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J. Carlyle Sitterson

J. Carlyle Sitterson taught history at UNC in Chapel Hill from 1935, became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences in 1955 and led the campus as chancellor from 1966, through desegregation efforts, protests against the Vietnam War and campus unrest. Born in Kinston in 1911, he retired as a Kenan Professor of History in 1981 and died in 1995.

Source: UNC Libraries: J. Carlyle Sitterson Papers, 1930s-1999s

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1911–1995 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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J. Carlyle Sitterson, newspaper photograph, 1961
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Black student activism at UNCFrom 1967 · 281 events · Black students founded the Black Student Movement at UNC in November 1967. It presented 23 demands to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson in December 1968, backed the cafeteria workers' strike of 1969, and in the 1990s pressed for a freestanding Black cultural center, which opened as the Sonja Haynes Stone Center in 2004.

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  1. J. Carlyle Sitterson becomes dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at UNC Sitterson, who had begun teaching history at UNC in 1935 while completing his doctorate, became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences in 1955. He was appointed vice-chancellor in 1965.Search the index · UNC Libraries: J. Carlyle Sitterson Papers, 1930s-1999s
  2. John E. Greenbacker Jr. leads the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary society The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Greenbacker as president of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society, one of the recognized student organizations whose officers brought the Speaker Ban suit. The Daily Tar Heel likewise named him as Di-Phi president among the ten student leaders who wrote to Chancellor Sitterson on March 1, 1966. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · Justia: Dickson v. Sitterson, 280 F. Supp. 486 (M.D.N.C. 1968)
  3. J. Carlyle Sitterson serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill Sitterson was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16, 1966 to January 31, 1972. His records as chancellor cover desegregation and the federal HEW lawsuit, the Speaker Ban law, protest against the Vietnam War and campus unrest.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Joseph Carlyle Sitterson Records, 1966-1972
  4. Stuart Matthews and Gary Waller write to Chancellor Sitterson inviting Herbert Aptheker On the day the full board of trustees adopted new speaker regulations, Matthews and Waller wrote to Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson for the UNC Chapel Hill chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, asking that Herbert Aptheker be allowed to speak on campus about the war in Vietnam on March 9. The letter set out his publications, speaking engagements and his Supreme Court passport case. People: Gary Waller, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Herbert ApthekerSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Letter, Stuart Matthews and Gary Waller to Chancellor J.C. Sitterson, 28 February 1966
  5. The UNC Board of Trustees adopts visiting-speaker procedures under the amended Speaker Ban Acting under G.S. 116-199 and 116-200, the full Board of Trustees adopted procedures requiring recognized student groups to clear invitations to covered speakers with the chancellor. The students complied with them when they renewed the Wilkinson and Aptheker invitations, and the court later found the procedures as vague as the statute. People: William C. Friday, J. Carlyle SittersonCaselaw Access Project: Dickson v. Sitterson, 280 F. Supp. 486 (M.D.N.C. 1968), finding of fact 27
  6. 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 Daily Tar Heel, the Di-Phi, Students for a Democratic Society and the Carolina Political Union formally told Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson that Wilkinson was invited for March 2 and Aptheker for March 9. Wilkinson spoke to the Duke Bar Association in Durham that day. 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 · The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1966, p. 1
  7. Barred from Carroll Hall, Frank Wilkinson speaks to about 350 people at the Hillel House That evening campus security officer Arthur Beaumont, acting on the chancellor's orders, kept Wilkinson, Paul Dickson and about 200 students out of Carroll Hall, and the group moved to the Hillel House on Cameron Avenue, where almost 350 people heard Wilkinson speak on HUAC. He told them a test case with several plaintiffs would be prepared at once. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson IIISearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1966, p. 1
  8. Barred from campus by the Speaker Ban, Frank Wilkinson addressed UNC students from the Chapel Hill side of the wall After Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson refused him campus speaking privileges, Frank Wilkinson spoke for about 10 minutes from the Franklin Street sidewalk while about 1,200 students and faculty stood across the low stone wall on McCorkle Place. Student body president Paul Dickson introduced him and predicted a court case. People: Frank Wilkinson, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson IIIThe Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1966, p. 1
  9. 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 that Wilkinson speak on March 23 and Aptheker on March 25, or on later dates. 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
  10. 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 Sitterson, President William C. Friday and the trustees in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Attorney McNeill Smith took the case without fee. 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 Matthews, Frank WilkinsonUNC Carolina Story: One Final Effort
  11. Chancellor Sitterson makes student leaders erase a taped meeting The Daily Tar Heel reported that Paul Dickson, Eric Van Loon and George Nicholson met Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson in his office for about thirty minutes, and that Van Loon carried a tape recorder. When Sitterson found the conversation was being recorded he made them play the tape back and erase it, saying it upset him that they had not mentioned it. People: Paul Dickson III, George E. Nicholson III, J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1966, p. 1
  12. Powell takes office as UNC student body president Bob Powell took the oath of office as student body president from Bill Robinson, chairman of the Men's Honor Council, at the Student Legislature session of April 14, 1966, and gave his inaugural address to its 41st Assembly. He succeeded Paul Dickson. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1966, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 14, 1966, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1966, p. 1
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  1. About a thousand students march to Lenoir Hall to demand dormitory visitation Men students wanted a standing policy for entertaining women in their rooms. While a twelve-member committee with six students met in Lenoir Hall, marchers delivered a petition of about 4,000 signatures. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 26
  2. A federal court struck down the Speaker Ban law in Dickson v. Sitterson A three-judge federal court in Greensboro ruled North Carolina's Speaker Ban law unconstitutional because it was too vague. The suit had been filed in March 1966 by UNC student leaders and the two barred speakers, Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker, and UNC's leaders hoped the ruling ended the long controversy. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, Frank Wilkinson, Herbert ApthekerThe Daily Tar Heel, February 20, 1968, p. 1
  3. The UNC trustees adopt six temporary speaker rules in place of the voided regulations A week after the ruling the trustees approved, over Senator Tom White's plea to proceed calmly, six interim rules on the manner of a speaker's appearance (a senior faculty member presiding at the chancellor's request, public forums, balanced views, audience questions, sponsorship by recognized student groups), with the items the court had struck removed, pending further study by the executive committee on March 8. People: William C. Friday, J. Carlyle SittersonThe Daily Tar Heel, February 27, 1968, p. 1
  4. Chancellor Sitterson rejects self-limiting hours for women students Sitterson turned down the Women's Residence Council plan to free older women from dormitory closing hours, even though a student affairs board had approved a version of it. By late March he had named a nine-member joint committee to study the question.Search the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 25 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1968, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill holds a memorial march and two services for Martin Luther King Jr. About 600 people, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and President William C. Friday among them, marched from Y Court to First Baptist Church on Roberson Street, where some 600 townspeople had gathered for a community service. The next day about 2,000 students and faculty attended a second service in Memorial Hall, with 11 o'clock classes called off. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday, C. Hugh HolmanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1968, p. 1
  6. Black Student Movement calls on Black students and university workers to stay away in mourning for King The Black Student Movement handed sheets to Black university employees asking them to stay home on April 9 in mourning for Martin Luther King Jr., saying the university had done too little to honor him. Chancellor Sitterson let non-academic employees who wished it take a half day off. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Preston DobbinsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1968, p. 1
  7. Drought drops University Lake to a sixth of its normal level and forces water rationing With the lake nearly empty, the university spent about $100,000 on a pipe connecting Chapel Hill to Durham's water system and bought Durham water. Lawn watering and car washing were banned under penalty of fine, and there was concern that classes would be suspended before levels recovered by the end of 1969. People: J. Carlyle SittersonCarolina Story, Virtual Museum of University History (UNC): Droughts, 1960s-1970s
  8. Junior and senior women win self-limiting hours with their parents' consent Chancellor Sitterson announced that junior and senior women could set their own hours with their parents' permission, a policy recommended by a joint committee and approved by President William Friday. Women's Residence Council chair Libby Idol said it went further than she expected because it took in juniors. A dispute over keeping the sign-out cards was settled by March 1969, when the choice was left to parents, and by 1972 almost no women were under closing hours. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. FridaySearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 26 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1968, p. 1
  9. The BSM presents 23 demands to the chancellor's office BSM chairman Preston Dobbins and other students delivered a five-page list of 23 demands for Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson to his assistant Claiborne Jones, charging that UNC denied equal opportunity to Black people. They asked for special admissions for Black students, an African and Afro-American Studies department, a dean of Black students, Black members on the admissions board, BSM funding and better treatment of nonacademic workers. People: Preston Dobbins, J. Carlyle SittersonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 1
  10. Forty Black students go to South Building to press the chancellor on their demands Forty Black students went into South Building and for 30 minutes asked to hear from Chancellor Sitterson about the BSM's 23 demands. His assistant met them instead, and chairman Preston Dobbins said the students would show the chancellor the demands were urgent. People: Preston Dobbins, J. Carlyle SittersonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 8
  11. Chancellor Sitterson answers the BSM's demands in a 19-page statement A week ahead of his own deadline, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson replied to the 23 demands, saying the university could not give unique treatment to any race and that most of the issues were already being studied or addressed. Several state papers praised the reply, and the BSM, graduate students and the Daily Tar Heel criticized it. People: J. Carlyle SittersonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 8
  12. Chancellor Sitterson declares the BSM an officially recognized organization Two days before the BSM's deadline, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson issued a statement that the Black Student Movement was an officially recognized organization. Four days later the food workers' walkout began, and within two years the BSM was receiving student-fee funding. People: J. Carlyle SittersonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 8
  13. UNC food workers' strike On February 23, 1969 food service workers at UNC's Lenoir Hall left their counters and sat down at the cafeteria tables, and by the next morning nearly 100 dining hall employees had refused to report for work. The strike ended on March 21 when the University agreed to raise the hourly minimum from $1.60 to $1.80, pay roughly $180,000 in back wages, and appoint a Black supervisor. People: Mary Smith, Elizabeth Brooks, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Robert W. Scott, Julius L. Chambers, Preston DobbinsUNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer
  14. Governor Scott orders Lenoir Hall reopened under Highway Patrol guard After Chancellor Sitterson closed Lenoir Hall on March 5 during the foodworkers' strike, Governor Bob Scott ordered it reopened, sent at least 50 state patrolmen to Chapel Hill and mobilized a National Guard unit in Durham. The dining hall opened the next morning with more than 40 riot-equipped troopers and about 25 Chapel Hill police at its entrances while as many as 300 people picketed. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 7, 1969, p. 1
  15. State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders About 75 state troopers ringed Manning Hall, the striking food workers' headquarters, on the afternoon of March 13 after Governor Bob Scott ordered it vacated. Students left before police arrived, and a crowd of up to 1,000 then rallied on the steps of South Building. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1969, p. 1
  16. UNC foodworkers strike a second time About 250 of UNC's 275 cafeteria workers, organized as the UNC Non-Academic Employees Union, struck SAGA Food Services on November 7, 1969 over pay, job reclassification, and the firing of workers for union activity. They voted on November 21 to affiliate with AFSCME, and the strike was settled in December after Ralph Abernathy visited the strikers and Black students from across the state threatened to converge on the campus. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Mary Smith, Elizabeth BrooksUNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer
  17. Two union officials and a striking worker are arrested at Lenoir Hall; Chancellor Sitterson pledges to subsidize workers SAGA does not rehire On the strike's 24th day two union officials and a striking worker were arrested at Lenoir Dining Hall in the morning. Later that day Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson said the University would subsidize any workers SAGA did not rehire, after efforts to revive negotiations had stalled on the rehiring question. People: J. Carlyle SittersonThe Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  18. Ralph David Abernathy joins the striking cafeteria workers in Chapel Hill SCLC president Ralph David Abernathy picketed with the striking SAGA workers behind Lenoir Hall, then told strikers, students and faculty gathered in the Carolina Union that he pledged them his support. He went on to South Building for a meeting with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and Mayor Howard Lee. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Howard N. LeeBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1969, p. 1
  19. Chancellor Sitterson puts UNC's Black enrollment at 321 students Answering an alumnus's charge about the number of Black students, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson reported 321 Black students out of more than 16,000, including 166 undergraduates and 95 graduate students. Black Ink figured the share at about 2 percent in a state whose people were about 30 percent Black. People: J. Carlyle SittersonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1969, p. 2
  20. The university requires all entering freshmen, men and women, to live on campus for two years A committee answered women's requests to live off campus by applying one residence rule to both sexes: two years on campus for entering freshmen and one for transfer students. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson's administration announced it on February 5, 1970, for students entering that fall, and let junior women who were not transfers live off campus. Before this men had to live on campus only as freshmen. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 27 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1970, p. 1
  21. UNC student strike of 1970 After the Kent State shootings and the invasion of Cambodia, UNC students began a class boycott on May 5, 1970, and more than 4,000 people marched through downtown Chapel Hill the next day. Classes were not cancelled; the faculty instead voted to let striking students take grades on work completed or finish courses later. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Tom BelloThe Daily Tar Heel, May 7, 1970, p. 1
  22. Students sit in at South Building and hand Chancellor Sitterson a petition of 800 names confessing to the disruption policy Seventy-five to 100 students occupied the South Building lobby for over an hour to protest the trustees' disruption policy and its use against three students charged after the December cafeteria strike. Three were admitted to Chancellor Sitterson's office with a petition of 800 UNC students indicting themselves for violating the policy during the strike's first days; Sitterson said the matter lay with President Friday. Bello and the strike steering committee condemned the sit-in. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday, Tom BelloThe Daily Tar Heel, May 12, 1970, p. 1 (OCR text)
  23. Tom Bello asks students to nominate candidates for chancellor With Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson returning to teaching, student body president Tom Bello issued an open letter asking students to send names to the Advisory Committee on the Chancellorship, chaired by state Rep. Ike F. Andrews, by November 1. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1970, p. 1 (Bello Urges Ideas For New Chancellor)
  24. Chancellor Sitterson tells Tom Bello the university will control student activity fees A dispute over student activity fees began when Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson told student body president Tom Bello that the university would keep control of spending all student activity fees. In March Student Government took a 90-page report to the trustees' executive committee asking it to confirm Student Government's authority over the fees. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 16, 1971, p. 1
  25. Sitterson Hall, the new computer science building, is dedicated on University Day The Department of Computer Science moved into its new building over the summer of 1987, and the formal dedication of Sitterson Hall, named for former chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, was held on University Day with Sitterson present and former governor Hunt giving the main address.Search the index · UNC Department of Computer Science: UNC-CH CS History: Buildings

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Oral history interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson, November 4 and 6, 1987 interview L-0030, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Sitterson, J. Carlyle · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Southern Oral History Program interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson (1911-1995), chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1966, recorded by Pamela Dean on November 4 and 6, 1987, and running an hour and a half. Sitterson recalls the university in the 1960s: student demands over visitation rules, dress codes and privacy, the student movement, and the integration of the faculty. Interview L-0030 in collection #4007, published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South's Oral Histories of the American South.

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle -- 1911-1995.

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

UNC

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

UNC

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services · 1976

Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

UNC

Talk by J.C. Sitterson, 1974 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1974

Historian J. C. Sitterson, a former UNC chancellor, gave this 1974 address to the Chapel Hill Historical Society on the industrial development of North Carolina. Cassette in the Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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A sincere tribute to Lyle and Nancy.

1971 · University of North Carolina General Alumni Association, Orange County Chapter

Printed tribute to Chancellor Joseph Carlyle Sitterson and Nancy Howard Sitterson, presented by the Orange County Chapter of the General Alumni Association at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill on the evening of November 22, 1971. James L. Godfrey wrote the tribute text, which is reproduced here with portraits on a single folded sheet of four unnumbered pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

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Newspaper clippings relating to opposition to the Vietnam War in North Carolina : September, 1969 - June, 1970

1970

Newspaper clippings on opposition to the Vietnam War in North Carolina, covering September 1969 through June 1970, in UNC's North Carolina Collection. The articles come from papers across the state, among them the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and topics include student movements, student protesters and the university's chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

UNC

"Carmichael Gymnasium and Auditorium"

Morton, Hugh M. · 1966

A ceremony, possibly a graduation, in Carmichael Gymnasium and Auditorium at UNC-Chapel Hill, photographed by Hugh Morton between 1966 and 1972 on color sheet film. UNC President William Friday and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson are seated in the rows behind the speaker.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

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The installation of Chancellor Joseph Carlyle Sitterson on University Day : commemorating the one hundred seventy-third anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1966 · University of North Carolina

Program for the installation of Joseph Carlyle Sitterson as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Memorial Hall on October 12, 1966, the one hundred seventy-third anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East. Three unnumbered pages, 32 cm. Sitterson lived from 1911 to 1995.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

UNC

Office of Chancellor : Joseph Carlyle Sitterson records, 1966-1972.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor · 1966

Chancellor's office files from the years J. Carlyle Sitterson led the Chapel Hill campus, 1966 to 1972, about 39,600 items in 49.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40022. Subjects include the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law, college integration, race relations, and protest against the Vietnam War in Chapel Hill, which were the pressures on the office during those years.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

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The university and the east : address ... on the occasion of "Carlyle Sitterson Day" in Kinston, N.C. : June 16, 1966

Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995 · 1966 · News Bureau, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Address by J. Carlyle Sitterson on the university and eastern North Carolina, given at Kinston on June 16, 1966, the day the town marked as Carlyle Sitterson Day. Printed in Chapel Hill by the news bureau of the University of North Carolina, it concerns education in the eastern section of the state.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995.

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