UNC Story Archive recording with Ken Sherrill: The Story of Us2 items
Date Deposited: 2022-04-05
Collection: UNC Story Archive (70096)
Collection Number: 70096
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70096/
During a remote recording session, Ken Sherrill (PhD Political Science, Class of 1970), reflects on his experiences in Chapel Hill in the late 1960s. As a gay student and activist, Ken marched in civil rights protests and visited gay bars in the Chapel Hill area. Ken recounts his upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, and his coming out experience. He... Read more
During a remote recording session, Ken Sherrill (PhD Political Science, Class of 1970), reflects on his experiences in Chapel Hill in the late 1960s. As a gay student and activist, Ken marched in civil rights protests and visited gay bars in the Chapel Hill area. Ken recounts his upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, and his coming out experience. He also speaks at length about his work as a political scientist on gay rights activism and his membership in the Gay Activists Alliance. Sherrill describes a crystallizing moment for him while marching down Franklin Street in the 60s and being yelled at for being a communist, Jew, and homosexual. He realized that though the heckler did not actually know him, they assumed these things because he was marching for integration, and that all of these oppressions were bound up together.Read less