) · 1966

Frank Wilkinson speaking to students in Chapel Hill from the non-campus side of a wall on Franklin Street.

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  1. Eunice Milton is listed among the members of the Order of Valkyries When the Order of Valkyries, described by the Daily Tar Heel as the highest women's honorary organization on campus, tapped new members in November 1965, Eunic…Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1965, page 1
  2. Eunice Milton serves as president of the campus YWCA The Daily Tar Heel called Milton the YWCA president when it reported the filing of the Speaker Ban suit on April 1, 1966, and the former YWCA president when it…Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 1, 1966, page 1
  3. Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules The day after the full board of trustees adopted speaker regulations on February 28, Paul Dickson and leaders of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Da… People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart MatthewsSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1966, page 1
  4. Student leaders ask the chancellor to let Wilkinson and Aptheker speak on campus Paul Dickson and the heads of Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, Di-Phi, the Carolina Political Union and SDS wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson asking … People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart MatthewsUNC Libraries: Letter, Students to Chancellor J.C. Sitterson, 14 March 1966
  5. Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban Minutes after Sitterson refused the students' request, Paul Dickson and eleven other student leaders, joined by Wilkinson and Aptheker as plaintiffs, sued Sitt… People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker, William C. Friday, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart MatthewsUNC Carolina Story: One Final Effort

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