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James Atwater

1932– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Democrats carry Orange and Sheriff Hughes beats an independent challenger Orange County went Democratic again in the general election: Sheriff John K. Hughes, against whom the hardest fight was made, defeated James M. Atwater, a Democrat running as an independent, and the rest of the Democratic county and legislative ticket won. W. N. Pritchard and R. L. Walker carried the Nineteenth Senatorial District over Thomas J. Oldham of Orange and J. E. Lyon of Durham. People: James Atwater, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Thomas J. Oldham, John Knox Hughes Place: Orange County · Also named: W. N. Pritchard, R. L. WalkerSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 6, 1902, p. 3

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Oral history interview with James Atwater, February 28, 2001: interview K-0201, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Atwater, James · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

James Atwater, born in 1932 into a family that had lived in Chapel Hill for generations, talked with Jennifer Nardone in February 2001. He describes the town's Black community between the 1930s and the 1950s: how neighbors dealt with one another in church, at school and in social life, and what schooling under segregation meant at Orange County Training School and Lincoln High School. About an hour and eighteen minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Atwater, James, 1932- -- Interviews.

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