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Charles S. Mangum Jr.

Charles S. Mangum Jr. lived at 510 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. He inherited the old Mangum house at East Rosemary and Hillsborough streets from his aunt, Mary Elizabeth Mangum Wilson, and in 1944 sold it to the novelist Betty Smith.

Source: DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 17, 1958, p. 3 (A Look Back at the Old Mangum Place on Rosemary Street)

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1902–1980 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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1931 Charles S. Mangum Jr. stays on to do research in the UNC law school After finishing law school with the class of 1931, Charles S. Mangum Jr. stayed in Chapel Hill to do research in the university law school, the Daily Tar Heel reported that October.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1931, p. 4
1940 UNC Press publishes Charles S. Mangum Jr.'s The Legal Status of the Negro The University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill published The Legal Status of the Negro by Charles S. Mangum Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1952, p. 3 (New Book by Charles Mangum About Legal Status of Tenant Farmer in the Southeast) · Also: Open Library catalog: The legal status of the Negro
1944, after July 29 Charles S. Mangum Jr. sells the old Mangum house on East Rosemary Street to Betty Smith Charles S. Mangum Jr. inherited the old Mangum house at East Rosemary and Hillsborough streets from his aunt, Mary Elizabeth Mangum Wilson, widow of the Methodist minister N. H. D. Wilson, who died at the house on July 29, 1944, and he sold it later that year to the novelist Betty Smith. People: Betty SmithSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 17, 1958, p. 3 (A Look Back at the Old Mangum Place on Rosemary Street) · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 3, 1944, p. 8
June 1952 UNC Press publishes Mangum's study of tenant farmer law The University of North Carolina Press published The Legal Status of the Tenant Farmer in the Southeast by Charles S. Mangum Jr. of Chapel Hill, a 22-chapter treatise on farm tenancy law that closed with proposed reforms.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1952, p. 3 (New Book by Charles Mangum About Legal Status of Tenant Farmer in the Southeast)

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Betty Smith 1 entry: Charles S. Mangum Jr. sells the old Mangum house on East Rosemary Street to Betty Smith (1944, after July 29)

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Miscellaneous papers of 510 E. Franklin Street, 1879-1957

1879

Papers associated with the house at 510 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, dated 1879 to 1957, about 75 items in half a linear foot, collection 5418 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern the history of the house and two residents, William Terry Couch of the University of North Carolina Press and Charles Staples Mangum Jr.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mangum, Charles S., Jr. (Charles Staples), 1902-1980.

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DigitalNC newspapers: 23 Orange County pages naming Charles Staples Mangum Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Grave recorded at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (white sections 1-4)Cemetery Census Listed in the county cemetery survey, grave by grave, at Cemetery Census

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