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Collection Overview
| Size | 16.5 feet of linear shelf space |
| Abstract | The papers of white jurist I. Beverly Lake Sr. document his career as an assistant attorney general for the State of North Carolina, a two-time candidate for governor of North Carolina who campaigned as a proponent of segregation, an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and a lawyer in private practice after he retired from the court. Materials include correspondence, speeches, Sunday school lectures, legal papers, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Topics of note are the North Carolina gubernatorial campaigns of 1960 and 1964; racial segregation, especially religious justifications and legal strategies and groups who organized around opposition to desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education; Lake's place in Democratic and Republican party politics at local, state, and national levels; alleged voting irregularities surrounding his son I. Beverly Lake Jr.'s election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1992; and Lake's affiliation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. |
| Creator | Lake, I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly), 1906-1996. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, Laura Hart, Biff Hollingsworth, Amy Morgan, Anne Wells, May 2018
Encoded by: Laura Smith
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2020
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Biographical Information
I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake (1906-1996) was an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and two-time unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina who campaigned as a proponent of segregation.
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Scope and Content
The papers of white jurist I. Beverly Lake Sr. originally consisted of one letter, 7 February 1982, from Lake to Denise Cumbee Long, a former law student, discussing her decision to continue her career as an attorney, as well as Lake's views on activism, the New Deal, and justice. The addition of February 2018 expanded the scope of the collection to documentation of I. Beverly Lake Sr. as an assistant attorney general for the State of North Carolina, a two-time candidate for governor of North Carolina, an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and a lawyer in private practice after he retired from the court.
Materials include correspondence; speeches and Sunday school lectures; legal papers, including briefs and transcripts of oral arguments; printed materials, including newspaper clippings, pamphlets, booklets, and leaflets; scrapbooks; photographs; and audiovisual materials. Topics of note are the North Carolina gubernatorial campaigns of 1960 and 1964; racial segregation, especially religious justifications and legal strategies for state-sponsored resistance to implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in North Carolina; groups who organized around opposition to desegregation, such as the Patriots of North Carolina Inc., or in support of Lake's pro-segregation stance, such as "Lake People," a network of Lake's grassroots campaign volunteers; Lake's place in Democratic and Republican party politics at local, state, and national levels, including his support and then public withdrawal of support for Robert Morgan running for the U.S. Senate in 1974; alleged voting irregularities surrounding his son I. Beverly Lake Jr.'s election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1992; and Lake's affiliation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Photographs and audiovisual materials chiefly relate to campaign events from the 1960 and 1964 gubernatorial elections, including rallies, open forums, radio addresses, and advertisements. Other audiovisual materials include audio recordings of N.C. Defenders of States Rights and federal court arguments; a motion picture film documenting Beverly Lake's speech in support of Dan K. Moore for Governor of North Carolina; and a video recording of a Sons of Confederate Veterans event.
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Series 1. Papers, 1950-1996.
Acquisitions Information: Original deposit (Acc. 102500) is filed in box 1; all other materials received as an addition (Acc. 130326).
Processing information: Titles compiled from original containers when available.
The papers of white jurist I. Beverly Lake Sr. document his career as an assistant attorney general for the State of North Carolina, an unsuccessful candidate for governor of North Carolina, an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and a lawyer in private practice after he retired from the court. Materials include correspondence; speeches and Sunday school lectures; legal papers, including briefs and transcripts of oral arguments; printed materials, including newspaper clippings, pamphlets, booklets, and leaflets; and scrapbooks. Topics of note are the North Carolina gubernatorial campaigns of 1960 and 1964; racial segregation, especially religious justifications and legal strategies for state-sponsored resistance to implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in North Carolina; groups who organized around opposition to desegregation, such as the Patriots of North Carolina Inc., or in support of Lake's pro-segregation stance, such as "Lake People," a network of Lake's grassroots campaign volunteers; Lake's place in Democratic and Republican party politics at local, state, and national levels, including his support and then public withdrawal of support for Robert Morgan running for the U.S. Senate in 1974; alleged voting irregularities surrounding his son I. Beverly Lake Jr.'s election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1992; and Lake's affiliation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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Series 2. Photographs, 1960-1980s.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 130326.
Arrangement: chronological.
Photographs chiefly depict campaign events from 1960 and 1964 gubernatorial elections.
| Image Box 1 |
Campaign events, 1960 |
Campaign events, 1964 |
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Portrait, 1962 |
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Wake Forest Law School reunion, 1980s. |
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"Just married," 1980s |
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Lake and 9th Kentucky Regiment |
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Series 3. Audiovisual Materials, 1959-1991 and undated.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 130326.
Arrangement: Roughly alphabetical by format.
Processing information: Titles compiled from original containers.
Access Restriction: the majority of the acetate 16mm motion picture film prints have severe vinegar syndrome and may not be playable at this time.
Audiovisual materials and related documention related to I. Beverly Lake's 1960 political campaign for Governor of North Carolina. These materials include audio recordings of open forums and radio addresses, as well as motion picture films of campaign rallies (F-05672/3-6) and campaign advertisements (F-05672/7-12). Other materials include audio recordings on N.C. Defenders of States Rights (T-05672/1) and federal court oral arguments (C-05672/1); a 1965 motion picture film documenting Beverly Lake's speech in support of Dan K. Moore for Governor of North Carolina (F-05672/13); a Beverly Lake speech given at a North Carolina North Carolina Furniture Manufacturing Association meeting circa 1962 (F-05672/15); a 1990 video recording of a Sons of Confederate Veterans event; and unidentified materials. Recordings are on 1/4" Open Reel Audio, Audiocassette, 16mm motion picture film, and VHS videotape. Related audiovisual documention consists of notes and memos found with select recordings.
| Box 12 |
Audiovisual Documentation: notes and memos |
| Audiotape T-05672/1 |
Dr. Dale Alford, address to N.C. Defenders of States Rights, Greensboro, N.C., 8 September 19591/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/2 |
Dr. I. Beverly Lake Sr., 1964 gubernatorial primary, 19641/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/3 |
Dr. Lake, programs 6, 7 and 81/4" Open Reel Audio 5" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/4 |
Dr. Lake, programs 6, 7 and 81/4" Open Reel Audio 5" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/5 |
Dr. Lake, programs 6, 7 and 81/4" Open Reel Audio 5" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/6 |
Dr. Lake, programs 6, 7 and 81/4" Open Reel Audio 5" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/7 |
Dr. Lake, programs 6, 7 and 81/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/8 |
Project Sixty, open forum on race relations, 19601/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/9 |
Leroy Scott, WRRF Washington, 14 June 19601/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/10 |
R. L. Shuford, III, radio address on states rights in behalf of Dr. I. Beverly Lake Sr.'s gubernatorial campaign1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/11 |
TN weather1/4" Open Reel Audio 3" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/12 |
John Wilkinson, 19 June 19601/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/13 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/14 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/15 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/16 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/17 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/18 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/19 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/20 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/21 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/22 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiotape T-05672/23 |
[unidentified sound recording]1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel |
| Audiocassette C-05672/1 |
Justice I. Beverly Lake, Sr., Federal court oral argument, 8 November 1991Audiocassette |
| Film F-05672/1 |
Dr. Lake, 15 minute program, 7 June 196016mm motion picture film 525 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/2 |
Dr. Lake, 15 minute program, 7 June 196016mm motion picture film 525 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound)Possible duplicate of F-05672/1 |
| Film F-05672/3 |
Lake for Governor, Rocky Mount rally, Rocky Mount, N.C., May 196016mm motion picture film 1100 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/4 |
Lake for Governor, New Bern rally, New Bern, N.C., 3 June 196016mm motion picture film 1000 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/5 |
Lake for Governor, Durham rally, WSJS, Durham, N.C., 24 June 196016mm motion picture film 1100 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/6 |
Lake for Governor, Durham rally, Durham, N.C.,16mm motion picture film 1100 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/7 |
Lake for Governor, "Attraction for Industry"16mm motion picture film 175 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/8 |
Lake for Governor, "Attraction for Industry"16mm motion picture film 175 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/9 |
Lake for Governor, "Integration"16mm motion picture film 175 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/10 |
Lake for Governor, "N.C. Courts"16mm motion picture film 150 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/11 |
Lake for Governor, "N.C. Courts"16mm motion picture film 150 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/12 |
Lake for Governor, "Public Schools"16mm motion picture film 150 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/13 |
Beverly Lake speech in support of Moore for Governor, 7 July 196416mm motion picture film 1100 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/14 |
[unidentified motion picture film]16mm motion picture film 1000 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/15 |
[Beverly Lake speech at the North Carolina Furniture Manufacturing Association meeting, circa 1962]16mm motion picture film 1100 feet acetate ; black and white ; sound (optical sound) |
| Film F-05672/16 |
[Dr. Lake, 15 minute program]16mm motion picture film 550 feet polyester ; black and white ; sound (optical sound)Appears to be from the same series as F-05672/1, but contains unique content. |
| Videotape VT-05672/1 |
Lake for Governor, Rocky Mount rally, 19 May 1960VHS most likely video copy of F-05672/3 |
| Videotape VT-05672/2 |
Dr. I. Beverly Lake Sr., Sons of Confederate Veterans, George Davis Camp, 1990VHS |
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