UNC yearbook editor expected 'public outcry' over racist 1979 photos. This week, it finally came.
CHAPEL HILL — The editor of the 1979 UNC yearbook fully expected outrage over a photo of Chapel Hill fraternity members dressed in Klan-style robes pretending to lynch a white student wearing blackface, she said Friday.She just didn’t think it would take 40 years.”It was merely to show the truth,” said Chrisann Ohler, who led the Yackety Yack yearbook in 1979 and talked with the staff at the time about whether to publish the photo and another of two students in blackface […]
