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I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake

1906–1996 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Patriots of North Carolina hold a mass meeting in Hillsborough and form an Orange County unit An overflow crowd of about 300, observers said all white, filled the courtroom in Hillsborough for a Patriots of North Carolina meeting where I. Beverly Lake urged abandoning the public schools for a private system rather than integrate. W. C. George, the Patriots' state president, presided as members named an Orange County executive committee. People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George), I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): Executive body named by Patriots, March 22, 1956, pp. 1 and 8
  2. W. C. George and Lucius Cheshire are named Orange County managers of I. Beverly Lake's campaign I. Beverly Lake named W. C. George of Chapel Hill and Lucius M. Cheshire of Hillsborough, both directors of the pro-segregation North Carolina Defenders of States Rights, co-managers of his campaign for governor in Orange County. People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George), I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake Place: Orange County · Also named: Lucius M. CheshireSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): Lake names co-managers for campaign in county, April 14, 1960, p. 6
  3. Terry Sanford carries Orange County over Beverly Lake in the governor's runoff In the Democratic runoff for governor, Orange County gave Terry Sanford 4,685 votes to 3,267 for I. Beverly Lake, a wider margin than he won statewide. Sanford carried all five Chapel Hill precincts by better than four to one, while Lake won 11 of the county's 21 precincts, mostly rural, and the three Hillsboro precincts by about five to three. People: Terry Sanford, I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 30, 1960, p. 8
  4. The North Carolina Supreme Court rules UNC law faculty meetings are not subject to the open meetings law In a 6-1 decision written by Justice I. Beverly Lake, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that the UNC law school faculty was not a governing body under the state open meetings law, reversing two lower-court rulings that had opened its meetings since 1976. The Student Bar Association had sued after students were turned away from a Feb. 27, 1976 faculty meeting. People: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1978, p. 3

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I. Beverly Lake Jr. papers, 1958-2012

Lake, I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly), 1934- · 1958

The papers of I. Beverly Lake Jr., born 1934, run from 1958 to 2012 and form part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5776. Topics include a judicial and political career: judges in North Carolina, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, political campaigns, and the state Republican Party. The material also concerns public utilities and utility rate law in Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lake, I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly), 1934-.

UNC

W.C. George papers, 1904-1971 (bulk 1950-1968).

George, W. C. (Wesley Critz), 1888-1982 · 1904

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lake, I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly), 1906-1996.

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