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Lucy Straley, a longtime member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, took part in the anti-Vietnam War vigil in front of the Chapel Hill post office, which the town's plaque calls the nation's longest, and protested US intervention abroad until her death. Chapel Hill named her at Peace and Justice Plaza in 2009.
Orange County Indexed has not yet linked an indexed work directly to Lucy Straley. The biography and the dated events on this page provide sources about Lucy Straley’s life and work.
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People named in the same dated entries as Lucy Straley, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
Background reading on Binkley Baptist and the Community Church of Chapel Hill. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Lucy Straley. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Norman Gustaveson's papers cover 1948 to 2010 and belong to the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5500. The papers document his work as a university employee and Chapel Hill activist, including the Speaker Ban Law and academic freedom in North Carolina, the Campus Y, student political activity, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, and the Triangle Land Conservancy.
Thirty seven linear feet of papers from Robert E. Seymour (1925-2020), approximately 14,700 items dated 1941 to 2017, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 04554. Seymour was a Baptist clergyman in North Carolina. The papers concern Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill along with congregations in Mars Hill and Warrenton. Race relations and community life in the state are also subjects.
Joseph W. Straley, born 1914, taught at the University of North Carolina, and his papers, about 600 items in a linear foot and a half spanning 1936 to 2002, are in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5252. Diaries and other primary material cover academic freedom and the Speaker Ban Law, civil rights work and segregation, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, Charles Miles Jones and Howard Lee.
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