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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cecelia Conway papers #4871, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Cecelia Conway of Boone, N.C. in March 1997 (Acc. 97035).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Antinuclear movement--North Carolina.
• Carolina Power and Light Company.
• Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris.
• Conway, Cecelia.
• Nuclear industry--North Carolina.
• Nuclear power plants--North Carolina.
• Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant (N.C.)
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C.

The collection contains the files of the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power & Light's Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Chatham County, N.C. The internal organization and activities CASH are chronicled, along with public activities, interaction with legislature and nuclear industry professionals, press releases, and newspaper articles. Also included are CASH's files relating to state and federal legislature, Carolina Power & Light, and various related organizations and publications. Clippings about nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, the Chernobyl disaster, and problems at other nuclear sites are included. Many clippings and whole issues of the Raleigh News and Observer, the Raleigh Times, the Durham Morning Herald, the Durham Sun, the Independent, and the Spectator, all of which published frequent articles, editorials, and letters to the editor about Shearon Harris, were not retained in the collection.

These materials arrived at the Southern Historical Collection with very little organization. They have been roughly sorted and arranged and put in archival folders and boxes. Some duplicates were removed, but many remain in the collection. Similar material may be found in more than one place in the collection. Researchers therefore should be inclusive in their searching strategies.