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  • Collection: Climbing the Hill: Women in the History of UNC

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

Photograph of students supporting food service workers strike, 1969
Black and white photograph of students supporting food service workers strike in 1969. Photographer Billy Barnes.

Miss BSM, 1977
Miss BSM on page 17 of Black Inknewspaper publication of the Black Student Movement at UNC November 22, 1977.Full issue Here: http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236558/1977-11-22/ed-1/

The Co-Ed drawing
Drawing by Miss Cantie Venable, art, New York, New York

Advertisement for Carolina Gay Association in the Daily Tar Heel, 1989
Advertisement for Carolina Gay Association in the Daily Tar Heel, 8/28/1989. The full page can be…

Lambda announcement of CGLA, 1985
Lambda periodical announces the Carolina Gay Association will change name to Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association. February-March 1985.

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

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

Letter from Jamie Ellis to Chancellor about women's studies curriculum, 1974
Letter from student Jamie Ellis to Chancellor Nelson Ferebee Taylor, November 18, 1974 about women's studies curriculum.

Fear Map of sexual assault on campus, 1989
Fear Map of sexual assault on campus from 1989 thesis by Karen Frances Falconer.

Female Liberation #27 demands, 1970
2-page typed list of demands for UNC from Female Liberation #27.

Feminary : a feminist journal for the South emphasizing the lesbian vision, 1974
Opening of Feminary : a feminist journal for the South emphasizing the lesbian vision to a cover of Volume 5 #22, November 10, 1974 with an 1855 poem by Lucy Stone.

Zora Neale Hurston illustration in Ruptures, 2017
Illustration of Zora Neale Hurston in Ruptures, a zine produced by FLOCK collective in 2017 about the fight for Hurston Hall.

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.

"Yo Soy Latina" program description
Program proposal for Yo Soy Latina from Lambda Pi Chi sorority, 2003.

Lollipop Power Inc. children's books, 1970-1986
Three books published by Lollipop Power Inc. Titles are: I Like You to Make Jokes with Me, But I Don't Want You to Touch Me. By Ellen Bass, illustrated by Marti Betz. Lots of Mommies. By Jane Severance, illustrated by Jan Jones. Jesse's Dream Skirt.…

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…

Elephants and Butterflies...and contraceptives, 1971.
Colorful cover of 1970s sexual health pamphlet.

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.

NAACP newsletter with "UNC Housekeepers Win Settlement" headline
Front page of NAACP newsletter with "UNC Housekeepers Win Settlement" headline.

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.

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

The Co-Ed, a poem by student Harvey Hatcher Hughes, Yackety Yack yearbook,  1906
The poem The Co-Ed, written by student Harvey Hatcher Hughes for the 1906 Yackety Yak yearbook, describes a woman student walking across campus. Performed by Jeff Cornell

Mary deB. Graves, Yackety Yack yearbook, 1906
Student Mary deB. Graves, writes about her experience as a female student in the Yackety Yack yearbook, 1906. Performed by Gwendolyn Schwinke

Norma Berryhill, Class of 1925, in an interview with UNC Archives.
Norma Berryhill, Class of 1925, in an interview with UNC Archives. Berryhill discusses her experience as a student in this oral history. Performed by Julia Gibson
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