The Perry surname

In the chronology 19 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Perry, Arnold 2 entries, 1965–1966
  • by March 30, 1965: Arnold Perry steps down as dean of the UNC School of Education
  • March 1, 1966: Acting Chancellor Sitterson names the faculty members of the new speakers advisory committee
• Perry, Barbara 1 entry, 1987
  • June 24, 1987: UNC trustees' chairman names a 13-member joint committee on apartheid and divestment
• Perry, Barbara S. 2 entries, 1985–1989
  • August 23, 1985: UNC trustees elect J. Clint Newton chairman
  • by July 20, 1989: Governor James Martin leaves Barbara Perry off the UNC trustees, leaving one woman on the board
• Perry, Ben 1 entry, 1963
  • May 7, 1963: Chapel Hill school board voters elect Edwin Tenney Jr. and Ben Perry
• Perry, Bud 1 entry, 1917
  • Early 1917: Bud Perry and Moody Lloyd open the Carolina Barbershop in new quarters
• Perry, David R. 1 entry, 1928
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• Perry, Douglas 2 entries, 1960–2020
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• Perry, Howe 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
• Perry, Howe B. 1 entry, 1963
  • by July 4, 1963: A Black citizens' committee asks the Hillsboro town board for a public accommodations law
• Perry, Kenneth 20 entries, 1969–1989
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  • 1969–1991: Counting Black students at UNC, 1969–1991
  • 1981–1992: Racial incidents and race relations at UNC, 1981–1992
  • 1982–1994: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, B-GLAD and student-fee funding, 1982–1994
  • 1984–1989: Founding the Black Cultural Center, 1984–1989
  • October 13, 1987: About 75 people hold a candlelight vigil against apartheid at the Franklin Street post office
  • October 29, 1987: The BSM rallies against discrimination in the UNC Police Department
  • October 2, 1987: Students rally and sit in at the University police station against racism in the campus police
  • 1987–1994: Discrimination grievances in the UNC police, 1987–1994
  • by March 18, 1988: UNC spends $25,000 furnishing the Black Cultural Center and interviews for its director
  • November 30, 1988: Black Student Movement votes not to seek interim space for the Black Cultural Center
  • February 24, 1988: The BSM rallies about 125 students in the Pit to revive Black student activism
  • March 1, 1988: The BSM presses UNC on low graduation rates for Black students
  • October 5, 1988: The BSM sets deadlines for a permanent Black Cultural Center
  • September 8, 1988: The search committee for a new student counseling head agrees to meet the Black Student Movement
  • March 23, 1988: Dean Gillian Cell drops her plan to restructure the Office for Student Counseling
  • January 30, 1988: Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association marches from South Building to the post office
  • March 30, 1988: Trustees chairman Robert Eubanks meets the Black Student Movement on its concerns
  • 1988–1990: The Office for Student Counseling and Dean Cell’s reappointment, 1988–1990
  • April 14, 1988: Student leaders discuss racism on campus at a forum in the Pit
  • by March 1989: Rosalind Fuse-Hall is named associate dean for the Office for Student Counseling
• Perry, Kenny 2 entries, 1982–1987
  • 1982–1994: The South Africa divestment campaign at UNC and Chapel Hill's sanctions, 1982–1994
  • April 3, 1987: The Black Student Movement holds an anti-apartheid rally and march to South Building
• Perry, Marcus 3 entries, 1988–1990
  • April 13, 1988: University police remove a CIA Action Committee protest from Lenoir Hall
  • October 31, 1990: UNC police name Sgt. Marcus Perry crime prevention officer as Officer Keith Edwards plans a grievance
  • by September 26, 1990: UNC reopens its police crime prevention post to all employees after interviewing Keith Edwards
• Perry, Nellie 1 entry, 1918
  • May 31, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross sends literature to women in outlying communities to start Red Cross work
• Perry, O. Gordon 1 entry, 1961
  • October 2, 1961: University National Bank of Chapel Hill becomes part of Central Carolina Bank
• Perry, Roger 2 entries, 1988–1994
  • by September 15, 1988: Developers withdraw plans for the University Village theater complex on N.C. 54
  • October 5, 1994: Chapel Hill Town Council hears the revised Meadowmont plan at a public hearing
• Perry, Russell 3 entries, 1968–1980
  • 1968–1990: Droughts, the Durham lines and Hillsborough water, 1968–1990
  • by September 1, 1977: UNC names campus water conservation officers at OWASA's request
  • April 22, 1980: Old West residents stage a water-pistol takeover of Student Government to press for dorm repairs
• Perry, W. D. 2 entries, 1942–1945
  • June 30, 1942: Chapel Hill registers 577 men aged 18 to 20 for the draft
  • April 10, 1945: Chapel Hill High holds its first Career Day
• Perry, Wiley 1 entry, 1962
  • 1962: Orange Grove residents put up a sign naming the community
• Perry, William D. 1 entry, 1973
  • July 23, 1973: William D. Perry gives Chapel Hill a park in memory of his wife

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Perry, David R. (David Robert), 1942- 1 work
• Perry, Nellie Cotton, 1904-1979 1 work

In the historical records 98 records

27 deeds, 8 records of enslaved people, 46 marriages, 11 court minutes and 6 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Perry marriages in full · Search the name in every collection