The historical impact of Chapel Hill's Peace and Justice Plaza

Posted Apr 13, 2025
In March 1964, civil rights activists James Foushee, John Dunne, LaVert Taylor and Patrick Cusick spent eight days on the lawn of the Franklin Street Post Office consuming nothing but water and cigarettes. The four wrote they were holding a hunger strike to demand Chapel Hill public officials pass a Public Accommodations Ordinance. (Daily Tar Heel)

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