This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

After being denied an opportunity to speak in Durham, Malcolm X visited the University's campus and participated in a public meeting with Durham lawyer Floyd McKissick. A crowd of approximately 1600 attended the event at Memorial Hall.

The organizational meeting of the Committee for Open Business (COB) was held at the St. Joseph A. M. E. Church on Chapel Hill's West Rosemary Street. Organized by University student Pat Cusick, who also chaired the Student Peach Union, the multi-racial group of students, townspeople, and University faculty and staff picketed local businesses that refused to serve African Americans.

Just before the end of its current session, the General Assembly voted on and passed the controversial Speaker Ban Law.

Following its hurried push through last days of the General Assembly session, the Speaker Ban Law was enrolled.

This day’s Daily Tar Heel issue contains the headline, “UNC to get Phone Number.” As a part of the new “Centrex System,” the University received its first phone number for the University as a whole—not just departments and other units.

Former professor and dean of the School of Law Maurice Taylor Van Hecke died in Chapel Hill.

Archibald Henderson, Kenan Professor of Mathematics and campus historian, died in Chapel Hill.