More Than Just Dates and Events
“You don’t have to be famous for your life to be history.”
“You don’t have to be famous for your life to be history.”
In 1969, hundreds of food workers, in collaboration with the Black Student Movement, protested labor policies in Carolina’s dining halls through strikes that lasted nearly 60 days. In 2017, undergraduates Sydney Lopez ’20 and Liv Linn ’18 turned to the past during their internships at the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), diving into the rich trove of interviews in the SOHP database, to tell the story of the strikes through the voices of those who experienced them. And in the process, they came to appreciate the SOHP tag line — “You don’t have to be famous for your life to be history.”
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This is story number 31 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.
