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| Size | 21.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 11,200 items) |
| Abstract | John Kenyon Chapman (1947-2009), known as Yonni, was a white, life-long social justice activist, organizer, and historian who focused his academic and social efforts on workers rights and African American empowerment in central North Carolina. Chapman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1947; graduated from Harvard University in 1969; and then moved to Atlanta, Ga., to join the fight for African American equality. He relocated to North Carolina in 1975 and worked as a laboratory technician at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital for about ten years. During this time, Chapman became active in local social justice struggles and community organizations. He helped organize his coworkers against unfair working conditions, became involved with the Communist Workers Party, and participated in African liberation and anti-apartheid struggles. Chapman was a survivor of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979. Throughout the 1980s, he was active in progressive social justice campaigns. In the 1990s and 2000s, Chapman was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he focused his activism and academic work on historical accuracy, African American empowerment, and civil rights education in and around Chapel Hill. During this time, Chapman founded and directed two racial and social justice organizations: the Freedom Legacy Project in 1995 and the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth in 2005. From 2002 to 2005, Chapman ran a successful campaign to abolish the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award on campus, an action that opened a dialogue about the history of slavery and racism on campus. After a 30-year battle with cancer, Chapman died on 22 October 2009 in Chapel Hill. The collection documents Yonni Chapman's social activism and academic activities, covering nearly four decades of progressive racial, social, and economic justice struggles in central North Carolina. Organizational correspondence, notes, newsletters, and reports document the activities of the Communist Workers Party, the Federation for Progress, the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, the New Democratic Movement, the Freedom Legacy Project, and the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, among other organizations on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and in Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and Greensboro. Workers rights and racial justice campaigns and commemorations, including the Greensboro Massacre and the campaign to end the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award on campus, are documented in paper, audio, visual, and photographic formats. Photographs, slides, contact prints, photographic negatives, posters, banners, signs, and screen-printed t-shirts, chiefly created by Chapman, document a variety of demonstrations, meetings, and social justice events. Audio and video materials, largely created by Chapman include documentaries, meetings, speeches, and demonstrations captured on audio cassettes, VHS tapes, 8mm video cassettes, and DVDs. Research materials for Chapman's graduate doctoral work include audio and paper files of interviews with participants in the Chapel Hill civil rights movement. There are also audio files recorded by Chapman on a digital voice recorder in the year leading up to his death that contain lengthy discussions with local activists about continuing his social justice work after his death; audio recordings and a video photograph montage from Chapman's 2009 memorial service; photographs of Chapman with friends and family; and other items. |
| Creator | Chapman, John Kenyon. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Matt Dailey, May 2011
Encoded by: Matt Dailey, June 2011
Updated because of digital materials ingest by Sara Mannheimer, November 2012
Data Compact Discs (DCD-5441/4-16) were ingested into the Carolina Digital Repository. They are listed in the finding aid as digital folders.
Revisions: Nancy Kaiser, January 2019
Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, October 2023
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
Select videotapes (VT-5441/8, VT-5441/43, VT-5441/55) found in this collection document the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party's 3 November 1979 attack on Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators in Greensboro, N.C. These videotapes, which document the moments leading up to, including and after the shooting, include footage of death and blood.
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Biographical Information
John Kenyon Chapman (1947-2009), known as Yonni, was a white, life-long social justice activist, organizer, and historian who focused his academic and social career on workers' rights and African American empowerment in central North Carolina. Chapman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree in United States history from Harvard University in 1969 and subsequently moved to Atlanta, Ga., to join the fight for African American equality. Chapman became a certified laboratory assistant after attending a two-year program at Atlanta Area Technical School. He moved to North Carolina in 1975 and worked as a technician, chiefly in the hematology laboratory at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1975 to 1985. During this time, Chapman became active in local social justice struggles and community organizations. He served as president of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital Employees Forum from 1978 to 1980 and helped unite his coworkers against racial discrimination and unsafe conditions in the workplace.
Soon after joining the North Carolina Memorial Hospital staff, Chapman became involved with the Workers Viewpoint Organization, a diverse nationally active progressive organization that was involved in many workers rights and racial justice campaigns, as well as African liberation and anti-apartheid struggles, in and around Greensboro and Durham, N.C. In 1979, he joined the Communist Workers Party, a radical Maoist political organization with militant and strongly anti-capitalist principles that focused its efforts chiefly on unionization and civil rights. On 3 November 1979, the Communist Workers Party held an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro. Armed members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party arrived at the rally and opened fire, killing five Communist Workers Party members. This event is known as the Greensboro Massacre, and the victims are remembered collectively as the CWP-5. Chapman was present at the Greensboro Massacre, an event that helped to solidify his commitment to social justice advocacy. He remained an active member of the Communist Workers Party until it dissolved in the early-mid 1980s.
Chapman was involved with a number of other campaigns and organizations during his time as a hospital employee. In 1980, he helped organize the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Housekeepers Movement and was active in various other campaigns in and around Orange County, N.C., including those of the Welfare Rights Organization and the Chapel Hill Tenant Organization. Chapman co-founded the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience in 1982 with fellow activist Fred Battle. The Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience focused its efforts on local school politics and the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns of Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Chapman was the North Carolina state coordinator for the Federation for Progress, a national progressive organization formed in 1982 that broadly held the ideals of equality, peace, freedom, and justice. The state chapter of the Federation for Progress was headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., and an active chapter existed in Durham as well. The organization dissolved around 1985.
Chapman was also a leader in the Durham chapter of the New Democratic Movement, a national progressive organization formed in 1985 in the wake of the Communist Workers Party. From 1985 until it dissolved in 1990, the New Democratic Movement promoted a socially democratic agenda and took a more peaceful and broadly accessible approach to politics and economics than that of the Communist Workers Party.
During the late 1980s, Chapman was employed as a woodworker at Hill Country Woodworks in Chapel Hill, was an original member of the Orange County Human Relations Commission, and served on the board of directors of the Community Church of Chapel Hill. Chapman entered the United States history graduate program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 and received his masters degree in 1995 after completing his thesis, Second Generation: Black Youth and the Origins of the Chapel Hill Civil Rights Movement, 1937-1963 . While at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he founded and directed the Freedom Legacy Project, a student-oriented social justice organization that aimed to expose institutional racism and document the history of racial justice struggles at the university in order to make that history available to modern movement-building efforts. The Freedom Legacy Project was active from 1995 to 2001 and focused much of its efforts on publicly questioning the campus presence of the Silent Sam Confederate soldier statue and decrying on racist grounds the namesake of the Saunders Hall classroom building.
During the mid-1990s, Chapman was an organizing committee member of the People's Music Network, as well as co-manager of Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill. He was an expert witness in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Housekeepers Association lawsuit, and was instrumental in organizing and presenting the housekeepers' history. From 1996 to 2000, Chapman served on the board of directors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Y, and in 2000 he made an unsuccessful bid for director.
Chapman joined the doctoral program in United States history at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and received his Ph.D. in 2006. In his dissertation, Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793-1960, Chapman explored institutional racism and the African American struggle for equality at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During this time, Chapman was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and focused much of his efforts on organizing a campaign to abolish the annual Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award was named in honor of a 19th-century woman who advocated higher education for females, yet was also a white supremacist. Chapman's campaign was ultimately successful, and his efforts opened a dialogue about the history of white supremacy, slavery, and racism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2005-2006, Chapman founded and directed the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-based social justice organization that, according to its founder, aimed to "build a larger movement for historical honesty and inclusiveness as a component of the struggle for social and economic justice.". The Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth focused much of its efforts on commemorating the Lenoir dining hall cafeteria workers' strike of 1969 and campaigning against the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award.
Throughout the 2000s, Chapman concerned himself with civil rights education in the Chapel Hill community and was actively involved in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served as the historian and second vice-chair of the organization during the late 2000s. During this time, Chapman became a certified Community Civil Rights Educator and was instrumental in a number of local commemorative civil rights campaigns.
After a 30-year battle with cancer, Yonni Chapman died on 22 October 2009 in Chapel Hill.
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Scope and Content
The collection documents Yonni Chapman's social activism and academic achievements, and, through a wide variety of audio, visual, paper, and digital formats, offers an account of nearly four decades of progressive racial, social, and economic justice struggles in the central North Carolina region.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, notes, pamphlets, newsletters, essays, articles, and meeting materials of various social justice organizations on the Univeersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus; in the town of Chapel Hill; and in such surrounding towns and cities as Durham, Raleigh, and Greensboro. Documented organizations include the Communist Workers Party, the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights, the Federation for Progress, the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, the New Democratic Movement, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Black Public Works Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the People's Music Network, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Y, the Students for Economic Justice, the Freedom Legacy Project, and the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, among others.
Also documented are various social justice campaigns in which Chapman was involved, including his organizing work as an employee at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the Greensboro Massacre, the Wilmington Ten protests, South African anti-Apartheid struggles, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lenoir dining hall cafeteria workers' strike of 1969, the Silent Sam statue controversy, the Saunders Hall renaming project, and the campaign to end the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award. Social justice campaign materials include agendas, brochures, correspondence, flyers, mailing lists and sign up sheets, meeting minutes, news articles, newsletters, notes, organizational planning materials, petitions, proposals, reports, research materials, and writings.
Audio and video materials were largely created by Chapman and include documentaries, meetings, speeches, and demonstrations captured on audio cassettes, VHS tapes, 8mm video cassettes, and DVDs. Photographs, slides, contact prints, and photographic negatives were chiefly captured by Chapman and document a variety of demonstrations, meetings, and other social justice events. Digital files from an external hard drive and Chapman's laptop computer consist of documents and some images relating to Chapman's social advocacy in Chapel Hill and the surrounding area. Also included are posters, banners, signs, and screen-printed t-shirts designed and used by Chapman at various demonstrations throughout central North Carolina.
The collection also contains interviews with participants in the Chapel Hill civil rights movement that Chapman used in his graduate and doctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paper transcripts accompany many of these interviews. The collection also includes Chapman's research, writings, and other materials concerning his graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
There are also audio files recorded by Chapman on a digital voice recorder in the year leading up to his death; some contain lengthy discussions with local activists about continuing Chapman's social justice work after his death. There are audio recordigns and a video photograph montage from Chapman's 2009 memorial service. Finally, there are born-digital photographs and scans of photographs of Chapman with friends and family including portraits of Chapman as a child through adulthood as well as photographs of nature scenes taken by Chapman.
The collection has been maintained in many of the original groupings as received by the repository. Materials of various formats that document related or identical events may be found in multiple series throughout the collection, including the unarranged Addition of August 2018. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
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Series 1. Communist Workers Party and the Greensboro Massacre Materials, 1978-2007.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, programs, correspondence, writings, memos, meeting minutes, news articles, press releases, recruitment materials, reports, and slides collected by Yonni Chapman documenting the activities of the Communist Workers Party in central North Carolina, as well as related activities surrounding and following the Greensboro Massacre. Documented events include anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstrations and movements to free the Wilmington Ten. There are also materials relating to organizations that honor the CWP-5 victims of the Greensboro Massacre, including the Greensboro Justice Fund and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission; materials relating to commemorative Greensboro Massacre documentaries and events, including a slideshow; writings by and about former Communist Worker Party members, including Signe Waller and Nelson Johnson; a 45rpm recording by a group of singers who were affiliated with the Communist Workers Party; and issues, 1976-1980, 1982, of the Workers Viewpoint, the newspaper of the Communist Workers Party.
Materials relating to the Communist Workers Party and the Greensboro Massacre can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
DVD-5441/6, DVD-5441/9, DVD-5441/11, DVD-5441/13, and DVD-5441/15 are duplicates. DCD-5441/7 contains inventories of the digital materials in the collection.
Folder 243-259
Folder 243Folder 244Folder 245Folder 246Folder 247Folder 248Folder 249Folder 250Folder 251Folder 252Folder 253Folder 254Folder 255Folder 256Folder 257Folder 258Folder 259 |
Workers Viewpoint, 1976-1980, 1982Full issues of the newspaper of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later Communist Workers Party), collected by Yonni Chapman. A few issues have small markings, presumably by Chapman. Published monthly from 1976 to 1977, bi-monthly from 1978 to 1980, and weekly in 1982. |
| Folder 1 |
North Carolina Coalition to Free the Wilmington Ten, Raleigh, N.C., 1978Organizational notes, meeting minutes, correspondence, news articles, petitions, and informational flyers. |
| Folder 2 |
African Liberation Day flyer, May 1978 |
| Folder 3 |
United League of Mississippi Anti-Klan march, Tupelo, Miss., November 1978March poster, mobilization flyers, and documents that detail the history of the United League of Mississippi's activism. |
| Audiodisc D-5441/1 |
"In the 80s (Watchu Gonna Do)" by The May Day Singers, Communist Workers Party, 1980 |
| Folder 4 |
Communist Workers Party CWP-5 slideshow, circa 1980Slides and handwritten script for a slideshow that was developed shortly after the Greensboro Massacre as a way of educating the public about the event. |
| Audiocassette C-5441/66 |
Communist Workers Party CWP-5 slideshow audio accompaniment, circa 1980Audiocassette |
| Folder 5 |
Communist Workers Party organizational materials, 1979-1983 |
| Folder 6 |
Communist Workers Party news articles, circa 1980sIncludes a newsprint photograph of Yonni Chapman disrupting a public talk by Governor Jim Hunt in Siler City, N.C., September 1980. |
| Folder 7 |
Greensboro Massacre news articles, circa 1980s |
| Folder 8 |
Wilson Brothers Coal Company protest flyer, 1980 |
| Folder 9 |
Greensboro Massacre Commemorative events, 1982-2004Programs, ticket stubs, and correspondence regarding various marches, receptions, dinners, church services, and vigils that were organized in honor of those killed and injured during the Greensboro Massacre. Also included are numerous news articles about the history of the event and those who were involved. |
| Folder 10 |
88 Seconds in Greensboro, Greensboro Civil Rights Fund, video log, January 1983See VT-5441/1 for the VHS videotape. |
| Folder 11 |
Greensboro Justice Fund, 1980s-2001Newsletters, flyers, and internal correspondence from the Greensboro Justice Fund, a national endowment fund formed in 1986 that offers grants to progressive southern grassroots organizations. |
| Folder 12 |
Nelson Johnson articles and newsletters, 1986-2006Newsletters and articles related to Reverend Nelson Johnson, a Communist Workers Party leader who became a Baptist minister in Greensboro, N.C., in 1986. |
| Folder 13 |
Signe Waller writings, 1980s-2005Articles, essays, an interview, and other works regarding Signe Waller's experience as a Communist Workers Party member, Greensboro Massacre survivor, and widow of CWP-5 victim Jim Waller. |
| Folder 14 |
Greensboro Massacre 19th Anniversary, video log and commentary, 1998See VT-5441/13 for VHS videotape. |
| Folder 15 |
Greensboro Massacre materials sent by Yonni Chapman to Tracy Hood for documentary, 19 June 2000Includes video log, crime scene photographs and captions. See VT-5441/55 for VHS videotape. See VT-5441/56 for 8mm videotape. |
| Folder 16 |
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2003-2007Organizational flyers, newletters, memoranda, Greensboro Massacre 24th Anniversary Commemoration materials, and Yonni Chapman's testimony to the Commission during its first Greensboro Massacre public hearing in July 2005. |
| Folder 17 |
Lawbreakers: The Greensboro Massacre, flyers for public viewing and discussion facilitated by Yonni Chapman on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, 14 October 2004 |
| Folder 18 |
Letter to Yonni Chapman from producers of Greensboro: Closer to the Truth documentary, June 2008 |
| Folder 260 |
Communist Workers Party and Greensboro Massacre, 1979-1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 261 |
Communist Workers Party and Greensboro Massacre articles, statements, 1982-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 262 |
Sandy Smith leaflet, 1979Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 263 |
Greensboro Massacre, 1979-1980Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 264 |
CWP Peace Tour, 1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 265 |
CWP articles, drafts, notes, 1980-1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 266 |
CWP flyers, outreach letters, 1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Includes Grenada, Jesse Jackson 1984 campaign |
| Folder 267 |
CWP pamphlets, undatedAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 268 |
CWP releases, clippings, flyers, 1980-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 269 |
CWP speeches, publications, 1983-1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 270 |
CWP publicationsAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 271 |
CWP statement and news release, 1980Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 272 |
Signe Waller thesis draft, "Re-Contexting the Agenda on Racism," 1987Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 273 |
Workers Viewpoint reprints, 1981-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
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Box 24Box 25Box 26 |
Workers Viewpoint, 1970s-1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
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Series 2. Federation for Progress Records, 1978-1985.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Founding documents, proposals, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and other papers relating to the development of the organization. There are also flyers, petitions, and a proposal relating to the 1982 Dump Jesse Helms campaign.
Materials relating to the Federation for Progress can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
| Folder 19 |
Federation for Progress organizational materials, 1978-1985Founding documents, proposals, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other papers relating to the development of the organization. |
| Folder 20 |
Dump Jesse Helms campaign, 1982Flyers, petitions, and a campaign proposal. |
| Folder 21 |
Federation for Progress newsletters, 1982-1983 |
| Folder 21a |
Federation for Progress clippings, brochures, and photocopied articles |
| Folder 274 |
Federation for Progress organizational materials, 1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Includes meeting files, draft program |
| Folder 275 |
Federation for Progress Task Force on Environmental Hazards, 1973Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Includes letters, petitions, articles |
| Folder 276 |
Federation for Progress flyers and clippings, 1982-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Issues covered include housing, Warren County PCBs, Reagan/Helms |
| Folder 277 |
Federation for Progress newsletters, flyers, 1982-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 278 |
Federation for Progress newsletters, flyers, proposals, conference materials, 1982-1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Includes Warren County PCB-related material |
| Folder 279 |
Chapel Hill/Carrboro Federation for Progress, 1982-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 280 |
North Carolina Federation for Progress: Warren County PCB issue, 1982-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 281 |
North Carolina Federation for Progress: Dump Jesse Helms, Warren County PCB flyers and petitions, 1982-1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 282 |
North Carolina Federation for Progress press releases, letters, 1981-1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 283 |
Columbus (Ohio) Federation for Progress, early 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
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Series 3. New Democratic Movement Records, 1982-1992.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Memoranda, meeting minutes, notes, agendas, internal topical writings and publications, correspondence, membership lists and applications, bulletins, newsletters, magazines, and other papers relating to the development of the organization.
Materials relating to the New Democratic Movement can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
| Folder 22 |
New Democratic Movement Meeting minutes and writings, 1984-1986 |
Folder 23-26
Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
New Democratic Movement organizational materials, 1985-1992 |
| Folder 27 |
Wilfred Chan study materials, summer 1986Collection of published topical readings to be used in conjunction with a local leadership study plan developed by New Democratic Movement leader Wilfred Chan in the summer 1986 national bulletin. |
Folder 28-34
Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34 |
New Democratic Movement organizational materials, 1985-1992 |
Folder 35-37
Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37 |
New Democratic Movement national bulletins, 1984-1988 |
| Folder 38 |
New Democratic Movement newsletters and magazines, 1985-1987 |
| Folder 39 |
Wilfred Chan study materials, Summer 1986 |
| Folder 40 |
Progressive political, economic, and social justice articles and topical writings, 1980s |
| Folder 41 |
Miscellaneous progressive publications, 1980sPublication topics include faith, African Americans in the American Revolutionary War, child rights, nuclear waste, Asian American equality, and farmworkers rights. |
| Folder 42 |
Other related organizations' materials, 1982-1990Notes, memoranda, and correspondence of organizations that appear to be related to or topically linked to the New Democratic Movement. |
| Folder 284 |
New Democratic Movement membership application, memoranda, newsletter, 1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 285 |
New Democratic Movement meeting notes, 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 286 |
New Democratic Movement notes, 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 287 |
New Democratic Movement notes, memoranda, meeting minutes, 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 288 |
New Democratic Movement program documents, 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 289 |
The New Democrat: Magazine of the New Democratic Movement, 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 290 |
New Democratic Movement meeting, 27 September 1987Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 291 |
New Democratic Movement memoranda, notes, clippings, 1989Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
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Series 4. Freedom Legacy Project Records, 1995-2008.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Proposals, posters, flyers, signed petitions, notes, reports, membership lists, photographs, transparencies, news articles, Yonni Chapman's writings and correspondence, and other items related to the founding and development of the organization. There are also materials relating to the controversies surrounding the Silent Sam statue and Saunders Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
Materials relating to the Freedom Legacy Project can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
Folder 43-44
Folder 43Folder 44 |
Freedom Legacy Project organizational materials, 1995-2001 |
| Folder 45 |
Silent Sam statue controversy, 1997-2006Essays, letters to the editor, and several news articles authored by Yonni Chapman decrying the statue's presence on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and its glorification of slain Confederate Civil War soldiers. |
| Folder 46 |
Saunders Hall Project, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill building names and institutional racism, 1999-2008News articles, posters, flyers, Chapman's writings and correspondence, signed petitions, notes, and reports regarding the anti-Ku Klux Klan decoration of Saunders Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus organized by the Students Seeking Historical Truth in 1999, as well as the Freedom Legacy Project's campaign for a plaque to be added to the building to notify the public of Colonial William L. Saunders's involvement with the Klan. |
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Series 5. Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Records, 1969-2006.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Agendas, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, signed petitions, news articles, and other materials relating to the founding and development of the organization, the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award, and the 1969 Lenoir cafeteria workers' strike.
Materials relating to the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
| Folder 47 |
Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth organizational materials, 2005 |
| Folder 48 |
1969 Lenoir Cafeteria Workers' Strike commemoration plaque campaign, March 2005Signed petitions to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser. |
| Folder 49 |
1969 Lenoir Cafeteria Workers' Strike commemorations and history, 1969-2006Flyers, programs, speech transcripts, and notes regarding the first Mary Smith-Elizabeth Brooks Human Rights Awards that were presented to strike leaders Smith and Brooks in 2005. Also included are topical student essays and news articles. |
| Folder 50 |
"I Have My Story to Tell" 1969 Lenoir Cafeteria Workers' Strike, 1969-2000sNews articles, correspondence, an interview with strike leader Mary Smith, instructional documents regarding leadership and organizing, and playbills from a commemorative dramatic performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2000s. |
| Folder 51 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Organizing, 2002-2005 |
| Folder 52 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Outreach to past recipients, 2004Award programs and a packet adressed to past recipients compiled and written by Yonni Chapman that explains campaign principles, outlines the relevant history of the award and its namesake, and asks for the recipients' support and understanding. |
| Folder 53 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Call for moratorium petitions and correspondence with Chancellor James Moeser and signatories, 2004-2005 |
| Folder 54 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: White supremacy death threat against Yonni Chapman, 2004-2005Printed copies of a threating post to a white supremacy online forum, Chapman's letter to the police, and a published article about the issue. |
| Folder 55 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Yonni Chapman writings, 2004-2005Chapman's notes, articles, and essays regarding historical truth and the Bell Award. |
| Folder 56 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Spencie Love correspondence and writings, 1994-2005Correspondence between Spencie Love, the great-granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, and Yonni Chapman regarding Love's disapproval of Chapman's campaign. Also included are essays written by Love and articles concerning the history of Love's family. |
| Folder 57 |
Campaign for Justice and the Bell Award: Media and news articles, 2000-2006 |
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Series 6. Other Activities and Organizations, 1975-2009.
Arrangement: Chronological
Materials relating to other progressive activities with which Yonni Chapman was involved that do not appear to be directly associated with any of the organizations documented in the preceding series.
Materials include agendas, brochures, correspondence, flyers, mailing lists and sign up sheets, meeting minutes, news articles, newsletters, notes, organizational planning materials, petitions, proposals, reports, research materials, and writings that document a wide variety of environmental, economic, racial, and social justice efforts in central North Carolina. This includes Chapman's organizing work while a Hematology Laboratory Technician at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital; anti-apartheid campaigns; Chatham County Committee for Human Rights struggles; Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience presidential campaign work and local struggles; Chapman's work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); numerous African American public workers' struggles and lawsuits in which Chapman was involved, including those of the Black Public Works Association, Martha Barbee, and the Battle family; the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard renaming effort, in which Chapman was a key advocate and a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council's special committee; the People's Music Network, for which Chapman was a national board member from 1996 to 1999 and a member of the Winter 1996 Gathering planning committee; activism in support of Kwame Cannon, the son of a Greensboro-based Communist Workers Party activist, who received a lengthy prison sentence for burglary; Chapman's personal reflection and leadership involvement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Y; and numerous other commemorations, demonstrations, marches, and organizations on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and in the surrounding North Carolina municipalities of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Siler City, Durham, Raleigh, and Greensboro.
Materials relating to the activities, events, and organizations represented here can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
| Folder 330 |
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 1975, 1981Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 58 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital Hematology Lab personnel treatment struggle, 1976-1980Correspondence and memoranda between Hematology Laboratory employees and hospital management regarding treatment and expectations in the workplace. |
| Folder 59 |
National Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, 1977Meeting minutes of the Coalition Steering Committee. |
| Folder 293 |
African Liberation Support Committee, 1979Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 60 |
Committee for Medical Aid to Southern Africa, 1977-1978Organizational planning documents, correspondence, agendas, meeting minutes, flyers, and press releases. |
| Folder 61 |
Paul Braxton School campaign, Siler City, N.C., 1978Correspondence, notes, agendas, flyers, press releases, and articles regarding a campaign led by the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights. |
| Folder 62 |
Chatham County Committee for Human Rights, 1978-1979Organizational planning documents, meeting notes, agendas, flyers, posters, newsletters, and correspondence. |
| Folder 314 |
Iran, 1978, 1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 63 |
Stop the Test campaign, 1978-1979Correspondence, notes agendas, flyers, press releases, and articles regarding a campaign led by the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights. |
| Folder 306 |
Coalition for Quality Education, 1979Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 307-308 |
Education, 1978Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 326 |
Articles from Party of Labour of Albania, China, 1970sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 329 |
Progressive Labor Party, 1970sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
Folder 64-65
Folder 64Folder 65 |
Miscellaneous organizational mailing lists and sign-up sheets, circa 1978-1985 |
| Folder 328 |
Phillipines, 1978-1981Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 332 |
Granite Workers Update, ACTWU local 1113T Vol I No. 2, Vol II No. 1, 1978-1979Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 66 |
Kayser-Roth garment workers' strike, Pittsboro, N.C., 1979Flyers, notes, and articles regarding a campaign led by the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights. |
| Folder 315 |
Kayser-Roth struggle/Paul Braxton, early 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 67 |
Laurence Miller struggle and march, Pittsboro, N.C., 1979Correspondence, notes agendas, flyers, press releases, and articles regarding a campaign led by the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights. |
| Folder 331 |
Trade Union Educational League, 1979Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 68 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital Employees' Forum, Better Parking Lots Campaign, 1979Correspondence and memoranda between hematology laboratory workers and hospital management regarding poor and unsafe conditions in the hospital employee parking lots. |
| Folder 69 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital Delphine Foushee harassment grievance, 1979Petitions, correspondence, and articles regarding the hospital's lack of sensivity towards dietary worker Delphine Foushee, a grieving mother whose child had recently died. |
| Folder 322 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital protest, early 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 70 |
Public Housing Tenants' marches, 1979Flyers, an article, and a photograph of Chapel Hill Welfare Rights Organization members. |
| Folder 71 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital Dietary Workers' struggle, 1980Memoranda and flyers regarding rallies to organize dietary workers in opposition to workplace descrimination and unfair treatment. |
| Folder 72 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill housekeeping workers' struggle, 1980Petitions, articles, photographs and flyers regarding the organization of campus housekeeping workers against unfair workplace treatment. |
| Folder 73 |
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Coalition to Stop Unfair Budget Cuts, 1981Signed endorsement forms and Chapman's notes. |
| Folder 309 |
Coalition for Social Justice, 1981Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 321 |
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), 1981Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 310 |
El Salvador, 1981-1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 316 |
Lebanon, 1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 318 |
Media contact information, 1982Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 74 |
United Nations Disarmament march and rally, 1982Event flyers, rally permit, and articles. |
| Folder 317 |
March on Washington 20th anniversary, Chapel Hill, 27 August 1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 319 |
National Black Organizers' Conference (NBOC), 1983-1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 301 |
Capitalism and business study clippings, 1983-1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 312 |
Grenada, 1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 323 |
Nuclear issues, 1983Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 75 |
North Carolina Memorial Hospital Yonni Chapman grievance, 1983-1984Chapman's employee performance report, correspondence regarding the mandated change in his work schedule and the descrimination complaint that he lodged against his supervisor and the formal grievance papers that he filed. |
| Folder 324 |
Orange County Day Care Coalition, 1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 327 |
People's Convention DNC, 1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 294 |
American Committee on Africa newsletters, fact sheets, anti-apartheid organizing, 1984-1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 295 |
American Committee on Africa articles, memos, accounting of local government investments in South Africa, 1984-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 296 |
South Africa notes, publications, 1984-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 Includes UNC symposium schedule, 1985 |
| Folder 297 |
South Africa clippings, 1984-1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 298 |
Committee on Southern Africa releases, flyers, notes, clippings, 1983-1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 76 |
Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, 1984-1988Organizational documents, flyers, contact sheets, correspondence, meeting minutes, notes, and a proof sheet of images from a 1984 Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. |
| Folder 77 |
Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, Jesse Jackson presidential campaigns, 1984-1988Signed ad campaign donation cards, pledge sheets, contact sheets, articles, essays, memoranda, newsletters, and a map. |
| Folder 325 |
Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, 1985Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 333 |
National Rainbow Coalition, 1985-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 334 |
Rainbow Coalition: Congressional candidate Kirsten Nyrop, 1985-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 311 |
Freeze Voter canvassing, 1984Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 300 |
Advance Graphic, 1985-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 320 |
National Committee for Independent Political Action (NCIPA), 1985-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 303 |
Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County (N.C.) elections, 1985-1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 304 |
Local organizing lists of organizations and names, 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 305 |
Chatham County (N.C.) contact listAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 299 |
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 302 |
Carolina Community Project, 1986Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 78 |
Committee for Peace with Justice in South Africa, Durham, N.C., 1987Flyers and newsletters. |
Folder 79-80
Folder 79Folder 80 |
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Minority Achievement Gap, research and reports, 1987-2008Public school performance statistics and demographic reports, as well as correspondence and writings intended to address and mitigate the racially divided educational performance gap. |
| Folder 81 |
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Minority Achievement Gap, news articles |
| Folder 82 |
Progressive Folk Music materials, Si and Kathy Kahn, circa 1980sCollection of song lyrics and a handmade guide entitled "Mountain Music and Where to Find It." |
| Folder 313 |
Harvard strike reunion, 1989Acquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 341 |
Postering, 1980sAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 83 |
Internationalist Books, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1993-1996Flyers, newsletters, articles, and correspondence regarding Chapman's two-year management position and his concern with the general mission of the book store. |
| Folder 84 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Housekeepers Association lawsuit, 1993-1996Correspondence, legal documents, and reports to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor regarding housekeeping workers' claims of racial descrimination in the workplace. Also includes "Six Years of Struggle: A Documented History" packet, as well as Chapman's notes and writings concerning the history of slavery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Folder 85 |
Police brutality and profiling, 1993-2008Homicide Report of Kenneth Brian Fennell written by civil rights lawyer Al McSurely, an event flyer, and a letter from Yonni Chapman to the Chapel Hill Town Council concerning town-wide racial profiling. |
| Folder 86 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch, commemorating local heroes, 1993-2008Pamphlets and programs from memorial events honoring recently deceased community leaders. |
| Folder 87 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Martin Luther King Coalition, 1993-2009Event programs, flyers, organizational documents, agendas, planning materials, correspondence, contact sheets, news articles, and a transcript of Chapman's speech at a 2007 rally. |
Folder 88-89
Folder 88Folder 89 |
Environmental Justice for Landfill Neighbors and Rogers-Eubanks Road Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER), 1993-2008Pamphlets, articles, correspondence, petitions and a report on the history of the Rogers Road community and damage from the Orange County Municipal Landfill. |
| Folder 90 |
Black Workers for Justice, 1994-2002Newsletters and annual banquet programs. |
| Folder 91 |
Black Public Works Association racial discrimination grievance against the Town of Chapel Hill, 1995Legal correspondence, affidavits, memoranda, meeting notes, and reports. |
| Folder 92 |
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), 1995Newsletters, pamphlets, and a 1995 national conference program. |
| Folder 93 |
People's Music Network, 1995-1996Planning materials for the Winter 1996 Gathering held in Durham, N.C., as well as notes, meeting minutes, flyers, and articles. |
| Folder 94 |
Black Public Works Association, 1995-1997Organizational documents, flyers, internal correspondence, news articles, and drafts of essays written by Chapman. |
| Folder 95 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Housekeepers Association health concerns, 1995-1999"The Housekeepers Health Study," a 1999 report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Folder 96 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Workers Solidarity Coalition and housekeepers support, 1995-2005Event flyers, proposals, and press statements concerning workers' rights. Also included are Chapman's correspondence within the Workers' Solidarity Coalition regarding planning meetings and news articles documenting the struggles of workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Folder 97 |
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, 1995-2004Initial proposal for the Center, programs, and newsletters. |
| Folder 98 |
K-Mart boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Greensboro, N.C., 1996Flyers, articles, and a bumper sticker. |
| Folder 99 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Housekeepers Association, A Modest Proposal to Chancellor Michael Hooker, and Marsha Tinnen lawsuit, 1996 |
| Folder 100 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Y, 1996-2000Notes, correspondence, and applications chiefly regarding board member Yonni Chapman's unsuccessful run for director. Materials highlight Chapman's skills, personal philosophies, and motivations. |
| Folder 101 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch, 1996-2009Meeting agendas, minutes and notes. |
| Folder 102 |
Martha Barbee disability discrimination lawsuit against the Town of Chapel Hill, N.C., 1997-1999Legal documents, a complaint form, and correspondence documenting the development of Barbee's lawsuit and Chapman's assistance with the historical investigative work surrounding her grievance. |
| Folder 103 |
Free Kwame Cannon and April 4th Survival Coalition, Raleigh, N.C., 1998Rally planning correspondence, notes, flyers, and articles. |
| Folder 104 |
Jobs with Justice Coalition, 1998-1999Organizational documents, meeting notes and minutes, event flyers, and correspondence regarding Durham, N.C., workers' rights struggles. |
| Folder 105 |
Jubilee 2000, Greensboro, N.C., 1998-1999Flyers, notes, and packets of organizational principles and concerns regarding African-American youth and the criminal justice system. |
| Folder 106 |
Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN), Durham, N.C., 1998-2000Correspondence, newsletters, a history of SARN, anti-white-supremacy workshop materials, Highlander Conference materials, and photographs of Chapman at the Highlander Conference in June 1999. |
| Folder 107 |
North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (UE 150), and International Worker Justice Campaign, 1998-2004Union bulletins, event flyers, information packets, and news articles. |
| Folder 108 |
Chatham County Schools Minority Discrimination lawsuit, 1999Case report, proposals, and articles. |
| Folder 109 |
Free Mumia Abu Jamal campaign, 1999Correspondence, Chapel Hill High School student petitions, flyers, and articles relating to Durham, N.C., organizing and a Philadelphia, Pa., march. |
| Folder 110 |
Stone Quarry environmental struggle, 1999Map and documents offering an historical background of Stone Quarry. |
| Folder 111 |
Students for Economic Justice, 1999Event flyers, pamphlets, statements of principles, and topical articles. |
| Folder 112 |
Tuition Increase at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999Correspondence from the Coalition for Educational Access, a statement by the Progressive Faculty Network opposing the tuition increase, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus news articles. |
| Folder 113 |
World Trade Organization (WTO) Protest, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1999Correspondence and flyers in opposition to the WTO's practices and laws. |
| Folder 114 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sit-in Against Sweatshops video log, 1999Chapman's notes and writings that detail the activities of a five-day anti-sweatshop protest at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on student protest leader Marion Traub-Werner. See VT-5441/25-30 for footage that Chapman captured during the event. |
| Folder 115 |
No Sweat! Anti-Sweatshop Campaign, 1999-2000Flyers, notes, proposals, agendas, campaign planning materials, and correspondence between various social justice organizations. Also included is a step-by-step guide for organizing an anti-sweatshop ordinance campaign. |
| Folder 116 |
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 2000-2003Newsletters, flyers, correspondence, and other organizational materials. |
| Folder 117 |
North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, 2001-2003Pamphlets, flyers, and a project summary. |
| Folder 118 |
Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School, 2002Correspondence and research materials concerning the presentation that Chapman gave during this event. |
| Folder 119 |
Battle family property discrimination lawsuit, 2003-2004Case reports, historical case research, articles, and a sheet of Chapman's prompts during his testimony at the hearing. |
| Folder 120 |
Unsung Founders Memorial, 2003-2006Correspondence and articles regarding the development and controversy surrounding the 2002 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior class gift. |
Folder 121-122
Folder 121Folder 122 |
Remembering Reconstruction symposium, 2004Correspondence, agendas, and symposium planning notes, as well as Chapman's speech notes, drafts, and final speech. |
Folder 123-124
Folder 123Folder 124 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard renaming effort, 2004-2005Proposals, reports, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, and articles that appear to present both sides of the renaming and dedication effort. |
| Folder 125 |
George Moses Horton dedications, 2006-2007North Carolina highway historical marker dedication ceremony pamphlet and news articles. |
| Folder 126 |
B-1 United States Navy band 65th Anniversary, 2007Program of the reunion of the first African American World War II Navy band, which was stationed in Chapel Hill, N.C. |
| Folder 127 |
Community Civil Rights Educator Program, 2007Correspondence and Chapman's Orange County Community Civil Rights Educator certificate. |
| Folder 128 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Historic Thousands on Jones Street rally and march, Raleigh, N.C., 2007Photographs, a flyer, and a reform legislation packet. |
| Folder 129 |
Warren County PCB Landfill effort, 2007-2008Notes and articles regarding the landfill's history. |
Folder 130-131
Folder 130Folder 131 |
Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 Freedom Ride State Historical Marker dedication, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2007-2009Planning documents, reports, proposals, correspondence, historical research and articles, and a transcript of Chapman's presentation and proposal to the Chapel Hill Town Council as chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP Historical Commission. |
| Folder 132 |
Chapel Hill Town Council Sustainability Committee, 2008Correspondence and notes regarding Chapman's appointment to the Chapel Hill Town Council Sustainability Committee. |
| Folder 133 |
Peace and Justice Plaza, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Chapel Hill, N.C., 2009Event flyers, planning correspondence and agendas, and a transcript of Chapman's speech at the Plaza during a commemoration of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. |
| Folder 134 |
African American workers' struggles and history, Edgecombe County, N.C.Pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, articles from a 1977 Workers' Viewpoint Organization newspaper regarding the struggles and racial violence at Bloomer Hill, the Bricks Center, and Whitakers, N.C. Also included is correspondence with Jim Wrenn, a local community organizer and Greensboro Massacre survivor. |
| Folder 292 |
AANQ study materialsAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 335-336 |
ClippingsAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 337 |
Flyers for various rallies and protestsAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 338 |
Miscellaneous pamphletsAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
| Folder 339-340 |
Miscellaneous printed materialAcquisitions Information: Accession 103412 |
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Series 7. Academic Research, Writings, and Interviews, 1974-2005.
Research, writings, and interviews relating to Yonni Chapman's graduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The first subseries contains audio recordings and paper transcripts of interviews conducted by Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. The second subseries contains Chapman's research files that he incorporated into his masters thesis and doctoral dissertation. This includes his research and writings on Cornelia Phillips Spencer and the Bell Award; coursework, essays, resumes, transcripts, and writings that reflect his personal philosophies; and a number of annotated transcripts of interviews conducted in 1974 as part of the Duke University Oral History Program.
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Subseries 7.1. Chapel Hill, N.C., Civil Rights Movement Interviews, 1990-1996.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Yonni Chapman with participants in the African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. Many interviews include transcriptions, but some do not. There are also a few interview transcriptions for which the audio is not included.
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Subseries 7.2. Research Files and Writings, 1974-2005.
Research, essays, and interviews that Yonni Chapman incorporated into his masters thesis and doctoral dissertation, including files on Cornelia Phillips Spencer and the Bell Award; coursework, essays, resumes, transcripts, and writings that reflect his personal philosophies; and a number of annotated transcripts of interviews conducted in 1974 as part of the Duke University Oral History Program. As with Chapman's own series of interviews in the 1990s, these interviewees were participants in the civil rights movement in and around Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Series 8. Photographs of Demonstrations, Meetings, and Events, 1975-2007.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Photographic slides, photographic negatives, prints, and digital photographs that document various demonstrations, meetings, speeches, and events in which Yonni Chapman was involved. Photographs were chiefly taken by Chapman and depict events and organizations in the central North Carolina region, including the Medical Committee for Human Rights, a national organization of radical health workers with active local groups in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Durham, N.C.; the African Liberation and anti-apartheid movements; the Communist Workers Party; the Federation for Progress; Greensboro Massacre commemorative events; Anti-Klan rallies; Wilmington Ten demonstrations; the Chatham County Committee for Human Rights; North Carolina Memorial Hospital organizing; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill housekeepers and other service workers' organizing; Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and rallies; anti-sweatshop campaigns; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus activism; workers' rights activism; the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award controversy; and other progressive social, racial, and economic activism. There are also scanned images of photographs, newspaper clippings, pamplets, and other materials related to the Journey of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill, N.C., and scanned photographs of 1960s civil rights demonstrations collected by Yonni Chapman.
For the most part, original file folder titles have been retained.
Materials relating to the activities, events, and organizations represented here can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
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Series 9. Video of Demonstrations, Meetings, and Events, 1983-2009, and undated.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Video material documenting various demonstrations, meetings, speeches, and historical events in which Yonni Chapman was involved. Most videos were filmed and edited by Chapman and chiefly document events in central North Carolina. Materials include VHS cassette tapes, Video8 8mm cassette tapes, Video Hi8 8mm cassette tapes, digital video, and Windows audio. There are also documentaries about the Greensboro Massacre and the 1969 cafeteria workers' strike at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Processing information: For the most part, original video titles have been retained. Descriptions include formats of videotape when known. Materials relating to the activities, events, and organizations represented here can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them. Select videotapes (VT-5441/8, VT-5441/43, VT-5441/55) found in this series document the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party's 3 November 1979 attack on Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators in Greensboro, N.C. These videotapes, which document the moments leading up to, including and after the shooting, include footage of death and blood.
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Series 10. Audio Recordings of Speeches, Meetings, and Events, 1978-2005 and undated.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Audio recordings of speeches, meetings, and events in central North Carolina where Yonni Chapman was involved. All material appears to have been recorded by Chapman.
For the most part, original audio titles have been retained.
Materials relating to the activities, events, and organizations represented here can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
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Series 11. Posters, T-shirts, and Banner, circa 1976-2005.
Posters, banners, signs, and screen-printed t-shirts designed and used by Yonni Chapman at various demonstrations throughout central North Carolina, including posters advertising the anti-Klan rally that would later be known as the Greensboro Massacre; Greensboro Massacre commemorative and informational posters; African Liberation Day posters; and a variety of other political and social signs, banners and shirts related to the activities of the Black Public Works Association, the Freedom Legacy Project, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Federation for Progress, the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, and the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award controversy.
Materials relating to the activities, events, and organizations represented here can be found in other series in this collection. Researchers should check all series to be sure that they have identified all files of interest to them.
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/1 |
Death to the Klan march posters, Greensboro, N.C., 3 November 1979Two posters that advertise the rally that would later be known as the Greensboro Massacre. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/2 |
Printed posters commemorating the CWP-5 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/3 |
Handmade posters related to the Greensboro Massacre and the CWP-5 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/4 |
Communist Workers Party and Workers Viewpoint Organization handmade informational postersTwo posters that were possibly used for instructional purposes regarding the history of the two organizations. The posters chiefly display news clippings and photographs. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/5 |
African Liberation Support Committee and African Liberation Day printed posters, circa 1976-1980 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/6 |
Federation for Progress and Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience handmade posters, 1980sFive chiefly political posters with topics that include an anti-Bush and Cobey demonstration in Raleigh, N.C., and the Dump Jesse Helms campaign. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/7 |
Political and social demonstration posters, circa 1976-1986Poster topics include Communist Workers Party-sponsored Jesse Jackson presidential campaign speeches by Nelson Johnson and Phil Thompson; a 1976 National March for Human and Labor Rights in Raleigh, N.C.; a Ronald Reagan presidential inauguration protest; nuclear disarmament; and the Mount Olive Pickles boycott. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/8 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-related demonstration posters, circa 1995-2005Five posters related to the Black Public Works Association, the Freedom Legacy Project, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Bell Award controversy, and anti-sweatshop campaigns. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5441/9 |
Posters, 1980sAccession 103412 |
| Box 27 |
T-shirts, 1980sScreen-printed by Yonni Chapman. Included are a Federation for Progress Dump Jesse Helms t-shirt; a Federation for Progress Jobs, Peace, Equality t-shirt; a Jesse Jackson 1984 presidential campaign t-shirt; a First Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday t-shirt, 20 January 1986. |
| Box 19 |
Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience banner |
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Series 12. External Hard Drive Files, circa 2004-2005.
Arrangement: Original order has, for the most part, been maintained. Files not in folders were grouped into Digital Folder 36
Chiefly documents and some images relating to Yonni Chapman's social advocacy in Chapel Hill and the surrounding area.
Received at the repository on data compact disk with the label "Political files from hard drive." Yonni Chapman's original folder and file titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Series 13. Laptop Files, circa 2008-2009.
Arrangement: Original order has, for the most part, been maintained. Files not in folders were grouped into Digital Folder 7
Files from Yonni Chapman's laptop computer primarily relating to social justice organizing and to his illness.
Chapman's original folder and file titles have, for the most part, been retained.
| Digital Folder DF-5441/4 |
3 November: 30th anniversary |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/5 |
History Committee Study Group |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/6 |
Legacy project, June 2009 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/7 |
Loose papers from laptopFiles arrived at repository not associated with an existing folder. Included are Yonni Chapman's notes on a conversation he had with Greensboro Massacre survivor Signe Waller (Signe12.06.2008.doc). |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/8 |
Miscellaneous political, 2009 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/9 |
Miscellaneous research, 2009 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/10 |
Peace and Justice Plaza |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/11 |
PersonalIncludes a series of emails by Sandi Chapman copied into a Word document informing family and friends about the progress of his disease (Yonni's Folks-email about disease.docx). |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/12 |
Political |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/13 |
Rebekah Cowell interviews and writing |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/14 |
Chapel Hill Sustainability Committee |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/15 |
Truth to Power Study Group Library |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/16 |
Turning the cornerIncludes a short journal kept by Yonni Chapman during the last year of his life (Journal feb-march, 2009.doc). |
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Series 14. Voice Recorder Audio Files, 2009.
Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.
Audio files recorded by Yonni Chapman on a digital voice recorder in the year leading up to his death. Recordings are political and personal in nature. There are a group of recordings from September and October 2009 recorded while Chapman was in home hospice care. These contain lenghty sessions with Chapman and several local activists in which they speak about continuing Chapman's political vision after his death. Speakers include Tim Tyson, Nancy McDurmott, Kerry Taylor, Supeinda Keith, Al McSurely, Rebekah Cowell, and Hayumi Higuchi.
Received at the repository on data compact disk. Yonni Chapman's original folder and file titles have, for the most part, been retained.
| Digital Folder DF-5441/1 |
PersonalIncludes interviews with Yonni Chapman by Rebekah Cowell, Sandi Chapman, and others; a partial autobiography; children's stories read aloud for his unborn grandchild; and monologues reflecting on his illness. |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/2 |
PoliticalIncludes recordings of political planning meetings and conversations about politics. |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/3 |
Downloaded after Yonni Chapman's deathFiles from September and October 2009 recorded while Chapman was in home hospice care. These contain lenghty sessions with Chapman and several local activists in which they speak about continuing Chapman's political vision after his death. Speakers include Tim Tyson, Nancy McDurmott, Kerry Taylor, Supeinda Keith, Al McSurely, Rebekah Cowell, and Hayumi Higuchi. |
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Series 15. Memorial Service, 2009.
Audio recordings and a video photograph montage from Yonni Chapman's 2009 memorial service.
| Digital Folder DF-5441/50 |
Memorial service: Audio and video files, 2009 |
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Series 16. Personal photographs, 1945-2009.
Born-digital photographs and scans of photographs of Yonni Chapman with friends and family including portraits of Chapman as a child through adulthood. Also included are photographs of nature scenes taken by Chapman.
Received at the repository on compact disc. Original file titles have been maintained; images were sorted into folders at the repository.
| Digital Folder DF-5441/20 |
Photographs of Yonni Chapman, circa 1947-1980s |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/21 |
Photographs of Yonni Chapman, circa 1990s-2009 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/22 |
Photographs of Yonni Chapman with family and friends, various dates |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/23 |
"Yonni and the 330 crew," circa 2005 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/24 |
Yonni Chapman and his dissertation committee, 2006 |
| Digital Folder DF-5441/25 |
Photographs by Yonni Chapman, various dates |
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