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- "The battle for freedom begins every morning": John Hervey Wheeler, Civil Rights, and New South prosperity
Brandon Kyron Lenzie Winford, Doctoral dissertation, UNC Department of History, 2014.
- *The Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina
The monument known as Silent Sam stood at the north entrance to campus for more than 100 years. What meaning did it have for the men and women who placed it there? Why does it matter to us today? Explore these questions and more in this digital exhibit by James L. Leloudis, Professor of History, and Cecelia Moore, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research assistance from Rob Shapard, PhD, and Brian Fennessy, doctoral candidate in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2017-2019
- How Dean Smith's Push For Civil Rights Transformed Chapel Hill
Charlie Shelton and Frank Stasio, Nov. 30, 2016 In the new book, "Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and The Era That Transformed A Southern College Town" (UNC Press/2016), author Art Chanksy details Smith and Scott's origins and relationship at UNC-CH. Host Frank Stasio talks with Chansky about the racial climate of Chapel Hill during the civil rights movement and why Smith put his job on the line in recruiting Scott.
- Ku Klux Klan movement in North Carolina
- Lincoln Hospital of Durham, North Carolina: A Short History
Charles D. Watts and Frank W. Scott. Journal of the National Medical Association 57(2);March 1965:177-183 Lincoln Hospital, a 125-bed general hospital in Durham, NC, was founded in 1901. It serves primarily the Negro citizens of Durham and adjacent counties. Lincoln Hospital was founded by Dr. A.M. Moore, the first Negro physician in the city.
- Martin Luther King Jr. and Chapel Hill’s Jim Crow past
Mike Ogle, April 4, 2018, The News & Observer CHAPEL HILL Martin Luther King Jr. walked out the door after his final speech of his trip to town and stood on the building’s front steps. Ahead and a little to his left on the old campus quad, the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam stood taller. It was May of 1960, and King had just given his fourth talk in two days here.
- The State of Things - Frank Stasio interviews several of the first black students to attend Duke
Broadcast 1/19/2015
- Yonni Chapman: Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793-1960
The late John K. (Yonni) Chapman's UNC dissertation, 2006. His committee members were James L. Leloudis, Jerma A. Jackson, Reginald Hildebrand, Gerald Horne, Timothy B. Tyson
- Yonni Chapman - Second Generation: Black Youth and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill, NC, 1937-1963
John K. (Yonni) Chapman, 1995. Master's thesis, UNC Department of History. Reformatted August 2007.
Read about the late Yonni Chapman at https://web.archive.org/web/20140602171546/http://freedomlegacyproject.blogspot.com/. See also his folder in Virtual Library | People.