Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Daily Tar Heel Records #40148, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College student newspapers and periodicals--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Duke, David Ernest.
• Freedom of speech--North Carolina.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• North Carolina--Race relations.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Newspapers.

In January 1975, David Ernest Duke, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, spoke at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His speech was disrupted by members of the campus Black Student Movement. Duke's statement about the disruption of his speech appeared in the Daily Tar Heel, the campus student newspaper.

The collection is the statement by David Duke that was carried in the Daily Tar Heel concerning the disruption of his speech in 1975 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in which he raised questions about the suppression of civil liberties, freedom of speech, and college students' maturity and ability to make their own judgments.