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Charles E. Daye

Charles E. Daye joined the UNC School of Law faculty in 1972 as its first African American tenure-track professor and advised its Black Law Students Association from 1972 until he retired in 2014. Born in Durham in 1944, he was dean of North Carolina Central University's law school from 1981 to 1985 and was named Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law in 1991.

Source: UNC School of Law: Professor Charles E. Daye Honored with Portrait Dedication

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StorylineThe Thomas Jefferson Award at UNC, 1965–20041965–2004 · 9 events · UNC's Thomas Jefferson Award, a cash prize paid from the income of a gift, went to the faculty member whose life best reflected the spirit of Jefferson. Winners included historian Fletcher M. Green in 1965, former chancellor William B. Aycock in 1967, physicist Eugen Merzbacher in 1972, Walter Spearman in 1978, political scientist Richard Richardson in 1987 and orthopedic surgeon Frank Wilson in 1992. Law professor Charles E. Daye won it in 2004. StorylineHonoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–19931970–1993 · 46 events · Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed a Martin Luther King Day in Chapel Hill in January 1970, though UNC declined to close, and the aldermen named the day again in 1973. UNC's Faculty Council struck King's name from a proposed yearly observance in 1977, but a King Memorial Lecture began in 1978 and a campus-wide celebration in 1982. In 1984 Chapel Hill made King's birthday a town holiday. Andrew Young, Max Robinson and Randall Robinson were among the King Memorial Lecture speakers of the 1980s, Carrboro's mayor proclaimed a King Day in 1981, and King's daughters Yolanda and Bernice spoke at UNC's celebrations in 1984 and 1989. UNC held classes on the first federal King holiday in 1986 but, after students petitioned, closed for it in 1988 under new state legislation. Rallies and marches on Franklin Street marked the holiday in 1987 and 1988, and Maya Angelou and June Jordan spoke at UNC in 1988 and 1989. In 1991 a King holiday gathering at the post office opposed the Persian Gulf war and UNC's tenth annual celebration brought C.T. Vivian, and in 1992 an NAACP march and a service at First Baptist Church marked the day. In 1993 UNC housekeepers held a Unity Day dinner in King's honor. StorylineBlack admissions at UNC: Bakke, Dean Renwick and the university affairs office, 1977–19831977–1983 · 26 events · In 1977 Chancellor Ferebee Taylor made Dean Hayden Renwick his adviser on raising minority enrollment. In 1978, as two white applicants sued the law school in a case likened to Bakke, Renwick charged that UNC was turning away qualified Black applicants. The University answered with its largest Black enrollment to date, and Taylor denied the charge before the Faculty Council. A faculty committee in 1979 found Black enrollment growth unsatisfactory but did not uphold most of the charges. In 1980 the Faculty Council asked for a minority affairs post reporting to the chancellor, and Chancellor Christopher Fordham created a vice chancellorship for university affairs, which Harold Wallace took up that December. Renwick sued two newspaper companies in 1981 over an editorial on his 1978 column; the suit was dismissed in 1982 and revived on appeal in 1983. StorylineChapel Hill answers the Greensboro killings and verdicts, 1979–19841979–1984 · 10 events · After five people were killed at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro in 1979, about 200 people held a silent vigil at the Chapel Hill post office. When a Greensboro jury acquitted six Klansmen and Nazis in November 1980, UNC students held a vigil, more than 800 marched to South Building and 1,526 signed petitions to the Justice Department. After the 1984 federal acquittals, Chapel Hill held a rally, a vigil and a teach-in.

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  1. Charles E. Daye joins the UNC School of Law as its first Black tenure-track professor Charles E. Daye, a Durham native, came to the UNC law faculty in 1972 from Covington & Burling as the school's first African American tenure-track professor. He taught torts, housing and community development and administrative advocacy, and advised the Black Law Students Association from 1972 until 2014. Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC School of Law: Professor Charles E. Daye Honored with Portrait Dedication · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1991, p. 3
  2. Law professor Charles Daye chairs the restructured Affirmative Action Committee Charles E. Daye, still the only Black professor in the law school, was elected chairman of the university's restructured Affirmative Action Committee. Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 1975, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 1, 1975, p. 1
  3. UNC's Faculty Council asks for yearly recognition of the racial-equality cause and a merit scholarship for Black students By a 21-19 vote the Faculty Council asked Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor to find a way for the University to recognize each year the cause of racial equality and its leaders, after members struck from the recommendation an annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and his name. It then voted unanimously to ask officials to seek private money for a scholarship for Black students awarded without regard to need, which supporters likened to a 'black Morehead'; both came from the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, chaired by Charles E. Daye, along with calls to hire more Black, minority and women faculty. People: Charles E. Daye, James Dickson Phillips, E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1977, p. 1
  4. The Faculty Council adopts the Long Committee's recommendations on minority admissions The Faculty Council adopted the recommendations of the Long Committee report on minority admissions and affirmative action. The Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, chaired by law professor Charles E. Daye, then called open hearings in November on how to carry them out. People: Charles E. Daye Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles H. LongBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 27, 1979, p. 3
  5. UNC Faculty Council asks the chancellor to create a minority affairs post reporting to him The Faculty Council approved the final report of the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, chaired by law professor Charles E. Daye, asking Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III to create a mechanism reporting directly to him to coordinate minority admissions, financial aid, advising and recruitment. The report said the University had failed by omission to carry out its 1968 commitments; Fordham endorsed it and was to report back to the council in the fall. People: Charles E. Daye, Christopher C. Fordham III Place: Faculty Council meeting, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 21, 1980, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 28, 1985, p. 8
  6. More than 800 march from the Pit to South Building in a Rally for Justice More than 800 people marched from the Pit to South Building on November 20, 1980, in a Rally for Justice against the Greensboro Klan-Nazi acquittals and the rise of racist groups, sponsored by the Black Student Movement, Student Government and the Daily Tar Heel. Student body president Bob Saunders called for a special independent prosecutor, with speeches by BSM chairperson Mark Canady, law instructor Richard Rosen and law professor Charles E. Daye; the paper called it the largest gathering at South Building since May 1970. People: Charles E. Daye Place: The Pit and South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bob Saunders, Mark Canady, Richard RosenThe Daily Tar Heel, November 21, 1980, p. 1
  7. Charles E. Daye receives the Thomas Jefferson Award Law professor Charles E. Daye won the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2004, the year after he co-authored a brief that helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve affirmative action in college and university admissions. Place: UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Charles E. Daye (Teachers, Scholars, and Citizens: Distinguished Carolina Faculty)
  8. UNC School of Law dedicates a portrait of Charles E. Daye The law school held a virtual dedication for a commissioned portrait of Professor Emeritus Charles E. Daye by the Durham artist William Paul Thomas, attended by close to 300 people. The portrait hangs on the fifth floor of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall. Place: Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Paul ThomasSearch the index · UNC School of Law: Professor Charles E. Daye Honored with Portrait Dedication

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Daye, Charles E. (Charles Edward) · 1975

Papers of Charles Edward Daye, 1975 to 2012, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 05704. Topics include community development and housing in North Carolina, minorities in higher education, and politics and government, with the faculty and the early twenty-first century history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also among the subjects.

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