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Dan K. Moore graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1927 and studied law in Chapel Hill for a year. As governor from 1965 to 1969 he set up the nine-member commission, headed by David Britt, that recommended leaving speaker policy to each campus's trustees after the 1963 law barring Communists from speaking on state campuses.
Source: NCpedia: Moore, Dan Killian (from Research Branch, NC OA&H)
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1906–1986 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Dan K. Moore, governor of North Carolina from 1965 to 1969, holds a baseball, perhaps for a ceremonial first pitch, at the New York Yankees exhibition against the UNC baseball team at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill on 3 April 1979. Color slide by Hugh Morton.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986.
Students on the Chapel Hill campus wait behind a low wall for Frank Wilkinson to speak on 2 March 1966, beneath a sign calling it Gov. Dan K. Moore's (Chapel Hill) Wall. A News and Observer negative from the protests against North Carolina's 1963 Speaker Ban Law.
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E. M. Adams, a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, wrote Governor Dan K. Moore on 2 June 1965 urging repeal of the Speaker Ban and setting out his views on academic freedom. The 1963 law barred known Communists and certain others from speaking at the state's public colleges.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986.
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Rabbi Joseph H. Levine took Governor Dan K. Moore to task on 8 June 1965 for staying silent on the Speaker Ban, and argued that the legislature was punishing the university at Chapel Hill for its liberal reputation. The 1963 law limited campus speakers at the state's public colleges.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Photographs made by Jock Lauterer in and around Chapel Hill from about 1964 to 1968, some 3,522 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Speaker Ban Law, Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina, Tar Heel basketball and football, the Jubilee festival, the Old Well, and visitors including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Bob Hope and Jayne Mansfield.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986.
Photographer Jim Wallace made this body of roughly 42,000 images between 1960 and 2013, twenty four linear feet in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC, 70126. Topics include civil rights demonstrations in Chapel Hill and the 1963 March on Washington, the Speaker Ban Law, Tar Heel basketball and football with Dean Smith among the names, and university figures including Frank Porter Graham and J. Carlyle Sitterson.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986.
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Picture: Dan K. Moore. No known copyright restrictions. Photograph by State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, NC; T_81_5_12; via Wikimedia Commons
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