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David Price

David Price represented North Carolina's fourth congressional district, which includes Orange County and Chapel Hill, for more than three decades before retiring in January 2023. As a UNC student around 1961, he was president of the Baptist Student Union when campus religious groups picketed Chapel Hill's segregated theaters and restaurants.

Source: Morehead-Cain Foundation: The Catalyze podcast: David Price '61 retires from Congress (January 24, 2023)

Library of Congress name authority: Price, David Eugene ↗

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No work in the index names this person by itself yet. The works below belong to Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964, the wider story it is part of (109 works in all).

Brazen: Race, Gentrification, and the Path of My Own Life

Parrish, Theodore · 2025 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Theodore Parrish's memoir of a Black life in Chapel Hill and of gentrification in the town, subtitled race, gentrification, and the path of my own life. Published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in August 2025, 24…

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Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, November 8, 1976: interview B-0041, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Jones, Charles Miles · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

A longer Southern Oral History Program interview with Presbyterian minister Charles M. Jones (1906-1993), recorded November 8, 1976, by Joseph A. Herzenberg. Jones traces his civil rights work in Chapel Hill from the 19…

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 …

Oral history interview with Pat Cusick, June 19, 1989: interview L-0043, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Cusick, Pat · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Pat Cusick, a civil rights worker in Chapel Hill during the 1960s, was interviewed by Pamela Dean in June 1989. He explains how his schooling and military service changed his thinking about race, his frustration with ca…

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Oral history interview with Quinton E. Baker, February 23, 2002: interview K-0838, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Baker, Quinton E. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Quinton E. Baker, a Black gay man who took part in the Chapel Hill civil rights protests of the 1960s, was interviewed by Chris McGinnis in February 2002. He describes growing up under segregation with little contact wi…

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 · UNC University Library

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. The headings cover civil rights demonstrations, the Spea…

Oral history interview with Charlene Regester, February 23, 2001: interview K-0216, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Regester, Charlene B. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Charlene Regester (born 1956) recalls being one of the first Black children to attend Chapel Hill's white elementary schools, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded February 23, 2001, by Susan Upton. Her …

Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 22, 2001: interview K-0215, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

A separate interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 22, 2001, by David Potorti for the Southern Oral History Program, an hour and a quarter long. Pollitt traces his liberal convictions on race and religion to…

Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 19, 1990: interview L-0048, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Law professor Daniel H. Pollitt remembers Anne Queen (1911-2005), director of the Campus Y at UNC, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded November 19, 1990, by Cindy Cheatham. Queen's commitment to social…

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 …

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  1. Church and student groups picket Chapel Hill's Varsity Theatre Local church groups and student organizations picketed the Varsity Theatre after Black patrons were refused entry. Later that year the management agreed to adm…Search the index · Chapel Hill Historical Society: 123 E. Franklin St.

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  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat A Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South Drescher, John · 2000 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-; Governors -- North Carolina -- Election -- History -- 20th century; Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 OCPL call number: 975.6 DRE
  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction 2008 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; North Carolina -- History -- 1865- OCPL call number: NC 973.745 NOR
  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina Greene, Christina · 2005 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations; African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century OCPL call number: 323.119 GRE
  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second Anderson, Eric · 1981 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: African Americans -- North Carolina -- Politics and government; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; North Carolina -- Race relations -- Political aspects OCPL call number: NC 305.896 AND

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