African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Cochrane, William McWhorter, 1917-
Collection number: 5079
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Abstract: William McWhorter Cochrane (1917- ) of Newton and Chapel Hill, N.C., and Washington, D.C., worked for the United States Senate in various capacities for more than 40 Continue reading “William McWhorter Cochrane papers, 1862-2002.”
Creator: Kornegay, Horace Robinson, 1924-2009.
Collection number: 3811
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Abstract: Howard Robinson Kornegay was a United States representative from the 6th Congressional District of North Carolina to the 87th through 90th Congresses (January Continue reading “Horace Robinson Kornegay papers, 1961-1967.”
Creator: Daly, Laura Randolph.
Collection number: 5184-z
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Abstract: Laura Randolph Daly was an instructor in the 1910s through the 1930s at Snow Hill Institute in Snow Hill, Ala., and at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. She later worked for the United States government in the Office Continue reading “Laura Randolph Daly papers, 1906-1941.”
Creator: Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991.
Collection number: 3826
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Abstract: Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Science and joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1927, retiring in 1969. In 1923, he married Guion Continue reading “Guy Benton Johnson papers, 1830-1987.”
Creator: Elliott, Habersham.
Collection number: 2510
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Abstract: Chiefly letters from John Barnwell Elliott (1841-1921) while a Confederate soldier on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, in Charleston, in Paris after the Civil War, and as a Continue reading “Habersham Elliott papers, 1820-1898 (bulk 1840-1898).”
Creator: Outlaw, David, 1806-1868.
Collection number: 1534
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Abstract: Whig congressman from Bertie County, N.C. Chiefly correspondence of Outlaw to his wife while he was a member of Congress, 1847-1853. Subjects discussed are state and national Continue reading “David Outlaw papers, 1847-1855; 1866.”
Creator: Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985.
Collection number: 3847A
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Abstract: Samuel James Ervin was an eminent North Carolina lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, and United States Senator, 1954-1974. Ervin chaired the Senate Select Committee Continue reading “Sam J. Ervin Senate records, 1954-1974 (Subgroup A).”
Creator: Fendall, Philip Ricard, 1794-1868.
Collection number: 3153
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Abstract: Manuscript draft of a speech or treatise on the aims, policies, activities, and effects of the American Colonization Society. The paper is unsigned but is attributed to Fendall, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and author. Continue reading “Philip Ricard Fendall paper, undated.”
Creator: Powell, William Stevens, 1919-, collector.
Collection number: 3300
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Abstract: Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two Continue reading “Material for Iredell and adjacent counties, N.C., 1793-1924 (bulk 1867-1901).”
Creator: Gardner, James Carson, 1933-
Collection number: 3829
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Abstract: U.S. Representative of Rocky Mount, N.C.; later lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Congressional office files of Gardner of Rocky Mount, N.C., U.S. Representative from the 4th District (Nash, Wake, Orange, Chatham, Continue reading “James Carson Gardner congressional and political papers, 1967-1968.”