Project Guide: "Print Culture of the Southern Freedom Movement": Selections by Source Collection

Bob Hall

Bob Hall (1944-) has been an activist in North Carolina since the early 1970s. Hall's collection in the Southern Historical Collection documents his investigative research and grassroots organizing work for the Institute for Southern Studies and Democracy North Carolina, and many other activities. Topics covered in the collection include North Carolina politics; economic justice; voting rights; campaign finance and election reform; hog and poultry farming; military bases in the South; labor organizing; workplace health and safety; and many other subjects.

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North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health (NCOSH)

The North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH) is a private, nonprofit membership organization of workers, union locals, and health and legal professionals that offers training and education relating to toxic chemicals, safety hazards, stress, video display terminals (VDTs), repetitive motion, reproductive hazards, workers' compensation, and other issues.

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Greensboro Civil Rights Fund

On 3 November 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party attacked Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators as they gathered for a public march in Greensboro, N.C. Five CWP members were killed and eleven others were injured. The Greensboro Civil Rights Fund (GCRF) was organized by the families and friends of the deceased CWP members and raised about $700,000 to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, the Greensboro Police Department, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF).

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John "Yonni" Chapman

John Kenyon Chapman (1947-2009), known as Yonni, was a 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 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 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an action that opened a dialogue about the history of slavery and racism on campus.

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Anne Queen

Anne Queen was born in 1911 and raised in Canton, N.C. After ten years of factory work after high school, she earned a bachelor's degree at Berea College in Kentucky and a divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School in 1948. She worked for three years as assistant university chaplain at the University of Georgia and for five years as college secretary for the American Friends Service Committee in Greensboro, N.C. She became associate director of the YWCA at the University of North Carolina in 1956, and then director of the newly merged YMCA-YWCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964, a position she retained until her retirement in 1975.

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