Chancellor Taylor at Morehead Planetarium
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor of UNC-Chapel Hill stands before the sundial at Morehead Planetarium in June 1973, on a color slide by Hugh Morton.
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N. Ferebee Taylor
Nelson Ferebee Taylor was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 February 1972 to 31 January 1980. His office's records cover desegregation, the federal Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development.
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- N. Ferebee Taylor serves as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill Nelson Ferebee Taylor was the chief administrative officer of the Chapel Hill campus for eight years. His office's records deal with desegregation, the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development.Search the index · UNC University Archives: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Nelson Ferebee Taylor Records #40023
- Chancellor Taylor spends a night in Winston Residence Hall Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and other administrators stayed overnight in Winston Residence Hall to draw attention to overcrowded student housing. The same year Winston became UNC's first room-by-room coed residence hall.Search the index · UNC A to Z: Winston Residence Hall
- Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall Black students filled the pit of Memorial Hall and kept Ku Klux Klan representative David Duke, invited by the Union Forum, from giving his speech. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor called the disruption a transgression of one of the university's highest traditions.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Ku Klux Klan Representative David Duke (A Right to Speak and to Hear)
- Pauli Murray declines an honorary degree from UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor wrote to Murray on February 10, 1978 offering her an honorary Doctor of Laws at the commencement of May 14, 1978. Murray declined, citing the University's dispute with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare over dismantling segregation and her refusal to share the platform with Governor Jim Hunt. People: N. Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Pauli Murray and UNC, 1976-1978 Honorary degree
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- Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Pauli Murray 1 entry: Pauli Murray declines an honorary degree from UNC (1978)
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- Background context: Ku Klux Klan Representative David Duke (A Right to Speak and to Hear) UNC-Chapel Hill
- Background context: Pauli Murray and UNC, 1976-1978 Honorary degree UNC-Chapel Hill
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Picture: N. Ferebee Taylor, Yackety Yack, 1942. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1942 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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