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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | Scattered materials documenting the Civil Rights movement in the American South, chiefly 1966-1969, collected by Wayne Hurder, a white man of Raleigh, N.C., then a student at the University of North Carolina who worked as the Selma, Ala. bureau chief for a weekly newspaper in the summer of 1966 and was involved in providing support to the Civil Rights movement on campus when he returned to school. 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. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection. |
Creator | Hurder, Wayne, 1947- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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
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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.
Back to TopScattered 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.
Back to TopArrangement: alphabetical by folder title