Local Lore: Chapel Hill
Civil Rights History
SEIU!
NC Labor History
Labor in the Arts
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This nickname is derived from a 19th-century process for shipbuilding.
What are the “Tar Heels”?
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Civil Rights icon, who came out to support the Memphis sanitation strike.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
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The current President and Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU.
Who are April Verrett and Rocío Sáenz?
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The cash crop that was threatened in Winston-Salem, NC, when workers crossed color lines.
What is tobacco?
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This cartoon icon has come to represent women in the trades/workplace.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
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UNC is one of three universities that claim this title.
What is the title/claim of “Oldest Public University in the United States?
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These laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
What are “Jim Crow” laws?
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The sectors SEIU is known for organizing across.
What are healthcare, public services, and property services?
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Movie inspired by a union action by a textile worker in Roanoke Rapids, NC.
What is “Norma Rae”?
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The song that was inspired by the conflict between miners and coal operators in Harlan County, KY
What is "Which Side Are You On?" by Florence Reece
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NC.
Who are the major employers in Chapel Hill?
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African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter. The sit-in movement soon spread, but started in this NC town.
Where is Greensboro, NC?
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The acclaimed movie of the same name, which was inspired by a movement of women office workers.
What is 9to5?
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Campaign to unionize (textile) workers in the South.
What is Operation Dixie?
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The next line of this song:
"They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn"
What is:
"But without our brain and muscle not, a single wheel can turn"?
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This year was when the first freedom ride commenced, with a stop in Chapel Hill.
What is 1947?
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Peaceful march with the main purpose of forcing civil rights legislation and establishing job equality for everyone.
What is the March on Washington (1963)?
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This is the year the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU) renamed itself to the Service Employees International Union to reflect its diversifying membership.
What is 1968?
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The focus of photographer Lewis Hines’ most well-known series, that brought an important labor issue to the forefront.
What is child labor? 
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The Statewide digitization and digital publishing organization that is housed at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library.
What is the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center?
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A protest march in Alabama that turned violent in March 1965.
What is Bloody Sunday?
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Forerunner union of SEIU.
What is the Chicago Flat Janitor's Union?
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Public boycott against this company led to the largest collective bargaining agreement in North Carolina in 2004.
What is Mt. Olive Pickle?
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This 1987 film depicts Black and Italian miners struggling to form a union in West Virginia.
What is Matewan?