Alumni reflect on activism, past and present, at UNC

Posted Jun 2, 2017
Charles Jeffress, a 1970 graduate, he was involved with Black Student Movement, the “Dump Johnson” campaign to unseat then-President Lyndon B. Johnson and the anti-war campaign. “A significant percentage of students on campus were sympathetic to the anti-war movement,” Jeffress said. “We at Carolina hosted speakers who talked about the war and the injustices of that war." (Daily Tar Heel)

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