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[Identification of item], in the Genna Rae McNeil Papers #70137, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Genna Rae McNeil in September 2022 (Acc. 20220908.1).

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• African American scholars.
• African American women college teachers.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--21st century.
• McNeil, Genna Rae.
• Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
• UNC Housekeepers Association.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of African American Research.

Genna Rae McNeil, a professor specializing in African American History with an emphasis on race, law and social movements, was the first Black tenure-track faculty member in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joining the department in 1974. McNeil retired following the Spring 2021 semester.

Additional information about Genna Rae McNeil is available from The Daily Tar Heel.

Contains correspondence, reports, teaching materials and other records documenting Genna Rae McNeil's teaching and committee service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the l970s through the 2020s. Materials pertaining to McNeil's university service include her work on the Institute of African American Research, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the African American History Month Lecture, and other campus organizations and committees. Files documenting McNeil's teaching include syllabi and course packets. The collection also contains records of collective action taken by housekeepers against the university in the early 1990s.

• Audiocassette (C-70137/1)