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Mary Smith worked in the Pine Room at UNC's Lenoir Dining Hall and, with her cousin Elizabeth Brooks, led the campus foodworkers' strike that began on February 23, 1969. She and Brooks met Governor Robert W. Scott on March 20, 1969, a meeting that helped lead to the strike settlement announced the next afternoon.
Source: UNC Libraries, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer: Mary Smith and Elizabeth Brooks
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Documentary running twenty-six minutes on the 1969 food service workers' strike at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told through the women who carried it, among them Elizabeth Brooks and Mary Smith. Wages, discrimination in employment and the Black Student Movement on campus are among its subjects. Released in 1990 in color with black and white segments.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Smith, Mary.
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