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A Right to Speak and to Hear: Academic Freedom and Free Expression at UNC

Daguerreotype of the sophomore class at the University of North Carolina, mid 1850s.
On June 26, 1963 North Carolina's lawmakers approved a bill that came to be known as the Speaker Ban. The law forbade Communists and others critical of the United States government from speaking on…

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