Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Wayne Hurder Papers #05445, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Wayne Hurder of Raleigh, N.C. in November 2009 (Acc. 101193) and February 2013 (Acc. 101735)

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This summary description was created in November 2017 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

Updated by Jodi Berkowitz, March 2019

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• African American college students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Societies and clubs.
• African American student movements--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• Civil rights--United States.
• College students--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Cone Mills Corporation.
• Hurder, Wayne, 1947-
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Textile workers--Labor unions--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Race relations.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Black Student Movement.
• Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
• Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--United States.

Wayne Hurder served as editor of The Daily Tar Heel and worked as the Selma, Ala. bureau chief for a weekly newspaper in the summer of 1966, covering the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. He was involved in providing support to the Civil Rights movement on campus when he returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated in 1969.

Scattered materials documenting the Civil Rights movement in the American South, chiefly 1966-1969, collected by Wayne Hurder. Papers are chiefly printed materials, including pamphlets, newsletters, fliers, and clippings, and document the tenth annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1966, and student organizations such as the Southern Student Organizing Committee, among other Civil Rights organizations, as well as the Black Student Movement and food workers' strike at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, labor issues at the Cone Mills textile manufacturing plant, and anti-Vietnam War efforts.