THE STUDENTS AND THE BAN
Bill Friday ’ 48 (LLB), president of what
was then the Consolidated University,
learned by phone call from a staff member
based at the state Capitol, who said, “You
better get down here. They’re about to do
something you’re not going to like.”
On June 25, 1963, House Bill 1395 was
one of the last measures to be handled by
the N.C. General Assembly before recess.
Despite protests from at least one legislator
that the act abridged individual rights
under the First Amendment,
within an hour, the Speaker
Ban was law. Without warning,
University administrators found
themselves looking down the
barrel of the most direct assault
on their independence they’d
ever known.
Greenbacker ’ 67
McSween ’ 68
Medford ’ 67
Milton ’ 66
JOCK LAUTERER ’ 67
Dickson ’ 66
PHOTOS FROM YACKETY YACK, 1966, 1967, 1968
McCrary ’ 66
Powell ’ 67
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