UNC is planning to install a marker commemorating the 1966 protests that led to the removal of state-mandated restrictions on guest speakers on campus, commonly known as the Speaker Ban law.
The law, passed in 1963 and overturned as unconstitutional in federal court in 1968, prohibited communists, people who had invoked their Fifth Amendment rights in communist hearings and those who advocated the overthrow of the U.S. from speaking on campus. The marker, to be placed on the stone wall between McCorkle Place and Franklin Street, will recognize the students who organized the protests and will be unveiled Oct. 1.