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Terry Sanford

Sanford returned to Chapel Hill after the Second World War, completed a law degree at the University of North Carolina in 1946, and served two years as assistant director of the university’s Institute of Government before opening a law practice in Fayetteville. He was elected governor of North Carolina in 1960.

Source: NCpedia: Sanford, Terry (Research Branch, N.C. Office of Archives and History)

1917–1998 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Terry Sanford, portrait plate, 1961
Terry Sanford, portrait plate, 1961

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StorylineHillsborough’s preservation bodies: the Historical Society and the Historic Hillsborough Commission, 1962–19641962–1964 · 7 events · In 1962 and 1963 Hillsborough gained two preservation bodies: the Hillsborough Historical Society and a state commission to restore and preserve the old town as a living historical exhibit. Mary Claire Engstrom was instrumental in founding the society, which held its first public meeting in April 1962. By August it had bought the remains of the William Read House, said to date from 1768, planning to restore part of it as its headquarters, and by early 1963 it had 234 members. In March 1963 the state House passed Rep. L. J. Phipps's bill for a commission appointed by Governor Terry Sanford, and that October the Historic Hillsborough Commission met for the first time. StorylineOrange County’s House seat changes hands, 19631963 · 6 events · Orange County lost its member of the General Assembly twice in 1963. John W. Umstead Jr. was ill from the first day of the session and stepped down by mid-March, and the county Democratic Executive Committee unanimously chose Recorder's Court judge L. J. Phipps to succeed him. Phipps took the oath on March 18. On June 22 the state American Legion elected him department commander, and because the Legion barred its commander from elective office he gave up the House seat, leaving Orange without a representative. On September 3 the county executive committee nominated Edwin J. Hamlin, publisher of the News of Orange County, by 28 to 27, and Governor Terry Sanford appointed him on September 10. StorylineChapel Hill’s schools leave West Franklin Street, 1963–19691963–1969 · 14 events · Chapel Hill's school board paid for a new high school by selling the 10-acre West Franklin Street property of its high school and junior high. The search for a site began in August 1963, and after the UNC trustees refused land at the University airport, the board signed a $1 million contract in June 1964 selling the property to Durham builder Bobby Roberts, for a high school on a 120-acre site north of town. That fall work began on a nine-story coed dormitory at the rear of the old tract. The new Chapel Hill High opened on High School Road in 1966 with the white students from Franklin Street and Lincoln High's students.

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  1. Law students Terry Sanford and William Cochrane join the Institute's legislative team Elmer Oettinger led the Institute's daily coverage of the 1939 General Assembly, mailing bulletins to a list that had grown to 7,000 names. Late in the session Cochrane recruited first-year law student Sanford, later governor, who came back to the Institute as an assistant director after the war. People: Albert Coates Place: General Assembly, Raleigh; Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Cochrane, Elmer OettingerSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 185
  2. Terry Sanford revives Boys State, with William Friday among its counselors After finishing his law courses, Sanford organized the first postwar Boys State session, staffed mostly by law students as counselors. Among them were William Friday, later president of the Consolidated University, whose first university paycheck came from the job, and William Aycock, a future chancellor. People: William B. Aycock, William C. Friday Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: William AycockSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 206
  3. Terry Sanford serves as assistant director of UNC's Institute of Government After the Second World War Sanford returned to Chapel Hill, completed a law degree in 1946 and served two years as assistant director of the Institute of Government before opening a law practice in Fayetteville. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · NCpedia: Sanford, Terry (Research Branch, N.C. Office of Archives and History)
  4. The Institute builds a Highway Patrol training camp on Raleigh Road Coates won approval to put a training camp on the eastern edge of the campus, on the south side of Raleigh Road at Country Club Road. State Highway Department crews brought seven wooden barracks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp Mackall near Fort Bragg and set them in a U around a drill yard, with water and sewer lines run from the university gym. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Raleigh Road at Country Club Road, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Country Club RoadSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 208
  5. Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC As returning veterans pushed enrollment to about 6,800, the federal government put up the prefabricated metal houses of Victory Village on 65 acres of UNC's south campus in 1946. About 350 student families lived there, and the last units were torn down in the early 1970s for the expansion of UNC Hospitals. People: Terry Sanford, William C. Friday, William B. Aycock Place: Chapel Hill (UNC south campus) · Also mentions: UNC Hospitals, Victory VillageSearch the index · UNC A to Z: Victory Village
  6. The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill With money from the legislature to bring the Patrol back to its prewar strength, Governor Gregg Cherry's administration turned to the Institute, which offered an eight-week course for about a hundred recruits chosen from 1,300 applicants. Classes began on October 13, with instructors from the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern University and New York University. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Highway Patrol training camp, Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. Gregg CherrySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 208
  7. Forty-four graduates of the Institute's Patrol school are sworn in as state troopers Fifty-three men finished the first eight-week course, and 44 took the oath as State Highway Patrol officers on December 7; the other nine were hired as places opened within the year. After the 1947 legislature voted to double the Patrol, Sanford and Pace ran two more sessions. People: Terry Sanford Place: State Highway Patrol (school at Chapel Hill) · Also named: Clifford PaceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 209
  8. Political scientist Donald Hayman joins the Institute of Government staff Recommended by political science chair Charles B. Robson when Coates wanted help screening Patrol recruits, Hayman was hired on the spot as an assistant director, the first non-lawyer on the staff since accountant T. N. Grice. He took the place of Terry Sanford, who had left to practice law in Fayetteville. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald Hayman, Charles B. Robson, T. N. GriceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 211
  9. Terry Sanford calls for better schools and a farm push at Cedar Grove Speaking to the Cedar Grove Ruritan Club at Aycock School, Fayetteville attorney Terry Sanford, seen as a leading candidate for governor in 1960, said North Carolina's schools were not preparing students well enough for college and urged a farm development drive to match the state's industrial promotion. Place: Aycock School cafeteria, Cedar GroveSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1958, p. 1
  10. Terry Sanford takes his campaign for governor to 200 Orange backers at Camp New Hope Terry Sanford laid out his campaign for governor to about 200 Orange County supporters at a noon meeting in the dining hall of the Presbyterian Camp New Hope, arranged by backers in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro. It was his fortieth county meeting in eight days of a tour meant to reach every county before the formal campaign. Place: Camp New Hope, New Hope communitySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1960, p. 1
  11. 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: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 30, 1960, p. 8
  12. Bobby Nichols of Cedar Grove is named North Carolina's Outstanding Young Farmer Robert B. (Bobby) Nichols Jr., 34, who ran the Arrowhead dairy farm six miles north of Hillsboro, was named the state's Outstanding Young Farmer for 1961 from 70 local winners at the Jaycee banquet in Wilson, with Gov. Terry Sanford on hand. Orange nominees had now won twice and placed second once in the three years the county had entered. People: Terry Sanford Place: Arrowhead Farm, north of Hillsborough (award in Wilson) · Also named: Robert B. Nichols Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 22, 1962, p. 6
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  1. Chapel Hill honors Representative John W. Umstead at a community dinner About 400 people at a public banquet in the University's Lenoir Hall honored John W. Umstead Jr., dean of the General Assembly, whom The News called the father of the state's mental hospital program, with Gov. Terry Sanford, his college roommate Frank Porter Graham, President William Friday and others speaking. Mrs. Umstead shared the honors, and the couple received a color television and a framed tribute. People: Terry Sanford, Frank Porter Graham, William C. Friday, William B. Aycock, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Lenoir Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 19, 1962, p. 1
  2. Hillsboro's town board urges the governor to build the I-85 access road into town Mayor Fred Claytor wrote Governor Sanford for the town board that the new federally aided bridge and access road from Interstate 85 into Hillsboro would serve the town, travelers and most citizens, and asked that it be built with dispatch. A few owners of nearby homes opposed the road, and one wrote President Kennedy against the spending. People: Terry Sanford Place: Approach to Hillsborough from Interstate 85 · Also named: Fred ClaytorThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1962, p. 8
  3. Governor Terry Sanford establishes the Historic Hillsborough Commission Interest stirred by the county and town bicentennials led to the commission, whose first projects included buying and restoring the Burwell School in 1965. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Burwell SchoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Hillsborough Since 1963 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1983, p. 2
  4. Governor Terry Sanford speaks to Chapel Hill school children Sanford spoke in the Chapel Hill High gymnasium to high school students and pupils from the Carrboro, Estes Hills and Glenwood schools, then held a press conference for Proconian reporters before about 800 children. A talk at Lincoln High for its pupils and those of Northside and Frank Graham schools was also scheduled that afternoon. Place: Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Graham · Also mentions: Estes HillsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 7, 1963, p. 1
  5. The state House passes the bill creating a Hillsborough historical commission Rep. L. J. Phipps's bill for a commission of at least 15 members to restore and preserve old Hillsborough as a living historical exhibit passed the House within about a week of its introduction on March 18. It was amended so that Governor Sanford would appoint the members by May 1 instead of April 1. People: Luther James Phipps, Terry Sanford Place: General Assembly, RaleighSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 28, 1963, p. 7
  6. Governor Terry Sanford dedicates the new School of Public Health building A two-day program opened on Saturday with an address by Abel Wolman of Johns Hopkins, group sessions on public health past and future, and an evening speech by Frank Porter Graham. On Sunday morning John Wright planted a southern magnolia in memory of Milton J. Rosenau, and Sanford dedicated the building that afternoon as the retiring McGavran prepared to leave for India. People: Frank Porter Graham, Edward G. McGavran Place: School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Abel Wolman, John J. WrightSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 116 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1963, p. 1
  7. Orange Democrats choose Edwin J. Hamlin for the state House by one vote Meeting over dinner at the General Sherman Restaurant, the county Democratic executive committee nominated Edwin J. Hamlin, publisher of the News of Orange County, over Young Democrats president Fred Cates by 28 to 27 to succeed L. J. Phipps in the state House. Governor Sanford was to appoint him for an expected special session on Senate redistricting. People: Luther James Phipps, Terry Sanford Place: General Sherman Restaurant, US 70 at Interstate 85 · Also named: Edwin J. Hamlin, Fred Cates · Also mentions: News of Orange CountySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1963, p. 1
  8. Governor Sanford appoints Edwin J. Hamlin to the House for Orange County Governor Terry Sanford appointed Edwin J. Hamlin, publisher of The News, to the House seat L. J. Phipps had left, a week after the county Democratic executive committee nominated him. Hamlin took his seat for the special session on Senate redistricting that opened October 14. Place: Orange County · Also named: Edwin J. Hamlin, L. J. PhippsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 12, 1963, p. 4
  9. North Carolina pays tribute to President Kennedy in Kenan Stadium About 18,000 people filled Kenan Stadium for the state's memorial program for John F. Kennedy, at which his mother, Rose Kennedy, accepted North Carolina's $230,000 gift toward the Kennedy Memorial Library. The Rev. Billy Graham gave the tribute address, and Gov. Terry Sanford was on the platform; admission came with a $10 gift to the library fund. People: Terry Sanford Place: Kenan Stadium, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Rose Kennedy, Billy Graham, John F. KennedySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 21, 1964, p. 1
  10. Guy B. Phillips Junior High School is dedicated with Gov. Sanford speaking Gov. Terry Sanford gave the dedicatory address for Chapel Hill's newly completed Guy B. Phillips Junior High School, and the retired education dean for whom it was named spoke in acknowledgment. The junior high grades moved there from the old West Franklin Street school. People: Terry Sanford Place: Guy B. Phillips Junior High School, Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. PhillipsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 28, 1964, p. 1
  11. Governor Sanford commutes the Chapel Hill demonstrators' sentences to court costs Gov. Terry Sanford commuted the jail terms and fines that Judge Raymond Mallard had given Chapel Hill civil rights demonstrators to payment of court costs, and thirteen defendants then dropped their appeals. All but two paid; in Hillsborough court over the holidays Mallard noted that the remaining two, field workers for SNCC and CORE, had not paid and were out of the state. People: Terry Sanford Place: Orange County Superior Court, Hillsborough · Also named: Raymond MallardThe Daily Tar Heel, January 6, 1965, p. 1
  12. Albert Coates starts the Institute of Civic Education in the University's Extension Division With no place offered by the Institute of Government or the law school, Coates set up an Institute of Civic Education under Extension Division director Charles Milner, paid for by the Richardson Foundation and a $50,000 yearly state appropriation approved by Governor Terry Sanford. In the summer of 1965 it brought high school civics and government teachers to Chapel Hill for short courses in state history and government. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Extension Division, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles Milner · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 272-273
  13. The Institute on State Programming for the 70's holds its organizing session at UNC Governors, former governors, legislators, federal officials, educators and businessmen met in Chapel Hill for the organizing session of the Institute on State Programming for the 70's, a two-and-a-half-year study of long-range planning for state governments based at the University on a $385,000 Carnegie grant. Former governor Terry Sanford, who conceived it, said UNC was chosen for its planning department and Institute of Government; former New Mexico governor Jack Campbell headed it. People: Terry Sanford Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack Campbell · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1967, p. 1
  14. Chancellor Sitterson joins the sponsors of a North Carolina committee to end the war in Indochina Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson agreed to co-sponsor a new committee, formed in Winston-Salem, that planned to use political contact and education to press for an end to the Vietnam war, alongside Duke president Terry Sanford and the heads of Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State and the School of the Arts. Sitterson said he acted personally and not for the University. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Terry Sanford Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1971, p. 1
  15. UNC students launch a petition drive to put Terry Sanford on the presidential primary ballot At a news conference in Chapel Hill, UNC law student Bill Blue kicked off a statewide Draft Sanford movement to gather the 10,000 signatures needed to put former Gov. Terry Sanford, then president of Duke University, on North Carolina's May presidential primary ballot, reading a letter in which Sanford said he would not campaign but would keep his options open. Blue announced on January 31 that the drive had passed 10,000 signatures on January 28 and set a new goal of 25,000. People: Terry Sanford Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill BlueSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 1972, p. 1
  16. Julian Bond, Terry Sanford, Linwood Holton and Ernest Hollings debate busing in Memorial Hall About 1,800 people packed Memorial Hall for the Carolina Symposium's panel on Southern politics, moderated by Vermont Royster, where Georgia legislator Julian Bond declared strong support for busing to achieve racial balance while Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and presidential candidate Terry Sanford called it one tool among others for quality education. Bond urged Southern Black voters to organize locally to take control of counties where they were the majority. People: Terry Sanford, Vermont Royster Place: Memorial Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julian Bond, Linwood Holton, Ernest HollingsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1972, p. 1
  17. Lady Bird Johnson visits Chapel Hill and Carrboro as the Orange County Young Democrats name their club for Lyndon Johnson Lady Bird Johnson signed books at the Chapel Hill Public Library, visited Carrboro Town Hall and Carrboro Elementary School, and that night joined about 175 people at the American Legion hall as the Orange County Young Democratic Club was named for her late husband. Mayor Howard Lee gave her a gold key to the town and called it the first LBJ Democratic club. People: Howard N. Lee, Terry Sanford Place: American Legion hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lady Bird Johnson · Also mentions: Carrboro Elementary School, Carrboro Town Hall, Chapel Hill Public LibrarySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1973, p. 4
  18. A bronze bust of Albert Coates is unveiled for the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies The Di-Phi societies received a bronze bust of Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government and professor emeritus of law, at a special assembly attended by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor and Duke president Terry Sanford. Gladys Coates unveiled the bust, sculpted by William E. Hipp III, for the societies' chambers. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates, N. Ferebee Taylor, Terry Sanford Place: Di-Phi chambers, New West, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William E. Hipp III, Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 20, 1976, p. 1
  19. UNC gives John Ehle its Distinguished Alumnus Award The university's 1984 citation, presented at the University Day ceremony in Memorial Hall on October 12, 1984, honored Ehle as a writer and for his work, beginning as special assistant to Governor Terry Sanford in 1963 and 1964, on the School of the Arts, the School of Science and Mathematics and the Governor's School. People: John Ehle, Terry Sanford Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · UNC Faculty Governance: Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Award, past recipients · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1984, p. 1
  20. Senate candidate Terry Sanford speaks in the Pit and backs student protest of apartheid Former governor and Duke president Terry Sanford, seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring John East, spoke to a midday crowd in the Pit, saying students should feel free to protest apartheid as the shanty builders had and that aid to the Contras should be phased out. People: Terry Sanford Place: The Pit, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1986, p. 1
  21. UNC names a cancer research laboratory for Judge Elbert S. Peel A basic-research laboratory in the Lineberger Cancer Research Center was named the Elbert S. Peel Cancer Research Laboratory at a dedication dinner on campus. Friends and colleagues of Peel, a Superior Court judge who died of cancer in 1984, had raised more than $65,000 for it; former UNC president William Friday presided and Sen. Terry Sanford spoke. People: William C. Friday, Terry Sanford Place: Lineberger Cancer Research Center, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill · Also named: Elbert S. PeelSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1987, p. 4
  22. Sen. Terry Sanford gives the University Day address in Memorial Hall At the convocation for the University's 194th anniversary, Sen. Terry Sanford told about 1,000 people in Memorial Hall that the country should abandon its fear of the Soviet Union; members of Action Against Apartheid stood along the walls with signs. People: Terry Sanford Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1987, p. 1
  23. Palestinian rights supporters rally as Sen. Terry Sanford receives a Jewish National Fund award About 50 people rallied outside the Omni Europa Hotel in Chapel Hill, where the Jewish National Fund gave Sen. Terry Sanford its Tree of Life Award, with signs asking Sanford to befriend Palestinians too, and handed him a statement urging him to press Israel to recognize Palestinian self-determination and statehood. The Carolina Association for Palestinian Human Rights and the state chapter of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee organized the rally. People: Terry Sanford Place: Omni Europa Hotel, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 27, 1989, p. 1
  24. Threshold, a national student environmental conference, meets at UNC The Campus Y's Student Environmental Action Coalition held Threshold, which it billed as the first national student environmental conference, drawing more than 1,600 people from 43 states and several countries to Memorial Hall and the campus for speakers including Sen. Terry Sanford, Randy Hayes, Barry Commoner and Earth Day's Denis Hayes, workshops and an Indigo Girls benefit concert. At a closing assembly in Forest Theatre participants voted to campaign first for protection of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. People: Terry Sanford Place: Memorial Hall and Forest Theatre, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 30, 1989, p. 1

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Histories 82Letters & correspondence 66Photographs & portraits 10Reports 10Statistics 6other types 8

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20th century 17World War II era 1

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Orange County 97North Carolina (statewide) 86Chapel Hill 61Durham County (neighboring) 8Hillsborough 7City of Durham (neighboring) 4

By Terry Sanford

Oral history interview with Terry Sanford, December 18, 1990: interview L-0050, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Sanford, Terry · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Terry Sanford (1917-1998), governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, talks with Cindy Cheatham in December 1990 about the student demonstrations in Chapel Hill during his term, when protesters pressed for a public accommodations law and university students supplied much of the energy. He also discusses Anne Queen (1911-2005) of the campus YMCA-YWCA and the political side of race relations in the state. A short interview, about half an hour; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2007 through Documenting the American South.

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Address ... at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill commencement exercises of 1964

Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 · 1964

Terry Sanford, then governor of North Carolina, spoke at the 1964 commencement exercises of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Kenan Stadium on the evening of June 1. The address runs twenty four leaves. It is grouped with the university's baccalaureate addresses for the commencement of 1964.

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Selection of correspondence to Paul M. Gross, Vice-President of Duke University, regarding the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology.

Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 · 1963

Letters, reports and meeting minutes sent to Duke vice president Paul M. Gross in 1963 about creating the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology and paying for a building. Governor Terry Sanford, George Watts Hill, William O. Baker of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Research Triangle Institute figure in the papers. 42 images.

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University values, the age of the people : university day address, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 12, 1987

Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 · 1987

Terry Sanford's University Day address, 'University values, the age of the people', delivered at Chapel Hill on 12 October 1987. Sanford lived from 1917 to 1998. Eight leaves of typescript in UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Address to Faculty Club.

Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 · 1963

Text of an address that Terry Sanford, governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, delivered to the Faculty Club at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. The address concerns education in North Carolina and the university.

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About Terry Sanford

A Generation of Change: Bill Friday, Terry Sanford, and North Carolina From the 1920s-1972

2015

A documentary on DVD, issued in 2015, following North Carolina from the 1920s to 1972 through the careers of university president William C. Friday and Governor Terry Sanford. Interviews with college presidents and governors carry the film, which takes in state politics, economic development and social conditions across those decades. Other figures include William B. Aycock, born in 1915.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.

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Oral history interview with Anne Barnes, January 30, 1989

Barnes, Anne Craig · 2006

Oral history interview with Anne Craig Barnes recorded on January 30, 1989 and issued in 2006. Barnes represented Orange County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, and topics include women in politics, the National Women's Political Caucus, the state Democratic Party, Terry Sanford and Howard Lee of Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.

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Oral history interview with Floyd McKissick, December 6, 1973 interview A-0134, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

McKissick, Floyd B. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991), interviewed by Jack Bass and Walter DeVries on December 6, 1973 for the Southern Oral History Program. McKissick, who broke the color line at the UNC School of Law and later led the Congress of Racial Equality from 1966, looks back over a life in politics and activism, from civil rights work before and after the Second World War to support for the student sit-ins of the 1960s. He also discusses Terry Sanford, segregation in transportation and the Soul City project. Fifty-seven minutes. Electronic edition 2007.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.

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UNC bicentennial, October 12, 1993

Morton, Hugh M. · 1993

Color slide by Hugh Morton from the bicentennial ceremonies in Kenan Stadium on 12 October 1993. Charles Kuralt and Terry Sanford are in the second row, with UNC President C. D. Spangler and Governor Jim Hunt in the front.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 1-16, University Professors

1992

Completed questionnaires numbered 1 to 16, from university professors, in the 1992 Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey of the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women, 81 images. Respondents came from Orange, Durham, Wake, Cumberland and Catawba counties, and the survey asked about women's work in fields long dominated by men and about sex discrimination on the job.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 101-117, Professionals

Williams, Suzanne E. · 1992

Questionnaires from 1992 filled out by women professionals, numbers 101 to 117 in the Council on the Status of Women's survey of women in non-traditional fields, 88 images, with Suzanne E. Williams named as creator. Counties represented include Orange, Alamance, Chatham, Durham, New Hanover and Wake.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 119-133, Professionals

1992

Responses 119 to 133 to a 1992 survey of women in non-traditional fields, these from professionals, kept in the public relations file of the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women, 75 images. Counties represented include Orange, Durham, Wake, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Lee, Cumberland and Tyrrell.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 134-147, Professionals

1992

Fourteen professionals answered questionnaires 134 to 147 of the Council on the Status of Women's 1992 survey of women working in non-traditional fields. The 71 images cover respondents from Orange, Durham, Wake, Johnston, Hoke and New Hanover counties, with sex discrimination in employment as a theme.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 148-161, Professionals

1992

Survey forms 148 to 161 from the 1992 Women in Non-traditional Fields questionnaire of the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women, filled out by professionals in Orange, Durham, Wake, Guilford, Forsyth and Caswell counties. Seventy-one images.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 17-35, University Students

1992

University students answered questionnaires 17 to 35 of the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women's 1992 survey of women in non-traditional fields, 95 images. Counties represented include Orange, Durham, Wake, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Hoke, Carteret, Craven, Lenoir and Martin.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Council on the Status of Women, Public Relations File, Women in Non-traditional Fields Survey, Number 70-84, Professionals

1992

Questionnaires 70 to 84, from professionals, in the 1992 survey of women in non-traditional fields conducted by the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women, 75 images. Counties represented include Orange, Durham, Wake, Mecklenburg, Buncombe, Johnston, New Hanover and Robeson, and Middle Eastern Americans also figure.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · 975.6 DRE Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat A Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South Drescher, John · 2000

    The 1960 Democratic primary for governor, in which Terry Sanford, campaigning on education and a moderate line on integration, beat the segregationist law professor I. Beverly Lake, is the subject of John Drescher's book. Part campaign history and part biography of Sanford, it argues that his approach became a model for later Southern Democrats such as Jim Hunt, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2000.

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Picture: Terry Sanford, portrait plate, 1961. Public domain. North Carolina Manual, Secretary of State, 1961; via Wikimedia Commons

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