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Samuel M. Holton

1922–2010 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineChapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–19771965–1977 · 25 events · Sandy McClamroch won a third term as mayor of Chapel Hill in 1965 and was re-elected in 1967, both times by wide margins. The 1965 election also chose three members of the school board. Before the 1967 vote some registrars turned away students living in University dormitories, and that May voters returned two aldermen, brought back a former one and elected David Ethridge, while Gene Strowd lost the seat he had held for 12 years. Howard Lee won second and third terms as mayor in 1971 and 1973, Carrboro elected Robert Wells mayor, and in 1973 voters put the first UNC student on the Chapel Hill board and returned Edwin Caldwell, the school board's only Black member. In 1975 James C. Wallace defeated Gerry Cohen for mayor in the first election under Chapel Hill's new charter, and Ruth West and the Carrboro Community Coalition won in Carrboro. In 1977 Robert Drakeford became what the Daily Tar Heel called Carrboro's first Black mayor.

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  1. Phyllis Sockwell and James Riddle unseat both incumbents on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Challengers Phyllis Sockwell (5,096 votes) and James Riddle (3,799) defeated incumbents Peachee Wicker and Samuel Holton for the two open seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. Board members pointed to a public split over closed board meetings, which Wicker had opposed and Holton defended. People: Samuel M. Holton Place: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools · Also named: Phyllis Sockwell, James Riddle, Marie Peachee Wicker, Samuel HoltonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1975, p. 2

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Oral history interview with Sam Holton, March 28, 2001: interview K-0206, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Holton, Samuel M. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Samuel M. Holton (1922-2010) sat on Chapel Hill's school board during desegregation. Elected in 1968 after a term as PTA president, he took office as racial tension rose after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Talking with Jenny Matthews in March 2001, he describes the board's decisions on integrating the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the conflicts that came with them. Runs about eighty minutes; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2007 through Documenting the American South.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Holton, Samuel M., 1922-2010 -- Interviews.

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