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Foushee worked 21 years as an administrative officer for the Chapel Hill Police Department, served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools board from 1997 to 2004 and on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2004 to 2012. She has represented North Carolina's Fourth District in Congress since 2023.
Source: U.S. House of Representatives: About Congresswoman Valerie Foushee
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Background reading on Killing of James Cates, 1970. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Valerie Foushee. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.
Jean Bolduc's collection of oral history interviews with Black residents of Durham and Orange counties, published by The History Press in 2016, 125 pages with photographs and portraits. The narrators are the poet Jaki Shelton Green, civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Walter Jackson, Nate Davis, Brenda Stephens, Diane Wright, Jackie Wagstaff and Michelle Johnson, and a closing chapter deals with the Ku Klux Klan. The interviews document Black life and race relations in the two counties across the twentieth century.
A zine by Mike Ogle on the life and death of James L. Cates Jr., who was killed in 1970, and on the case for reparations at the University of North Carolina. Ogle designed and printed it himself and gave it away at a monument dedication in Chapel Hill on 12 February 2019. Topics include crimes against African Americans in the town during the twentieth century.
Program for the installation of Kevin Guskiewicz as the twelfth chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill, held in Memorial Hall on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at three in the afternoon. Eight unnumbered pages with color portraits, published by the university.
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Picture: Valerie Foushee, official portrait, 2025. Public domain. Official portrait, U.S. House of Representatives; via Wikimedia Commons
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