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Dickson v. Sitterson, 1968

The federal case that struck down the Speaker Ban, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.

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Places represented Chapel Hill · North Carolina

Related subjects Schools & Education Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 UNC & Campus Life Women's Lives & History

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Places

Caldwell (N.C.) (2)

Calvander (N.C.) (2 works · 2 headings)

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Calvander (N.C.) (1)

Calvander (N.C.) -- Biography (1)

Cane Creek (Orange County, N.C.) -- Environmental conditions (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) (668 works · 57 headings)

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Carrboro (N.C.) (452)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Aerial views (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Appropriations and expenditures -- Periodicals (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Atlases (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Biography (10)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Buildings, Structures, Etc (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Buildings, Structures, Etc. -- Conservation and Restoration (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Charities (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Church history (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Churches (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Civilization (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Description and travel (6)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Description and travel -- Periodicals (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Directories (21)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic conditions (9)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- Statistics -- Periodicals (3)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Economic policy -- Periodicals (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Emigration and immigration (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Environmental conditions (6)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Fiction (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Guidebooks (7)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Historical geography -- Maps (6)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- History (23)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Juvenile fiction (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Maps (101)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Name (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Newspapers (4)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Officials and employees -- Directories (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Officials and employees -- Job descriptions (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Officials and employees -- Salaries, etc (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Periodicals (10)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Photographs (3)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Pictorial works (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Poetry (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Politics and government (10)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Periodicals (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Population (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Population -- Statistics (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Periodicals (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Registers (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social conditions (5)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century (1)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social life and customs (8)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works (2)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Statistics (6)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Statistics -- Periodicals (4)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Telephone directories (3)

Carrboro (N.C.) -- Tours (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) (61 works · 10 headings)

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Caswell County (N.C.) (47)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Church history (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Description and travel (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Genealogy (4)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- History (3)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- History -- 19th century (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Maps (1)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Photographs (2)

Caswell County (N.C.) -- Telephone directories (1)

Cedar Grove (N.C.) (13 works · 3 headings)

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Cedar Grove (N.C.) (9)

Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Church History (3)

Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Telephone Directories (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) (4766 works · 124 headings)

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Chapel Hill (N.C.) (3670)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- 19th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- 19th century -- History (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Anecdotes (8)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Anniversaries, etc (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Antiquities (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Appropriations and expenditures (10)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Appropriations and expenditures -- Periodicals (7)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Atlases (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Auditing (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Auditing -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Bibliography (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Biography (56)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Boundaries -- Maps (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc (8)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc -- History (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Calendars (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Centennial celebrations, etc (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Charities (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Charters (6)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Church history (86)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Church history -- 19th century (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Church history -- Periodicals (8)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Climate -- 19th century -- Observations -- History (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Climate -- Observations (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Commerce (4)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Commerce -- Statistics (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Description -- 1865-1900 (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Description and travel (71)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Description and travel -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Description and travel -- Periodicals (7)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Directories (47)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Distances, etc -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Drama (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Economic conditions (15)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals (5)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- Statistics -- Periodicals (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Economic policy -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Emigration and immigration (4)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Essays (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Evaluation (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Fiction (90)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Finance (6)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Genealogy (5)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Guidebooks (30)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Historical geography (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Historical geography -- Maps (29)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History (193)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- 18th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- 19th century (9)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Personal narratives (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century (16)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- Drama (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- Fiction (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- Periodicals (9)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- History, Local (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Humor (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Imprints (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Imprints -- Catalogs (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- In art (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Juvenile fiction (13)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Library resources (7)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Literary Collections (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Maps (271)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Maps -- Indexes (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Newspapers (40)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Newspapers -- Indexes (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Officials and employees -- Directories (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Old Chapel Hill Cemetery -- Archival Material (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Periodicals (27)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Photographs (17)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Pictorial works (18)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Pictorial works -- Calendars (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Pictorial works -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Planning (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Poetry (11)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Politics and government (30)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century (7)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- Indexes (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals (4)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- Statistics (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Population (6)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Population -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Population -- Statistics (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations (55)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- 20th century (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race Relations -- History (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Periodicals (4)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Photographs (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Registers (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Religion (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Religious life and customs (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Remote-sensing images (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social conditions (6)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs (98)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social Life and Customs -- 19th Century (2)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century (9)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Periodicals (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Songs and music (3)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Statistics (11)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Statistics -- Periodicals (12)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Telephone directories (8)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Tours (4)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Tours -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Universities (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) (6 works · 7 headings)

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Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Civilization (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Indexes (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Guidebooks (2)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- History -- Sources -- Indexes (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Maps (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Pictorial works (1)

Chapel Hill Region (N.C.) -- Telephone directories (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) (142 works · 27 headings)

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Chatham County (N.C.) (86)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Biography (2)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Description and travel (2)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Description and travel -- Periodicals (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Economic conditions (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- Maps (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Economic Conditions -- Statistics (3)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Employment -- Statistics (3)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Genealogy (15)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Guidebooks (4)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- History (5)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- History -- Maps (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Maps (7)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Maps -- Indexes (2)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Newspapers (2)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Periodicals (9)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Photographs (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Pictorial works (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Politics and government (2)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Politics and government -- Newspapers (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Population (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Population -- Statistics (3)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Social conditions -- Maps (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Statistics (1)

Chatham County (N.C.) -- Telephone directories (1)

These headings come from Library of Congress and local vocabularies used by the participating libraries. Counts show linked works in Orange County Indexed. Related headings are grouped automatically, and the People section combines common name variants. Report corrections through the contact form.

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Orange County Indexed brings together records about Orange County from twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina, the Digital Public Library of America, DataCite, and Crossref. This page searches the full index, including books, maps, archival collections, government documents, campus materials, digitized primary sources, and published research about the county.

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