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Wesley Critz George, a University of North Carolina biology professor, led the White Patriots of North Carolina, a segregationist group formed in August 1955 to frustrate the desegregation of the state's public schools. The Patriots preached white supremacy and in 1956 held mass meetings in towns including Hillsborough.
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1888–1982 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by W. C. George (Wesley Critz George).
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Wesley Critz George gave this address at the annual initiation banquet of Alpha Omega Alpha, the honor medical society, in Chapel Hill on April 1, 1955. It was reprinted from the November 1955 issue of The Pharos and published in Palo Alto by the society, and its topic is medical students at Chapel Hill.
Address given by Wesley Critz George at the spring initiation of the University of North Carolina chapter of Sigma Xi, the honor society for scientific research, and printed in the society's quarterly for December 1938. A few pages detached from that magazine.
Wesley Critz George (1888-1982) published this piece himself in Chapel Hill in 1962 and signed it at the end. Topics include academic freedom, brainwashing and the curriculum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Running 1904 to 1971 with the bulk from 1950 to 1968, the papers of W. C. George (1888-1982), a Chapel Hill faculty member, come to about 4,800 items in 13.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3822. Subjects include the genetic aspects of race, the Patriots of North Carolina, the North Carolina Defenders of States' Rights, African American civil rights and education, and academic freedom in the state.
Dr. W.C. George, recorded on cassette in 1975 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
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Picture: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George), Yackety Yack, 1911. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1911 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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