Josiah William Bailey

Life and Orange County connections

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1. January 30 and February 6, 1925 A Klan spokesman and Josiah W. Bailey argue the Ku Klux Klan's case in Memorial Hall The Dialectic Society, renamed the Di Senate, brought both sides of the Ku Klux Klan question to Memorial Hall. On January 30, 1925, Dr. J. H. Hawkins told a large crowd that the Klan was the work of Providence and preached Anglo-Saxon supremacy, cheered loudest by Durham Klansmen in front, the Weekly reported; on February 6 Josiah W. Bailey spoke against the Klan for two hours, reading from its ritual and constitution. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. H. HawkinsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 12, 1925, p. 1
2. November 4, 1930 Democrats sweep Orange County in the general election Orange, like all but six counties, went Democratic. John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill won a state senate seat and S. W. Andrews was elected register of deeds; in the Chapel Hill precinct Josiah Bailey beat George Pritchard for the U.S. Senate 517 to 144 and Sheriff W. T. Sloan won 611 to 60. People: Josiah William Bailey, Samuel Weldon Andrews, William T. Sloan, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange County; Chapel Hill precinct at the school · Also named: Josiah BaileySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 7, 1930, p. 1
3. March 30, 1939 America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcasts from Memorial Hall as the Institute of Human Relations opens The NBC program America's Town Meeting of the Air, normally held in New York, was broadcast nationally from Memorial Hall on whether the South was the nation's number one economic problem, with Senator Josiah W. Bailey, President Frank P. Graham and cotton-picker inventor John Rust speaking and alumnus George V. Denny Jr. presiding. The evening, with Dorothy Thompson's first Weil lecture, opened the University's fifth Institute of Human Relations, which ran to April 7. People: Josiah William Bailey, Frank Porter Graham Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Rust, George V. Denny Jr., Dorothy ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 31, 1939, p. 1
4. May 30, 1942 Orange County backs Senator Josiah W. Bailey in the Democratic primary In the Democratic primary Orange County gave Senator Josiah W. Bailey 623 votes to 125 for Richard T. Fountain, and Chapel Hill 284 to 53, as Bailey won renomination statewide by about 100,000. The Weekly printed the vote of every county precinct; there were no local contests. Place: Orange County · Also named: Richard T. FountainSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 5, 1942, p. 1