Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham, Jr. Records
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Excerpt from Chancellors' Meeting minutes discussing interracial functions
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This policy statement is an excerpt from the minutes of a February 14, 1952, Chancellors' Meeting, and documents the adoption of a policy that no "mixed social functions" will be held on campus. There is no mention of the specific campus to which this applies, but it is presumably the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
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Letter from a Board of Trustees member concerning race relations and the Greensboro sit-ins
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This copy of a letter from University of North Carolina Board of Trustees member John W. Clark to fellow member Mark C. Lassiter, dated March 7, 1960, discusses Clark's reaction to several issues of race relations, including the Greensboro and Winston-Salem sit-ins. Clark questions the motivation and backing of individuals working to end segregation and suggests that the people of North Carolina should be advised of who is ""subsidizing"" the movement. Clark also mentions that three students at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) were involved in the sit-ins, all of them from ""out of state."" The ""out of state"" theme is continued throughout the letter.
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Memo to the faculty of WCUNC about the Greensboro sit-ins
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This memorandum from Chancellor Gordon William Blackwell dated March 16, 1960, addresses the publicity given to Blackwell's remarks to the student body following the sit-ins. Blackwell states that his comments, which were critical of the sit-ins, must be viewed in light of the fact that the events had occurred so close to an event that had been planned in advance, and notes that he is working on a solution to the problem. Several Woman's College students participated in the sit-ins.
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Memorandum about black enrollment at WCUNC
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This memorandum, dated May 6, 1958, is from Mereb E. Mossman, then Dean of Instruction at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), to Chancellor Gordon William Blackwell. The memo documents a request from Dr. Harris of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., about black enrollment figures at WCUNC, and about how black students "were doing" there.
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Public schools, desegregation, and North Carolina's future
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This speech, given by Chancellor Edward Graham Jr., addresses the challenges facing North Carolina's public school system in the wake of the Brown v. the Board of Education decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954, which mandated school desegregation. It was delivered in 1955 to an unknown audience.
