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

Photographs of women at dances, 1920s-1930s
Photographs of women at Carolina dances, 1920s-1930s

Photograph of women students, 1969 Yackety Yack yearbook
Photograph of women students, 1969 Yackety Yack yearbook

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.

Photograph of Marsha Tinnen and Barbara Prear, UNC Housekeepers Association
3x5 color photograph of Marsha Tinnen and Barbara Prear, leaders of the UNC Housekeepers Association, on the steps of South Building.

Photograph of food service workers strike with police, 1969
Black and white photograph of police and protesters during 1969 food service workers strike.

Photograph of a student from the 1978 Yackety Yack yearbook
Photograph of a student from the 1978 Yackety Yack yearbook

Pauli Murray Sign by artist Jeanine Tatlock, 2018
Silent Sam protest sign by artist Jeanine Tatlock in 2018. Plywood, painted gold, glued on 3D letters. Large board made to look like plaque on side of building. "where is our statue of Pauli Murray?"

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.

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

Notice about funding for Gay & Lesbian Studies classes, 1998
Notice from Cecil Wooten about funding for Gay/Lesbian Studies classes in 1998.

Notes for Your First Year:  A Handbook for Women, Fall 1971
Notes for Your First Year: A Handbook for Women, Fall 1971. Voiced by Vivienne Benesch.

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

News on the 1922 Commencement, Greensboro Daily News, 1922
Newspaper article, Chapel Hill Alumnae Plan Big Celebration Co-Education to Stay, May 31 1922. Published by the Greensboro Daily News. Voiced by Lauren Ragsdale

News article from the Daily Tar Heel, UNC Women March for Empowerment, November 10, 1994, Annual ‘Take Back the Night’ March Highlight of Rape Awareness Week
News article from the Daily Tar Heel, UNC Women March for Empowerment, November 10, 1994, Annual ‘Take Back the Night’ March Highlight of Rape Awareness Week. Performed by Aubree Dixon, Katia Carmichael, and Lauren Ragsdale.

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

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/

Mildred Council Day announcement, 2002
One sheet with Mayor's signature, Kevin Foy, golden seal announcing Mildred Council Day.

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

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…

Lorelei's Spring Concert flier, 1992
Flier for Lorelei's singing ensemble Spring Concert in 1992.

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.…

List of women's studies classes, 1974
Typed list of women's studies classes offered in Fall semester 1974.

Letter from UNC alumnae asking for Woman's Building, 1923
Onion skin letter to UNC President from women alums asking for a Woman's Building in 1923.

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.

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