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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 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

101 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 5 works by Terry Sanford.

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

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Material

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

Period

20th century 17World War II era 1

Place

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.

UNC

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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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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.

UNC

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.

UNC

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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.

Durham

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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: 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.

Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.

NC Digital Collections DPLA

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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.

Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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.

Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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.

Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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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.

Life and Orange County connections

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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 CoatesSearch 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. FridaySearch 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.In 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 SanfordSearch 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. FridaySearch 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 SanfordSearch 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 SanfordSearch 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 SanfordSearch 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. 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.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Hillsborough Since 1963
  10. 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: Terry SanfordSearch 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
  11. UNC gives John Ehle its Distinguished Alumnus Award The university's 1984 citation 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: Terry SanfordSearch the index · UNC Faculty Governance: Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Award, past recipients

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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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