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Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall

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  1. Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul prepare the Institute's report on the Brown decision for Governor Umstead At Governor William B. Umstead's request, Coates wrote a history of the state's separate schools and Paul, who had clerked for Chief Justice Fred Vinson, examined the ruling and the plans for getting around it, concluding that segregated schools could not be kept. When Umstead named Thomas J. Pearsall's advisory committee on August 11, 1954, the report was the first paper its members received, and Coates then ran a shortened version in Popular Government. People: Albert Coates, Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall, William B. Umstead Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: James C. N. PaulSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 231-238

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By Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall

Thomas Jenkins Pearsall papers, 1954-1979

Pearsall, Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins), 1903-1981 · 1954

Thomas J. Pearsall (1903 to 1981) left papers covering 1954 to 1979, collection 4300 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include school integration and the law of segregation in education in North Carolina and the United States, with the Supreme Court named among them, and they reach higher education in the state, the Chapel Hill campus and the Roanoke Island Historical Association.

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