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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 600 items) |
Abstract | James Gordon Hanes (1916-1995) was a Winston-Salem manufacturer and North Carolina state senator. The collection includes papers accumulated by J. Gordon Hanes as member of the North Carolina Commission to Study the Statutes Relating to Visiting Speakers at State-Supported Educational Institutions (Speaker Ban Study Commission). Included are transcripts of testimony at public hearings held by the commission, August-September 1965; papers pertaining to the succeeding special session of the General Assembly; items concerned with subsequent regulations of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees and a lawsuit contesting the regulations; and notes, speeches, and other related papers of Hanes. |
Creator | Hanes, J. Gordon (James Gordon), 1916-1995. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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James Gordon Hanes (1916-1995) was a Winston-Salem manufacturer and North Carolina state senator. Hanes served two terms, 1963-1966, and was a member of the Commission to Study the Statutes Relating to Visiting Speakers at State Supported Educational Institutions (Speaker Ban Study Commission). The commission was created by the General Assembly of North Carolina, June 1965, at the request of Governor Dan K. Moore, and the commissioners were appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house. David M. Britt was chairman of the nine-member study group. The members met together and also worked separately on the study; the comission held public hearings in August and September 1965 in Raleigh, N.C., and submitted a report to the governor in November 1965. As a result, the governor called for a special session of the legislature that amended the act of 26 June 1963 (H. B. 1395), officially titled "An Act to Regulate Visiting Speakers at State Supported Colleges and Universities" but referred to as the Speaker Ban.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers accumulated by J. Gordon Hanes as member of the North Carolina Commission to Study the Statutes Relating to Visiting Speakers at State-Supported Educational Institutions (Speaker Ban Study Commission). Included are transcripts of testimony at public hearings held by the commission, August-September 1965; papers pertaining to the succeeding special session of the General Assembly; items concerned with subsequent regulations of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees and a lawsuit contesting the regulations; and notes, speeches, and other related papers of Hanes.
Back to TopPaper-bound transcripts of the public hearings before the Speaker Ban Study Commission, verbatim record of testimony and proceedings at the State Legislative Building, Raleigh, N.C.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Volume 1: 11 August 1965, 10 a.m.Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (Emmett B. Fields, Dean of Vanderbilt University). |
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: 11 August 1965, 2 p.m.North Carolina Board of Higher Education (Howard Boozer). |
Folder 3 |
Volume 3: 12 August 1965, 10 a.m.American Association of University Professors (Dawson, Fiddler, et al.) |
Folder 4 |
Volume 4: 12 August 1965, 2 p.m.American Legion, et al. (A.C. Jordan, Senator Morgan, Clarence Stone, Henry Royal, etc>) |
Folder 5-6
Folder 5Folder 6 |
Volumes 5, 6: 8 September 1965Administrative officers and trustees of UNC and other state supported colleges. |
Folder 7 |
Volume 7: 9 September 1965Students, individuals, representatives of organizations, alumni of the University, etc. |
Folder 8 |
1963Items include a copy of the legislative act (H.B.1395) of 26 June 1963, regulating visiting speakers at state supported colleges; and a copy of the state attorney general's opinion of its constitutionality, August 1963. |
Folder 9 |
April 1965 |
Folder 10 |
June 1965 |
Folder 11-12
Folder 11Folder 12 |
July 1965 |
Folder 13-15
Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15 |
August 1965 |
Folder 16-22
Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22 |
September 1965 |
Folder 23 |
October 1965 |
Folder 24-26
Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
November-December 1965Letters, the Commission's report to the governor on 5 November 1965; the governor's statement, proclamation, and call for a special session of the legislature. Senator Hanes's speech to the special session which was held 15-17 November 1965, and other items relating to the session. |
Folder 27 |
1966Items are concerned with the action of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina in implementing the amended statute, and the civil suit in Federal district court brought against the University for barring two speakers. |
Folder 28 |
Torch Club Speech: Speaker Ban ControversyJ. Gordon Hanes's speech to Torch Club, and materials used in compiling it and quoted in it, undated but probably some time after 9 September, 1965. |
Folder 29 |
Drafts, Notes, and Collector DataMiscellanous notes, drafts and collected data, probably for report or for speech. Included is one printed item: Thirteenth Report Un-American Activities in California, 1965 (Report of Senate Factfinding Subcommittee to the 1965 Regular California Legislature). |
Folder 30 |
Clippings, 1965-1966 |