Climbing the Hill: Women in the History of UNC

Pauli Murray Letter

1951: Pauli Murray again writes UNC asking about admission - about graduate studies… note that she had applied in 1938 and was rejected because she was Black.

Chapman/Love Correspondence

Printouts of emails about the Bell Award, Cornelia Phillips Spencer's legacy, and race on campus.

Coeducation Cartoon 1907

1907 Yackety Yack opened to page 110-111 with illustration "coeducation as developed at the university..." next page Woman's University Club with names and a photo of the group.

Baby-In Clipping 1970

This is a newspaper clipping from the News & Observer kept by the Chancellor's office related to the Feminist Liberation Organization on campus - their "baby-in" demanding child care on campus.

Gwendolyn Harrison Housing Card

This is a small 3x5 housing card for the first Black woman admitted as student, Gwendolyn Harrison.

Students Protest Stone's Tenure Denial

3x5 black and white photograph of students protesting Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure denial, 1980.

Cover of The Hunting Ground DVD

2015 documentary about sexual assault on college campuses which features two UNC students Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino.

Daily Tar Heel article about gender neutral housing, 2013

Front page of Daily Tar Heel August 19, 2013 with headline "Gender-neutral no more"

Opening from Karen Parker Diary

1960s Spiral bound lined notebook, opening chosen. Karen Parker was the first Black woman undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill.

Sallie Walker Stockard's diploma

Sallie Walker Stockard's diploma. 1898 first woman to graduate from UNC Chapel Hill.

Durham Herald Sun Clipping about Susan Akers, 1933

August 20, 1933 newspaper clippings Akers kept about herself. First woman dean at UNC. Durham paper.

Alpha Pi Omega in Yackety Yack, 2003

Alpha Pi Omega in Yackety Yack v. 113 (2003) p. 309. Alpha Pi Omega is the first Native American Greek letter organization and was founded at UNC Chapel Hill.

Women's Handbook Quiz, 1954-55

The Woman's Handbook, 1954-55. Opening to quiz about clothing and general recommendations for proper socializing.

UNC Dance Cards, 1880s

1880s… two (2) dance cards - including pencils, color, handwriting

So you're coming to a Carolina dance.

1930s-40s. Recommendations to coeds for proper dance/social behavior - from Order of the Grail, German Club.

Tar Heel newspaper announcement of Phi Beta Phi, 1923

Oct 1923 - newspaper "University now has chapter of Pi Beta Phi"

Louise Davis Photographs, 1930s-1960s

"Photographs compiled by white student Louise Davis, a member of the Chi Omega sorority and the first woman commencement marshal when she graduated in 1937 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. At the time these photographs were…

Intramural sports photographs, 1950s-1970s

1950s-1970s, various intramural sports. 1. Corec bowling: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0031/#bw120rollfilm_35018#1 (note photographer is SCOTT RAMSEY) 2. 1959 tennis is in Print Box 096 Black and White 8x10 Photographic Print P0031/50364 -…