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[Identification of item], in the Lester J. Levine Collection #70166-z, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Lester J. Levine in August 2023 (Acc. 20230920.1).

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• Baez, Joan.
• Bikel, Theodore.
• Donovan, 1946-
• Dylan, Bob, 1941-
• Jubilee (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
• Levine, Lester J., 1946-
• Musicians--Photographs.
• Newport Folk Festival.
• Tyson, Ian, 1933 September 25-2022.
• Tyson, Sylvia, 1940-
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History--20th century.

Lester J. Levine is a white writer, entrepreneur, and business consultant. He is the founder of CommonGoodGov, a non-partisan, non-ideological network. Levine graduated with a M.Ed. in Human Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is the author of the book 9/11 Memorial Visions.

Contains concert and festival ephemera, Newport Folk Festival photographs, photographs and newspaper clippings documenting events in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a memorial service program and newspaper documenting the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert and festival ephemera includes three concert ticket stubs: Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I., 26 July 1964; Joan Baez at Wait Chapel in Winston-Salem, N.C., 12 March 1965; and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C., 19 March 1965. Also includes a flyer for Joan Baez and Bob Dylan In Concert, 19 March 1965; an autographed festival program for the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; a reprint of "The Folk Scene" issue of Cavalier, July 1965; a program for the American Folk Festival at the Asheville Auditorium, Asheville, N.C., 25 June 1963; a concert program for "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Celebration of Songwriting and Singing," presented by WHYY-FM and Sing Out!, featuring Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and others, 22 May 1994; and a program for the 1970 Jubilee Music Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as photographs taken at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival workshops. Individuals photographed include musicians Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, and Theodore Bikel. There are also 24 photographs, circa 1966, taken in Chapel Hill, N.C., including images of a "Beat Duke" parade, an art festival, the Jubilee music festival, and the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue. Newspaper clippings document an outdoor fire sale at the Chapel Hill record store Kemp's and a clipping from the Newport Daily News relating to the Newport Folk Festival, 1964. There is also an issue of the Daily Tar Heel about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the headline "KING KILLED," 5 April 1968, as well as a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial service program, 7 April 1968. The memorial service was organized by the Ministerial Alliance for the Chapel Hill Community, 7 April 1968. Materials range in date from 1964 to 1994, with most materials dating from 1964 to 1970.

• Oversize Papers (OPF-70166/1)
• Photographs (PF-70166/1-2)