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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Walter Spearman joins the UNC journalism faculty
Spearman, a 1929 UNC graduate and former Daily Tar Heel editor, returned to Chapel Hill after five years at the Charlotte News to teach journalism at the university.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Jim and John Webb design the Spearman house, the first of their Whitehead Circle houses
The Webb firm designed a house at 418 Whitehead Circle for Walter Spearman of the UNC School of Journalism and his wife Mary, placed around a large rock that juts from the site. It was the first of five houses the brothers designed on the street.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Walter Spearman receives the Thomas Jefferson Award
Spearman received the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1978, near the end of a teaching career in which students admired his defense of freedom of speech and of the press.
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