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Charles B. Aycock

Charles Brantley Aycock studied at the University of North Carolina from 1877 to 1880 and edited a weekly, the Ledger, in Chapel Hill. In 1899 he worked with legislators to disfranchise Black voters through literacy tests, poll taxes and the grandfather clause, and he was elected governor in 1900.

Source: NCpedia: Aycock, Charles Brantley

Also found in catalogs as Charles B. (Charles Brantley) Aycock.

1859–1912 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Charles B. Aycock, 2013
Charles B. Aycock, 2013

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Interview with Mrs. Marshall Delancey Haywood, Raleigh, NC

Haywood, Martha Hawkins Bailey, 1890-1969 · 1968

Interviews recorded in spring 1968 with Martha Hawkins Bailey Haywood, Mrs. Marshall DeLancey Haywood of Raleigh, by the Wakefield Junior Historian Club for an oral history project. One reel-to-reel tape, with a CD version and transcripts. Her memories range over Raleigh houses, streets, families and institutions; Chapel Hill and the university are mentioned. State Archives of North Carolina, TR.40.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912.

State Archives of NC

Miscellaneous Postcard Collection

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Office of Archives and History. Division of Archives and Records · 1900

Postcards gathered from many sources, 1900s to 2005, arranged in five series: single cards, addressed cards, postcard packets, oversize cards and miscellany. Places and subjects span North Carolina and beyond, from Alamance Battleground to the Appalachian Mountains, and Chapel Hill and Hillsborough scenes are among them.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912.

State Archives of NC

Aycock, Charles (Gov.): photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Governor Charles Aycock in a portrait copied from a book, undated. Aycock served as governor of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905.

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CH Historical Society

Aycock: His People's Genius: Founders' Day Address, October 12, 1933, University Of North Carolina

Winston, Robert Watson · 1933

Robert Watson Winston's Founders' Day address at the University of North Carolina, delivered on October 12, 1933 and printed afterward. It concerns Charles Brantley Aycock, the North Carolina governor who died in 1912, and the history of the university at Chapel Hill.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Aycock, Charles B. 1859-1912.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Charles B. Aycock edits the Ledger in Chapel Hill Aycock, then a university student, took over as editor of the weekly Chapel Hill Ledger in 1879, succeeding Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The paper ran until 1880.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Ledger, November 1, 1879, p. 2 (masthead)
  2. Cornelia Phillips Spencer edits the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger For some months in 1879 Cornelia Phillips Spencer edited the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger, with students R. P. Pell and Francis D. Winston as assistants. The book calls her the county's only woman editor; Charles B. Aycock took over from her. People: Charles B. AycockSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 127-128
  3. Seniors begin the class tree and Class Day custom The class of 1880, led by its president Thomas H. Battle, planted a sugar maple at the edge of the Forbidden Ground after Class Day speeches that included one by Charles B. Aycock. Later classes kept the custom, planting a water oak in 1882 and a white pine in 1883. People: Charles B. Aycock, Locke CraigSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 197
  4. Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove and named for the governor The county built the original eight-room Aycock School at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade and named it for former governor Charles B. Aycock.Search the index · Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
  5. UNC opens a residence hall named for Charles B. Aycock The university occupied Aycock Residence Hall on the Lower Quad in 1924. The name stood until the trustees removed it in July 2020, citing his racist views and actions.Search the index · Names in Brick and Stone: Aycock Residence Hall
  6. UNC trustees vote to remove Josephus Daniels’s name from the student stores building On July 29, 2020 the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted 11 to 2 to remove four names from campus buildings, among them Josephus Daniels. The Daniels Building became UNC Student Stores, and the names of Charles Brantley Aycock, Julian Shakespeare Carr and Thomas Ruffin Sr. were removed at the same meeting. People: Thomas Ruffin, Julian S. Carr, Charles B. AycockSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: BOT votes to remove names from buildings
  7. UNC renames Aycock Residence Hall for Hortense McClinton On the chancellor's recommendation the trustees voted to put McClinton's name on the residence hall that had carried Governor Charles B. Aycock's name until it was removed in July 2020. The Carr Building became the Henry Owl Building the same day. People: Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Charles B. AycockSearch the index · ABC11 WTVD: UNC names buildings after two trailblazers

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Picture: Charles B. Aycock, 2013. Public domain. Photograph by Watson; The World's Work, 1902: archive.org babel.hathitrust.org; via Wikimedia Commons

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