Record #:

21572

Author(s):

Martin, Charles H.

Abstract:

From the the late 1950s through the 1960s, the university members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) became leaders in the struggle to integrate collegiate athletics in the South. This article chronicles the evolution of the racial composition of Southern college sports teams from the Jim Crow days of the 1890s-1950s and the total exclusion of African-American athletes, through a period when segregated Southern teams would play integrated teams from Northern colleges, to the period when Southern schools, under the leadership of the ACC and often under pressure from civil rights groups, integrated their teams.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999, p253-284, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Atlantic Coast Conference--Integration; College athletics--Integration

Record #:

21577

Author(s):

Holden, Charles L.

Abstract:

A look at The Carolina Political Union (CPU), a political study group founded by students at the University of North Carolina in 1936 to sponsor appearances on campus by political speakers. The university supported CPU, even when speakers chosen were controversial or too liberal - or sometimes even too conservative - unimpeded by the university's progressive and liberal tradition. Within its first five years, the group hosted nearly fifty speakers representing a wide range of the political spectrum, from the head of the Ku Klux Klan to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to labor leaders. The group declined with the onset of WWII, although it did continue to sponsor speakers.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999, p285-315, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Carolina Political Union

Record #:

21578

Author(s):

Smith, Michael Thomas

Abstract:

This article examines potential causes for University of North Carolina professor Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick'a steadfast antislavery beliefs which, among other things, led to his dismissal in 1856. The university stated its reasoning for the decision came from its belief that the university was no place for rancorous political debates. Effectively banished from his native North Carolina, Hedrick worked for the US Patent Office in Washington, D.C., and never again lived in North Carolina on a permanent basis.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999, p316-336, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History