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  • Collection: Academic Freedom at UNC

Telegram, Junius G. Adams to Frank Porter Graham, 21 September 1939, Salisbury, N.C.
In this letter, a North Carolina citizen expresses his opinion that Fritz Kuhn should not be allowed to speak before the Carolina Political Union at UNC. As the head of the German American Bund and a supporter of Nazi Germany, Kuhn was a…

Report, Special Faculty Committee to President H.W. Chase
A report from the Special Faculty Committee to President H.W. Chase regarding the Carolina Magazine controversy.

In October 1926, the University of North Carolina student publication, Carolina Magazine, published a short story titled "Slaves,"…

Qur'an postcard 1
postcard about the Qur'an as a summer reading at UNC.

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Portion of draft of Strike Song
Just as students used creative writing to test the limits of their free expression on campus, UNC faculty also used creative outlets to explore contentious issues of the day. In 1931, the Carolina Playmakers produced Strike Song, a three-act play…

Photograph, Strike Song production by Carolina Playmakers
Just as students had used creative writing to test the limits of their free expression on campus, UNC faculty also used creative outlets to explore contentious issues of the day. In 1931, the Carolina Playmakers produced Strike Song, a three-act play…

Photograph, Langston Hughes (left) and Contempo co-publisher Anthony Buttitta
Contempo was a small literary magazine published in Chapel Hill by co-editors Milton “Ab” Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta, both former UNC students. Although only lasting from 1931-1934, Contempo was able to build a strong reputation among critics and…

Photograph of unidentified Tar an’ Feathers staff members reading a copy of the May 1939 Carolina Buccaneer.
Photograph of unidentified Tar an’ Feathers staff members reading a copy of the May 1939 Carolina Buccaneer. The person in the center is probably editorial staff member Haskell Bertrand Gleicher. Photograph taken sometime in May, 1941 as several of…

Photograph of Hazel Katherine Hill
Hazel Katherine "Kat" Hill was the first female editor of the Daily Tar Heel, serving in that position from 1943 to 1944.

Photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Clyde R. Hoey, and Frank Porter Graham.
Photograph of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, North Carolina Governor Clyde R. Hoey, and University President Frank Porter Graham on the occasion of President Roosevelt's CPU-sponsored visit to UNC Chapel Hill.

Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt during visit to UNC Chapel Hill, 1942, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Eleanor Roosevelt (at head of table) sitting in a dining hall with students, faculty, and staff, during Roosevelt’s January 1942 visit to the University of North Carolina, as the keynote speaker at a jointly-sponsored International Student…

Photograph of Clyde R. Hoey and James Farley
Photograph taken during Postmaster General Farley’s visit to Chapel Hill to speak before the Carolina Political Union.

Photograph of Carolina Political Union Executive Committee
First appearance of the Carolina Political Union in the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook, the Yackety Yack.
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