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[Identification of item], in the David Schenck Papers #5559, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David Schenck in March 2013 (Acc. 101764) and August 2015 (Acc. 102296).

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• Berry, Thomas, 1914-2009.
• Schenck, David, 1951-
• Social action--Southern States.
• Social justice--Southern States.

David Schenck (1951- ) is a white poet, bioethicist, and social justice advocate originally from Greensboro, N.C. A former religion and philsophy professor and a former director of the Ethics Program at the Medical University of South Carolina, Schecnk has also served as the founding executive director of a free medical clinic, as a counselor and healthcare advocate for the homeless, and as a consultant to community-based nonprofit organizations in the Southeast. He is the son of David Schenck (1927-1970), who was mayor of Greensboro from 1961 to 1965, and the great-great-grandson of David Schenck (1835-1902), a North Carolina judge.

Materials in this collection include include audio recordings of poetry readings; offprints of his scholarly articles; newspaper clippings many containing letters he wrote to the editor; printed items including publications of his poetry; and subject files. These files reflect Schenck's interests and social justice activism. Topics include the Green River Oral History Project, the Affordable Housing Coalition in Asheville, N.C.; St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg, S.C.; a 1996 anti-gay rights resolution passed by the Spartanburg County Council in South Carolina; and the 1960s Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and historian William Chafe, the author of Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. There are also essays, correspondence, memorials and tributes, and other publications pertaining to Thomas Berry (1914-2009), a white Catholic priest known for his teachings about ecology, environment and spirituality.

• Compact discs (CD-05559/1-6)