Tar Heel Antifa: This Date in History

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[Icky Mettle]

How quaint.

 

[donbosco]

OTD in 1969 Malcolm X Liberation University opened in Durham. #Dook students had protested the lack of AFAM Studies-Activist Howard Fuller led the founding. Durham’s Malcolm X Liberation University

“The stated mission of the radical new university was to provide an ideological and practical methodology for meeting the physical, social, psychological, economical and culture needs of black people as well as to provide an alternate to institutionalized racism in education.”
Malcolm X Liberation University - Empowerment Through History and Learning | Durham Civil and Human Rights Map

MXLU MOVED TO Greensboro after a year in Durham & closed before graduating any students. It was a bold, and for the times, radical, experiment. Universities had no African American Studies in their curriculums in those dayls. MXLU no doubt was key in striking blows against that ignorance.

 

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[donbosco]

This New Yorker is among my Top Ten Tar Heel Anti-Fascists. Modern imaginings might cause one to take a look at his photo portrait and think Right-Winger but that would be a dead wrong reckoning. George Watts Hill was raised in money and key institutions in N.C. like The Carolina Inn, UNC Press, Watts Hospital, Hill Hall at UNC, and The George Watts Hill Alumni Center have associations with his family. Born in 1901 he graduated UNC IN 1921 and earned a law degree in 1924. Observing the rise of fascism around the world in the late 1930s into the ‘40s, Hill, worked to spur an isolationist USA to recognize the dire threat of Nazism and Mussolini’s Italy as well as homegrown rightists like the America First Committee in this country. Past combat age as the US entered WWII in 1941, Hill nevertheless served in intelligence gathering with the group that would develop into the OSS.

After his service fighting the rising tide of fascism in Europe Hill opposed similar views at home with his strong opposition to the N.C. General Assembly’s Speaker Ban, a railroaded-in law meant to shutdown Free Speech on the campuses of UNC System schools and otherwise squelch anything but Patriotically Correct instruction, writing, and research at Carolina. An anti-fascist dedication to racial justice led to his early advocacy of desegregation in public accommodations. Hill also supported the creation and expansion of education for children with learning disabilities. (There are two links at the conclusion here where you can learn more)

#OTD (Oct. 27) in 1901 George Watts Hill was born in NYC to a prosperous family with deep North Carolina roots. A UNC Undergraduate and Law Graduate, he came early to the fight against fascism and was a key officer in The Office of Strategic Services. Later he stood vs the Speaker Ban and Segregation. The Alumni Center @UNC bears his name. George Watts Hill, Tar Heel in Cloak



A Tar Heel in Cloak: George Watts Hill, Interventionism, and the Shadow War Against Hitler - North Carolina History (And yes-I know the provenance of this site -I find irony in this)



Vote like George Watts Hill was your mentor.

 

[Zoo_View]

This New Yorker is among my Top Ten Tar Heel Anti-Fascists. Modern imaginings might cause one to take a look at his photo portrait and think Right-Winger but that would be a dead wrong reckoning. George Watts Hill was raised in money and key institutions in N.C. like The Carolina Inn, UNC Press, Watts Hospital, Hill Hall at UNC, and The George Watts Hill Alumni Center have associations with his family. Born in 1901 he graduated UNC IN 1921 and earned a law degree in 1924. Observing the rise of fascism around the world in the late 1930s into the ‘40s, Hill, worked to spur an isolationist USA to recognize the dire threat of Nazism and Mussolini’s Italy as well as homegrown rightists like the America First Committee in this country. Past combat age as the US entered WWII in 1941, Hill nevertheless served in intelligence gathering with the group that would develop into the OSS.

After his service fighting the rising tide of fascism in Europe Hill opposed similar views at home with his strong opposition to the N.C. General Assembly’s Speaker Ban, a railroaded-in law meant to shutdown Free Speech on the campuses of UNC System schools and otherwise squelch anything but Patriotically Correct instruction, writing, and research at Carolina. An anti-fascist dedication to racial justice led to his early advocacy of desegregation in public accommodations. Hill also supported the creation and expansion of education for children with learning disabilities. (There are two links at the conclusion here where you can learn more)

#OTD (Oct. 27) in 1901 George Watts Hill was born in NYC to a prosperous family with deep North Carolina roots. A UNC Undergraduate and Law Graduate, he came early to the fight against fascism and was a key officer in The Office of Strategic Services. Later he stood vs the Speaker Ban and Segregation. The Alumni Center @UNC bears his name. George Watts Hill, Tar Heel in Cloak



A Tar Heel in Cloak: George Watts Hill, Interventionism, and the Shadow War Against Hitler - North Carolina History (And yes-I know the provenance of this site -I find irony in this)



Vote like George Watts Hill was your mentor.

One other thing George Watts Hill did was donate his home to UNC. It’s now the Chancellor’s Residence. Its driveway is at the bottom of Raleigh Road just before one gets to the former UNC System Headquarters, the Spangler Complex. Those buildings now house the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.

Now that the UNC System is located in Raleigh, I hope the UNC President’s House will become the Chancellor’s Residence (after the right-wing d00kie is no longer chancellor).

Despite his being born in NYC, I struggle to call Mr. Hill a New Yorker. His parents were long-time North Carolinians and moved back to Durham in 1903 when GWH wasn’t quite two.

One of Mr. Hill’s stepdaughters called Mr. Hill “Major.” I never knew why. Now I do. Definitely antifa!

 

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Addendum

"Hill Learning Center was established in 1977 in Durham, North Carolina as the Learning Development Center (LDC), with a mission to provide an intensive remediation program for students with specific learning disabilities or attention deficit disorders. Originally established as a program of nearby Durham Academy, in 1980 the Center was dedicated to founder George Watts Hill and renamed the Hill Learning Development Center (HLDC). The name was shortened to The Hill Center in 1996. In the 2017-18 school year Hill celebrated its 40th Anniversary and in the fall of 2018 The Hill Center name was changed to Hill Learning Center."

https://www.hillcenter.org/about/