Coates joined the University of North Carolina law faculty at Chapel Hill in 1923 and founded the Institute of Government there in 1931 with Gladys Hall Coates. It ran privately until it became part of the university in 1942, and the campus building finished for it in 1939 later carried his name.
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Howard E. Covington Jr.'s biography of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the law professor who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and led it through its early years. Topics include Coates as a law teacher and the institute's history as a center for the study of public administration in Chapel Hill. Published in 2010 by the University Library at Chapel Hill, 322 pages with 32 pages of plates.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Greetings to first year law students at the beginning of the academic year 1983
Coates, Albert · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Albert Coates's address of welcome to the entering class at the University of North Carolina School of Law, printed in 1983 as a 16-page pamphlet; a 1976 version also exists. It includes a letter from Thomas Wolfe, the novelist and Coates's friend from their Chapel Hill student days.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
The Story of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coates, Albert McKinley · 1981
Albert Coates's own account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, which he founded, subtitled 'out of a classroom in Chapel Hill' and published in 1981. The 303 pages trace the institute's history and its role in educating North Carolina's public officials.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
To whom it may concern: an experience in the North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Coates, Albert · 1968
Albert Coates's personal narrative of his stay in North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill after a stroke, published by the University of North Carolina in 1968. Topics include cerebrovascular disease patients and their rehabilitation, hospital care in Chapel Hill and Coates himself, the founder of the university's Institute of Government. 30 pages; also titled What the NC Memorial Hospital Meant to Me.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Remarks by Albert Coates on the occasion of the Highway Safety Research Center's 15th anniversary
Coates, Albert · 1980 · University of North Carolina, Highway Safety Research Center
Albert Coates's remarks marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed by the center in 1980. Coates, founder of the university's Institute of Government, spoke at the occasion.
Oral history interview with George Esser, June-August 1990
Esser, George H. · 2008
Oral history interview with George H. Esser Jr. recorded over the summer of 1990 and issued in 2008. Esser worked with the North Carolina Fund and with Albert Coates's Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, and topics include community development, economic conditions, social reform and race relations in the state.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Albert Coates's 1975 personal account of his stroke and the care he received at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He describes what the hospital meant to him as a patient.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
What the University of North Carolina meant to me from 1914 to 1918
Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1968 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Albert Coates looking back on his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina from 1914 to 1918, printed in Chapel Hill by the university in 1968. Thirty three leaves. Coates went on to found the Institute of Government, and the piece is a personal recollection of student life and intellectual life in Chapel Hill in the years around the First World War.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Presentation of the Herman G. Baity portrait to the University of North Carolina : April 24, 1966, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Coates, Albert · 1966 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Printed program from the presentation of a portrait of engineer Herman G. Baity (1895-1975) to the University of North Carolina on April 24, 1966. Contains Harold B. Gotaas's statement of presentation, Albert Coates's 'A portrait in words' sketching Baity's life and work, and Baity's own remarks titled 'A voice from the tomb'. Published in Chapel Hill by the university, 29 pages with illustrations.
Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Albert Coates, director.
Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1939 · Institute of Government
Folded illustrated leaflet from 1939 describing the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill under its director, Albert Coates. The Institute worked with North Carolina public officials on state and local government, through teaching political science in Chapel Hill. Three unnumbered pages on one folded sheet, the kind of item issued to introduce a young program.
Coates, Gladys Hall · 1979 · North Caroliniana Society
Gladys Hall Coates's 1979 account of her husband Albert Coates, a North Carolina law teacher whose Institute of Government work was based at Chapel Hill. Published by the North Caroliniana Society, thirty pages with a portrait.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
Coates, Gladys Hall · 1979 · North Caroliniana Society
Gladys Hall Coates's account of fifty years with her husband Albert Coates, the law teacher who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by the North Caroliniana Society in 1979.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
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Albert Coates, who founded the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government, traces how North Carolina women gained legal and civic standing, with attention to figures such as Chapel Hill's Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Sallie Southall Cotten, Ellen Winston and Susie Sharp. Privately printed at Chapel Hill in 1975; 231 illustrated pages.
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Competition or sporting achievement · UNC, Chapel Hill
About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads.
Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke.
Appointment, election or service · UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill
After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall.
The legislature creates a commission on improving the state's laws, with Coates as secretary
Law, policy or court · Raleigh
The 1931 General Assembly set up a commission of justices, judges, lawyers and law school representatives to recommend changes to the laws, with Albert Coates as executive secretary and a report due in 1933.
Graham and Odum announced Jackson, history chair at the Woman's College in Greensboro, as dean of the school Odum had planned for three years with a small state allocation. Graham urged Coates to fold the Institute into it and made him one of its trustees, but Coates kept apart; short of state money, the school was dissolved after Jackson returned to Greensboro as chancellor.
Officials and citizens met in Chapel Hill to hear the state's congressional delegation, led by Senator Josiah Bailey, explain the first New Deal recovery laws, and President Roosevelt sent a letter urging other states to copy the Institute. The organizing committee then gave Coates new work, among it a report on proposed constitutional amendments and a guidebook for election officials.
Publication, speech or performance · Institute of Government, Chapel Hill
The April 1935 issue spread across its center pages a drawing of a three-story 'governmental laboratory building' by the university's architects, Atwood and Weeks, and opened a public drive for funds. Coates told Roscoe Pound that building-supply dealers would donate the materials.
Closing or ending · Institute of Government, Chapel Hill
By 1938 the Cone gifts were spent and the staff had gone weeks without pay. Brandis became research director of the State Tax Commission, Dillard Gardner joined the state supreme court staff and Grice the state auditor's office, while two young assistants stayed on at reduced pay; the last regular monthly Popular Government went out in January 1938.
Naming or commemoration · Hill Music Hall and Institute of Government building, Chapel Hill
On the eve of Thanksgiving a standing-room crowd in Hill Music Hall heard Bankhead, Governor Clyde Hoey and President Frank Graham praise Coates, with eight of the state's eleven congressmen and former governor O. Max Gardner on hand. A reception followed in Graham Memorial, and guests stayed for the Virginia football game the next day.
Appointment, election or service · Institute of Government, Chapel Hill
As Allied armies advanced across Europe, Broughton called on the short-staffed Institute to help plan for life in North Carolina's towns and cities once the war ended. State payments for this work and for civil defense training steadied the Institute's budget.
Founding or opening · Highway Patrol training camp, Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill
With money from the legislature to bring the Patrol back to its prewar strength, Governor Gregg Cherry's administration turned to the Institute, which offered an eight-week course for about a hundred recruits chosen from 1,300 applicants. Classes began on October 13, with instructors from the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern University and New York University.
University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award
Award or honor · Consolidated University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
By unanimous vote the trustees named Coates the faculty member of the Consolidated University who had done most that year for the welfare of humanity, under the award created by the late governor's will. Coates accepted it for the Institute, and it carried $10,000.
Naming or commemoration · Knapp Building, Institute of Government, Chapel Hill
A four-day dedication of the Institute of Government's headquarters, for which officials were invited by congressional district and the Kughler murals were unveiled, closed with Governor Hodges accepting the million-dollar building on behalf of the state. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. stayed for the whole program.
The UNC law school dedicates an issue of the North Carolina Law Review to Albert Coates
Award or honor · School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill
When Coates gave up full-time teaching in 1967, the law school marked it by dedicating the November 1967 North Carolina Law Review to him. That year the North Carolina Bar Association also gave him its John J. Parker award, and Governor Dan K. Moore presented him the North Carolina Award.
Albert Coates publishes By Her Own Bootstraps, on women and the law in North Carolina
Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill
Growing out of his family law teaching, the book traced how North Carolina law on women's political rights and domestic freedoms had changed, and gave much space to the Equal Rights Amendment debate, which Coates supported.
Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Life event · Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, South Road (NC 54) and Country Club Road, Chapel Hill
Albert Coates (1896-1989), who founded the Institute of Government at the university, was buried in the cemetery.
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