On May 4, 1965 Sandy McClamroch, owner of radio station WCHL, won a third term as mayor of Chapel Hill over Dr. Clifton E. Crandell, 1,656 to 477 in the unofficial count, and Mary Prothro, Bob Varley and Gordon Kage led the field of six for the Board of Aldermen. Voters elected Grey Culbreth, Mrs. Ross Scroggs and Dr. Roy Lindahl to six-year terms on the Chapel Hill school board. Before the 1967 election the Daily Tar Heel reported that several precinct registrars had told students to vote at home and that on the last registration day one refused students living in University dormitories while another registered all who asked. On May 2, 1967 McClamroch beat Raymond M. Williams, 1,502 to 442. Voters returned aldermen Roland Giduz and R. D. Smith, brought back Mrs. James W. Prothro and elected David Ethridge, while F. E. (Gene) Strowd lost the seat he had held for 12 years. Neill Rosser and Paul Gutherie Jr. won seats on the city school board, and incumbent Dr. Richard Peters lost.
On May 4, 1971 Howard Lee won a second term as mayor over Jack Maultsby, and R. D. Smith led the aldermen's race, followed by Alice Welsh, newcomer James C. Wallace and Joe Nassif, while Steve Bernholz lost his seat. Carrboro elected Alderman Robert Wells mayor over Jim Cashwell, 476 to 211, with four newcomers on its board. In August 1973 law student Gerry Cohen became, the paper said, the first to announce for the Chapel Hill board, Wells announced for re-election, and in September Edwin Caldwell, the only Black member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, said he would run for the seat he had held by appointment since 1971. On November 6, 1973, in Chapel Hill's first November town election, Lee won a third term, 5,001 to 1,109, and Shirley Marshall, Cohen, Tommy Gardner and Sid Rancer were elected aldermen; the Daily Tar Heel called Cohen the first UNC student to serve on the board. Carrboro re-elected Wells without opposition and chose Braxton Foushee, the only Black candidate, law student George Beswick and John Boone as aldermen. Voters returned Caldwell and Norman Weatherly to the school board and elected Marie Peachee Wicker, and on the same ballot Orange County, unlike the state, voted for liquor by the drink.
In the summer of 1975 George Coxhead and Roland Giduz founded Citizens for Chapel Hill, a political group the press called conservative, which endorsed James C. Wallace and six aldermen candidates; only two of the six won. On November 4, 1975, in the town's first election under its new charter and the first for a four-year mayoral term, Wallace, a North Carolina State University professor and environmental activist, defeated Alderman Gerry Cohen 3,939 to 2,274 to succeed Howard Lee. Voters filled five seats on a Board of Aldermen enlarged from six to eight members, electing Planning Board chairman Jonathan Howes, economist Ed Vickery, lawyer Robert Epting, incumbent R. D. Smith and physics professor Marvin Silver from 14 candidates; William H. Thorpe, one of two Black candidates, finished sixth, 49 votes behind Silver. They also approved $275,000 in sewer bonds for southeastern Chapel Hill and $250,000 to pave bus routes. In Carrboro the Carrboro Community Coalition, which had campaigned for a town bus system, planning and recreation, gained the board: Ruth West, who had once worked in the old mill and made saving it a main plank, beat Fred Chamblee 777 to 549 for mayor, and voters elected the coalition's Robert Drakeford and Ernie Patterson and Lacy C. Farrell of the opposing bloc as aldermen. Phyllis Sockwell and James Riddle unseated school board incumbents Peachee Wicker and Samuel Holton after a public split over closed board meetings. In September 1977 West, 67, said she would not seek a second term, since the issues she ran on had been met or nearly met, and on November 8 Drakeford, an alderman since 1975, won the mayor's race over John Boone with 57 percent of the vote. The Daily Tar Heel's account calls him the town's first Black mayor; he served until 1983.
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More than a mentoring program : attacking institutional racism
Meyer, Graig M. · 2018 · Information Age Publishing
Graig M. Meyer's 2018 account, written with George Noblit, of a youth mentoring program in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools that set out to attack institutional racism and close racial achievement gaps. Chapters lay out an antiracist mentoring model, racial identity development, advocacy at the system level, staffing and leadership, and a culture of continuous improvement. Published by Information Age Publishing, 211 pages, online.
Oral history interview with Sam Holton, March 28, 2001: interview K-0206, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Holton, Samuel M. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Samuel M. Holton (1922-2010) sat on Chapel Hill's school board during desegregation. Elected in 1968 after a term as PTA president, he took office as racial tension rose after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Talking with Jenny Matthews in March 2001, he describes the board's decisions on integrating the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the conflicts that came with them. Runs about eighty minutes; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2007 through Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Edwin Caldwell, March 2, 2001: interview K-0202, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Caldwell, Edwin · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Edwin Caldwell, Jr. reviews a life in Chapel Hill politics in a three-hour Southern Oral History Program interview recorded March 2, 2001, by Oliver White. A skilled organizer, Caldwell worked in the campaign that made Howard Lee the town's first Black mayor in 1969, ran for office more than once without winning, and became a local political power. The conversation also covers race relations, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board and the Church of Reconciliation. Published online in 2006 in Documenting the American South.
The effects of desegregation on selected variables in the Chapel Hill city school system
Prichard, Paul Newton, 1935- · 1969
Paul Newton Prichard's 1969 study of what desegregation changed in the Chapel Hill city school system, measured against academic achievement and other selected variables. Topics include school integration and achievement in the town, and a bibliography runs to page 115. Written during the district's own desegregation years, which makes it a contemporary source as well as a study.
The Courage to Lead: One Man's Journey in Public Service
Lee, Howard N. · 2008 · Cotton Patch Press
Howard N. Lee (born 1934) tells his own story, from a farm childhood in Lithonia, Georgia, through college, army service in Korea at Camp Casey and the move from Savannah that planted him in Chapel Hill, to his election as mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969 and his later run for Congress and years in the state legislature. Published by Cotton Patch Press of Chapel Hill in 2008, 199 pages with plates.
Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000: interview K-0536, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Clark, Rebecca · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Interview recorded June 21, 2000 with Rebecca Clark (1915-2009), a Black Chapel Hill resident, for the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Clark, educated in Chapel Hill's segregated schools, describes working life under segregation and the economic discrimination she met in it. Topics also include Lincoln High School, school integration, and Howard Lee, elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969. Interview K-0536 in collection #4007.
My life of breaking barriers, building bridges, and making history
Lee, Howard, 1934- · 2021 · North Caroliniana Society
Howard N. Lee's account of his own career, published in 2021 by the North Caroliniana Society with the society award given to him that year, together with tributes from Angela Lee, Valerie Foushee and others. Lee became mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969, the town's first Black mayor.
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.
About Roland Giduz · named in 2 of this story’s entries
Almanac with Roland Giduz : Kenan Memorial Stadium.
1997
Half hour television program from the Almanac series hosted by Roland Giduz, filmed in September 1997 at Kenan Memorial Stadium on the University of North Carolina campus. Topics include the stadium itself and Carolina football. One videocassette in color with sound, running thirty minutes, from a local broadcaster who reported on Chapel Hill for decades.
Collected columns of Roland Giduz, 1953-1982.
Giduz, Roland · 1997 · North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Roland Giduz's newspaper columns from 1953 to 1982, bound in fifteen illustrated volumes. Most ran as Newsman's Notepad, in papers that included the Chapel Hill Weekly, the News of Orange County, the Chapel Hill News Leader and the Chapel Hill Newspaper. The North Carolina Collection made the copies from Giduz's own clipping file in spring 1997; an index is cataloged separately.
Index to Roland Giduz's column in the Chapel Hill weekly and the Chapel Hill newspaper.
Giduz, Roland · 1996 · North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Index to the newspaper column Roland Giduz wrote for the Chapel Hill Weekly and the Chapel Hill Newspaper, printed on paper in June 1996 from his own card file by the North Carolina Collection. One unpaged volume.
H.G. Jones, interviewed by Roland Giduz on "Chapel Hill Almanac".
1990 · Carolina Cable
An episode of the local cable program 'Chapel Hill Almanac' in which Roland Giduz interviews H. G. Jones, the historian long associated with the North Carolina Collection at the UNC Chapel Hill library. Recorded for Carolina Cable in 1990, one videocassette running 27 minutes in color.
Wider background: Politics & Government · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
William Friday
Link, William A. · 1995
Biography of William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, by historian William A. Link, published by UNC Press in 1995 with the subtitle power, purpose, and American higher education. It covers Friday's career and the history of the university at Chapel Hill and statewide. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
The Story of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coates, Albert McKinley · 1981
Albert Coates's own account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, which he founded, subtitled 'out of a classroom in Chapel Hill' and published in 1981. The 303 pages trace the institute's history and its role in educating North Carolina's public officials.
Communists on Campus
Billingsley, William J. · 1999 · University of Georgia Press
William J. Billingsley's history of the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 North Carolina statute that barred known Communists from speaking on state campuses, and the fight over it at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The subtitle sets the scope: race, politics and the public university in sixties North Carolina. It treats academic freedom, anti-communist movements and free speech in the state. University of Georgia Press, 1999, 308 pages with eight pages of plates.
Reviewed in Academe (2000), The American Historical Review (2001), The Journal of Southern History (2001), Journal of American History (2001), The Journal of Politics (2001).
Frank Porter Graham and the 1950 Senate Race in North Carolina
Pleasants, Julian M.; Burns, Augustus M., III · 1990 · UNC Press
Julian M. Pleasants and Augustus M. Burns III on the 1950 Democratic Senate primary in North Carolina, in which Frank Porter Graham, the former president of the University of North Carolina, lost to Willis Smith after a campaign marked by race-baiting. Primaries, elections and race relations in the state are its subjects. Published by UNC Press in 1990, 356 pages with illustrations.
Reviewed in Choice Reviews Online (1991), The American Historical Review (1991), Journal of American History (1991), The Journal of Southern History (1992).
The Age of Orange: Political and Intellectual Leadership in North Carolina, 1752-1861
Blackwelder, Ruth · 1961
Ruth Blackwelder's study of political and intellectual leadership in Orange County and North Carolina from 1752 to 1861, published in Charlotte by W. Loftin in 1961. Topics include state politics and government, intellectual life before the Civil War, and county genealogy. It runs 216 pages with illustrations and a bibliography. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
Nash, Frank · 1953
Francis Nash's history of Hillsborough in colonial and Revolutionary times, first published in 1903 and reprinted in 1953 by Edwards & Broughton with an index and a sketch of the author. Topics include the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, the Revolution and local genealogy.
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The Good Government Man
Covington, Jr., Howard E. · 2010
Howard E. Covington Jr.'s biography of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the law professor who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and led it through its early years. Topics include Coates as a law teacher and the institute's history as a center for the study of public administration in Chapel Hill. Published in 2010 by the University Library at Chapel Hill, 322 pages with 32 pages of plates.
Frank Porter Graham: A Southern Liberal
Ashby, Warren H. · 1981 · Blair
Warren Ashby's biography of Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina from 1930 to 1949 and later a United States senator. Published by Blair in 1981, x and 386 pages with sixteen leaves of plates and a bibliography.
Reviewed in The American Historical Review (1981), Journal of American History (1981).
Orange County, 1752-1952
Lefler, Hugh Talmage; Wager, Paul W. · 1953
Hugh Talmage Lefler and Paul W. Wager's history of Orange County across its first two centuries, 1752 to 1952, prepared for the county's bicentennial. It covers government and politics, biography and the county's families, and doubles as a genealogical reference. Published in Chapel Hill by the Orange Printshop in 1953, 389 pages with illustrations and an index; this copy is a later reprint.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1954).
A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent
Smith, Michael Thomas · 2003 · University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Michael Thomas Smith's biography of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the University of North Carolina chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 after he declared support for the antislavery presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Published by University of Delaware Press in 2003, 216 pages with illustrations. Topics include abolitionists and dissenters in North Carolina, the antislavery movement in the state, and the university's biography before 1962.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2005).
The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum
Mangum, Willie Person · 1950 · State Dept. of Archives and History
The papers of Willie Person Mangum, 1792 to 1861, a lawyer, judge and United States senator from the part of Orange County that later became Durham County. Five volumes of correspondence published by the State Department of Archives and History beginning in 1950, arranged by date from 1807 to 1894, with illustrations, portraits and folding maps. A source for antebellum North Carolina and national politics, the Whig Party and the Mangum family.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1951), Journal of American History (1951), The Journal of Southern History (1953), Journal of American History (1953), The Journal of Southern History (1954), The Journal of Southern History (1955), The Journal of Southern History (1957), Journal of American History (1957), The American Historical Review (1957).
An Historical Address Delivered in Saint Matthew's Church, Hillsboro, N.C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924
Cheshire, Joseph Blount · 1925
Address by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on 24 August 1924, marking the parish's hundredth anniversary. Printed in Durham in 1925 at the vestry's order, with a foreword by the rector. Cheshire discusses George Micklejohn, William Mercer Green and Moses Ashley Curtis.
