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UNC’s student strike against the Vietnam War, May 1970

After the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings, some 6,000 students joined a strike that suspended business as usual on campus.

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Oral history interview with Sharon Rose Powell, June 20, 1989: interview L-0041, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Powell, Sharon Rose · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Sharon Rose Powell attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the mid-1960s, when women students began to attend the university in greater numbers. Powell entered UNC in the fall of 1964, when ten p…

Oral history interview with Anne Queen, November 22, 1976: interview G-0049-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Queen, Anne · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

This is the second of two interviews with Anne Queen, former industrial worker turned director of the YWCA-YMCA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this interview, Queen focuses on her perception of the c…

Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 22, 2001: interview K-0215, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Emerging from a family of progressive ministers, military servicemen, and attorneys, Daniel Pollitt came to link his religious and liberal racial beliefs to his civic duty. His forward-minded family heritage influenced …

Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 19, 1990: interview L-0048, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

… Queen's interest in social justice issues intersected with Pollitt's active support of racial equity and student activism.

Oral history interview with William C. Friday, December 18, 1990: interview L-0049, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Friday, William C. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

William C. Friday served as the president of the University of North Carolina from 1957 to 1986. During his tenure, he worked closely with Anne Queen. Trained in seminary, Queen had become the associate director of the …

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Icons of Power and Landscapes of Protest

Roseboro, Donyell L. · 2005

UNC

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

UNC

I raised my hand to volunteer : students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill.

2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC

Red state, blue heaven : the conservative student movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David, Eric M. · 2005

UNC

Left turn : the Carolina journal of radical thought.

2001

UNC

Caution and candor : the student movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1929-1940

Donovan, Sarah Elizabeth · 1998

UNC

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  1. UNC student strike of 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 down… People: J. Carlyle SittersonDaily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): May 7, 1970, page 1

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