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A Right to Speak and to Hear: Academic Freedom and Free Expression at UNC
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 the campuses of North Carolina’s publicly-funded universities and colleges. This exhibit examines events that tested the University’s commitment to academic freedom and free expression from the nineteenth century to the present day.