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Grace Aycock

1919–1996 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Grace Aycock

Oral history interview with Grace Aycock, March 28, 1990: interview L-0037, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Aycock, Grace · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Grace Aycock (1919-1996), wife of University of North Carolina chancellor William B. Aycock, recalls her life and the social side of running the chancellor's household in Chapel Hill, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded March 28, 1990, by Frances A. Weaver. Raised in Greene County in eastern North Carolina in the 1920s and 30s, she spent a year at Duke from 1936 before finishing her degree in 1939 at what is now UNC Greensboro. Published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South.

About Grace Aycock

William B. Aycock papers 1942-2006.

Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015 · 1942

Personal papers of William B. Aycock (1915-2015), who taught in the law school and served as chancellor at Chapel Hill, covering 1942 to 2006 in about 2,400 items and 6 linear feet. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5328. Topics include academic freedom and the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law, Army service in the Second World War, basketball under Dean Smith, and photographs.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Aycock, Grace, 1919-1996.

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