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- Exhibit: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
Saltarelli Room, 3rd Floor, Wilson ...
Thursday, October 8 at 9:00am - Film Screening: "The First 100"
Student Union Theater, UNC Chapel H...
Tuesday, December 1 at 5:15pm
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- Creator of the Month…William Jesse Kennedy, Jr. 12:57pm Nov 16
- Thirty Years Later: Remembering the Greensboro Massacre 10:51am Nov 3
- Legacy finding aids update 1:37pm Oct 30
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William Jesse Kennedy, Jr...
Thirty years ago today, on November 3, 1979, the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later renamed the Communist Workers Party) sponsored an anti-Klan march and conference in Greensboro, North Carolina...
Southern Historical Collection As a preview of Monday's lecture by Devin Fergus...
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The latest group of finding aids updated and encoded during this project are now available. For a full list of these finding aids, please click here...
George C. Stoney (1916- ), a documentary filmmaker who specialized in socially relevant films, was a mentor and teacher to generations of filmmakers and media activists worldwide and a pioneer in the movement for the creation and use of public access television to enact social change...
Southern Historical Collection At Tuesday's exhibit opening for "We Shall Not Be Moved," we had the world premiere of this video preview of the exhibit. Here it is, in case you missed it.
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A preview of the Southern Historical Collection's exhibit, "We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present". The exhibit is on view in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room on the third floor of Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill, from Oct. ...
Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) was born in Nasik, India, where her father was a British civil servant. After leaving India, she lived in England and Canada...
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New SHC exhibit opens today! Here's an article in the Durham Herald-Sun about it.
The opening reception/celebratory program for the exhibit will be Oct. 20th. More info on the event forthcoming... http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_stor
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New exhibit at UNC's Wilson Library chronicles the experience of African Americans in the SouthWHAT: "We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present"WHEN: Exhibit opens today and continues through Feb. ...
A new set of legacy finding aids, or finding aids previously only available in paper format, have been posted online. Notable selections from this group include: John K. Hoyt Journal, #3436-z John K. Hoyt was a viticulturist and vintner at Engadine Vineyards in West Asheville, NC...
Southern Historical Collection Thought we'd share this great article by Bill Burk on the history of the construction of the rock walls around UNC's campus. (Burk is UNC's librarian emeritus and long-time friend of the SHC.)
Source: www.chapelhillnews.com
One of the first impressions that visitors experience when entering Chapel Hill is of the rock walls that adorn the landscape. They were first built on the UNC campus under the careful eye of Elisha Mitchell, a prominent professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. ...
Southern Historical Collection A large collection of material relating to the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Durham, will go to the archives at Duke Univ. All rivalries aside, we are pleased that this important collection will be preserved! The collection is held jointly with the archives at NC Central Univ.
Source: www.heraldsun.com
By Neil Offennoffen@heraldsun.com; 419-6646DURHAM -- In the foreground of the sepia-toned photograph is a horse and buggy, with two riders, hats on, sitting stiffly. S.R. Carrington's Bar is behind the ...
“Through the long, hot summer and the long cold winter, Delta Ministry looks ahead: to a total ministry, to growing self-respect and self-determination among delta Negroes, to a bold new start for some.” So begins the text of a wonderful brochure (found in the SHC’s Delta Health Center Recor...
Harry Stanley was born Tufton K. Stanley on 2 September 1832 in Boston, Mass. He first enlisted in the United States Navy in 1855 and then reenlisted on 21 September 1861...
The SHC contains a number of collections that document the lives of Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island Prison near Sandusky, Ohio. ...
Southern Historical Collection Taylor Branch, UNC alum, has a new (big) book out!
Source: www.usatoday.com
In his tapes, Taylor Branch tried to capture President Clinton's unvarnished perspective on matters from the consequential to the comic.
