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Lavelle won a seat on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 2007 and served two terms, then was mayor of Carrboro for four terms from 2013 to 2021. She is a professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where her subjects include state and local government law and sexuality and the law.
Source: North Carolina Central University School of Law: Lydia Lavelle
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These works give background on Carrboro’s LGBTQ municipal firsts, the wider story this person is part of. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
Papers of Ellie Kinnaird, born 1931, a North Carolina state senator, spanning 1987 to 2016 and running to roughly 6,400 items across 20.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5356. The papers focus on capital punishment in North Carolina and the campaigns against it, health insurance legislation, voting technology, and the work of women legislators in the General Assembly.
Roughly 2,000 items in 6.5 linear feet kept as the papers of Michael R. Nelson, born 1963, dated from about 1890 to 2012, collection 70140 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include politics and government in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County, campaign paraphernalia, and gay activists and politicians in North Carolina, naming Joseph A. Herzenberg, 1941 to 2007.
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