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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Richard J. Richardson Papers Inventory #04266, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Richard J. Richardson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 1981 (Acc. 81040), June 1996 (Acc. 96102), June 2000 (Acc. 98653), and August 2012 (101641).

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Updated: April 2019

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• College administrators--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• College students--Arkansas--Social life and customs.
• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Foreign study--Ireland--History--20th century.
• Hagan, John Patrick.
• Harding College--Students--Social life and customs.
• High school students--Missouri--History--20th century.
• Missouri--Social life and customs.
• Political science--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina.
• Political scientists--United States--History--20th century.
• Richardson, Richard J.
• Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)--Students--Social life and customs.
• Tulane University--Students--Social life and customs.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Administration.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Centennial celebrations, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History--20th century.

Richard Judson Richardson was born in Poplar Bluff, Mo., in 1935. After receiving his B.S. in Public Affairs from Harding College in Arkansas in 1957 and attending the University of Dublin as a Rotary Foundation Fellow, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Tulane University. He taught at Tulane, Western Michigan University, and the University of Hawaii before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. There, in addition to his teaching, he served as chairman of the political science department from 1975 to 1980 and was active on numerous university committees, chairing the University of North Carolina Bicentennial Observance Committee. From 1995 to 2000, Richardson provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Materials of Richard J. Richardson include many that relate to his service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill papers include general subject files; materials documenting Richardson's involvement in the planning and observance of UNC's bicentennial celebration; and papers of John Patrick Hagan, a student of Richardson's who earned his Ph.D. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and who died in an automobile accident while completing a visiting professorship at the University. In addition to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill materials, there are also documents created during and prior to Richardson's years as a student at Caruthersville High School in Caruthersville, Mo.; papers from Richardson's undergraduate years at Harding College; papers from his year in Dublin, Ireland, on a Rotary Foundation fellowship; and documents relating to his graduate school years at Tulane University and his early as a college teacher. There are also recordings of two of Richardson's speeches, a videotape about University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's honor system, and a few photographs.

• Audiocassettes: C-4366/1-4
• Image folders: PF-4266/1-9
• Oversize paper folders: OPF-4266/1b
• Videotapes: VT-4266/1-2