“It is ironic that a few centuries ago, the universities had to free themselves from repressive church control. Now, we are refugees from a repressive university.”

-- Gary Waller of Students for a Democratic Society, introducing Herbert Aptheker at Chapel Hill’s Community Church March 9, 1966

 

Source: William J. Billingsley, Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.