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1. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

2. November 1958
   Property or economic transaction · Chapel Hill Ruth Faison Shaw brings her finger-painting case histories to the University

   The Chapel Hill News Leader reported that Shaw, recently of Chapel Hill, was giving the University more than a thousand case histories on personality diagnosis through finger painting and was working as its consultant in therapy.

3. November 1961
   Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Ruth Faison Shaw holds a finger-painting show in Chapel Hill

   The Chapel Hill Weekly ran a page of photographs of a finger-painting show by Shaw, showing her at work and a display in a garden.

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