Background on Black workers and campus labor
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Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000: interview K-0536, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Clark, Rebecca · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Interview recorded June 21, 2000 with Rebecca Clark (1915-2009), a Black Chapel Hill resident, for the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Clark, educated in Chapel Hill's segregated schools, describes working life under segregation and the economic discrimination she met in it. Topics also include Lincoln High School, school integration, and Howard Lee, elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969. Interview K-0536 in collection #4007.
Sketch of the Life and Character of Wilson Caldwell
Battle, Kemp Plummer · 1895 · University Press Co. Print
Kemp Plummer Battle's eight-page sketch of the life and character of Wilson Caldwell (1841-1898), a Black employee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Printed in Chapel Hill by the University Press Company in 1895 with a portrait. Battle, a former president of the university, wrote it during Caldwell's lifetime.
20th anniversary of the historic UNC housekeepers' agreement.
2016 · The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Commemorative booklet from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History marking twenty years since the UNC housekeepers' agreement. Sixteen unnumbered pages with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits, published at Chapel Hill in 2016. Topics include the UNC Housekeepers Association, labor unions among housekeepers, and discrimination in employment at the university.
Rebecca Clark : the emergence of an unlikely leader in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1941-1969
Demby, Katherine Elizabeth · 2010
Katherine Elizabeth Demby traces the public life of Rebecca Clark, an African American activist in Chapel Hill who lived from 1915 to 2009, across the years 1941 to 1969. Seventy seven leaves, written in 2010. Topics include African American women political activists in Chapel Hill, twentieth century town politics and employment at the University of North Carolina.
I raised my hand to volunteer : students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill.
2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Account of student protest in 1960s Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with illustrations. It draws together the civil rights movement and segregation in the town, discrimination in restaurants, academic freedom and university autonomy, protest against the Vietnam War, Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Student Movement on campus.
Sixty years of struggle : a documented history of housekeepers at U.N.C.
1996 · UNC Housekeepers Association
Documentary history of the housekeeping staff at the University of North Carolina, put together in 1996 by the UNC Housekeepers Association from records in the University Archive, with Alan McSurely credited as compiler. Seventy-eight unnumbered pages of facsimiles reproduce correspondence, including letters of Frank Porter Graham, covering six decades of employment and pay disputes at Chapel Hill.
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The working poor : living the American nightmare : a case study of the UNC housekeeper's movement
Baumann, C. Christopher · 1993
C. Christopher Baumann's 1993 case study of the housekeepers' movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the campaign by campus housekeeping staff over pay and treatment. The subtitle calls them the working poor living the American nightmare. Topics include employee rights in Chapel Hill and poor people in North Carolina. Ninety-two pages, with a bibliography of six leaves.
The coming of consciousness : UNC food workers' strikes, 1969
Meroney, Millicent · 1986
Millicent Meroney's 1986 Duke honors paper on the 1969 strikes by food service workers at the University of North Carolina, an episode in the town's race relations and its civil rights history. Eighty leaves of typescript with a bibliography, covering labor unions in food service, the strikes and lockouts themselves, and university employees at Chapel Hill.
Office of Chancellor : Michael Hooker records, 1995-1999.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor · 1995
Chancellor Michael Hooker's records at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 42,000 items in 52.5 linear feet dated 1995 to 1999, in the University Archives at UNC, 40026. Educational technology in Chapel Hill is among the subjects, together with campus and curriculum planning, fund raising, public relations and public service, employees and race relations, and the social life of students.
Report to the chancellor on efforts to improve pay and working conditions for UNC-CH housekeepers : December 17, 1993
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1993 · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eight page report to the chancellor, dated December 17, 1993, on efforts to improve pay and working conditions for housekeepers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include housekeepers' employment and salaries in Chapel Hill and university employee pay generally. A brief administrative document on campus labor in the early 1990s.
Marsha Tinnen's Housekeepers Association collection, 1991-2003.
Tinnen, Marsha · 1991
Marsha Tinnen assembled this material on the UNC Housekeepers Association, 1991 to 2003, roughly fifty items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5712-z. Topics include housekeepers and labor unions in Chapel Hill, the living wage movement, community organization in North Carolina, university employees, and the name of Jesse Jackson.
Office of Chancellor : Paul Hardin records, 1988-1995.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor · 1988
Records from the chancellorship of Paul Hardin III at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 76,800 items in ninety six linear feet covering 1988 to 1995, in the University Archives at UNC, 40025. Topics include African American students and the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, race relations on campus, janitors and other employees, fund raising, and curriculum and campus planning.
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