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Audio recording, "The Speaker Ban Ballad"
UNC senior Bill Dale recorded "The Speaker Ban Ballad" in November 1966. Dale, an English major from Asheville, had been singing professionally for about six months when he recorded the song (3:14). The North Carolina Collection.
Audio recording, Harriet Herring recalls David Clark's editorial campaign against UNC President Frank Porter Graham.
Harriet Herring recalls David Clark's editorial campaign against UNC President Frank Porter Graham, who advocated unionizing North Carolina's cotton mills. Clark was editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin, a publication that generally sided with…
Audio recording, Harriet Herring discusses her work with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and the opposition that she and the Institute faced from mill owners.
Harriet Herring describes her work with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and the opposition she faced from David Clark, editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin and an ally of mill owners. Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring,…
Audio recording, Guion Griffis Johnson recalls Howard Odum's arrival at UNC in 1924.
Guion Griffis Johnson recalls Howard Odum's arrival at UNC in 1924. Odum founded the Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC. Johnson and her husband Guy Johnson worked with Odum at the Institute (6:17). Oral History Interview with Guion…
Audio recording, Guion Griffis Johnson discusses her husband Guy Johnson, a UNC sociologist, and his sponsorship of a visit by Langston Hughes to UNC in December 1931.
Guion Griffis Johnson discusses her husband Guy Johnson, a UNC sociologist, and his sponsorship of a visit by Langston Hughes to UNC in December 1931 (3:02). Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, May 27, 1974. Interview G-002903,…
Audio recording, Guion Griffis Johnson discusses views of the "Negro" held by her colleagues at UNC
Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, May 27, 1974. Interview G-002903, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection.
Link, "Allah Young Dudes" excerpt from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Outcry over selection of Approaching the Qur'an as the Summer Reading book for 2002 put UNC in the national spotlight and prompted The Daily Show to poke fun at those critical of the choice. The piece features an interview with Robert Kirkpatrick,…
Pamphlet, Burlington Dynamite Plot, written by Walt Pickard and illustrated by Bill Siegel, published by International Labor Defense, New York, N.Y., 1935
This pamphlet was published and sold as a fundraiser by International Labor Defense, New York, N.Y., to support the defense for the textile workers on trial.
Article, "Dynamite in Burlington," by William T. Couch and James Osler Bailey, published in The Nation (vol. 140, no. 3642), 24 April 1935.
Article written by William T. Couch and James O. Bailey in support of textile workers accused of bombing two mills in Burlington, N.C.
![Radio Show Transcript, Viewpoint #648 (July 9,1963), Viewpoint, [Raleigh, N.C.: Capitol Broadcasting Co.], 1960-1976. North Carolina Collection]](https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fc68383ff19ef4ca32e8fc4def096b76.jpg "Viewpoint#648(1963-07-09)_p1.jpg")
![Radio Show Transcript, Viewpoint #1466 (October 25, 1966), Viewpoint, [Raleigh, N.C.: Capitol Broadcasting Co.], 1960-1976. North Carolina Collection]](https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/files/square_thumbnails/743a5a702cd32c2ad71596a953d1b7e7.jpg "Viewpoint1966_1466-1.jpg")
![Radio Show Transcript, Viewpoint #1458 (October 13, 1966), Viewpoint, [Raleigh, N.C.: Capitol Broadcasting Co.], 1960-1976. North Carolina Collection]](https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/files/square_thumbnails/398d147eb0a244623da8ae66223aee7e.jpg "Viewpoint1966_1458-1.jpg")
Letter, Frank Porter Graham to Kemp Plummer Lewis
In this letter, University President Frank Porter Graham thanks Kemp Plummer Lewis, a University trustee and Durham textile executive, for his support on several labor issues, including the "reduction of hours and abolition of night work for women…
