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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items) |
Abstract | James Lineberry Jenkins, Jr., was born in Robeson County, N.C., in 1919. A graduate of Wake Forest College, Jay Jenkins became a prize-winning political reporter, an editorial writer, and a columnist for several North Carolina newspapers, including The News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, and the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. In 1969, he was named a special assistant to William Friday, president of the University of North Carolina. He retired from this position in 1982, and, in early 1983, began writing a weekly column featured in the Chapel Hill Newspaper and the Southern Pines Pilot. Chiefly letters, mostly from journalists with some from politicians and others, about various journalistic and political matters. There are also typescripts of speeches written by Jenkins for Governor James B. Hunt, Mayor Avery Upchurch of Raleigh, and others, and typescripts and clippings of articles and columns written by or about Jenkins. Also included is a scrapbook containing clippings, circa 1940-1970, of articles by or about Jenkins, photographs, and a few letters from various journalists and others; a few clippings, circa 1920s, related to the poet John Charles McNeill, Jenkins's great-uncle; four photographs, 1952, of three of McNeill's colleagues from the Charlotte Observer; and a number of photographic negatives, evidently family snapshots taken by Jay Jenkins. |
Creator | Jenkins, James Lineberry, 1919-2003. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, July 1993
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2021
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James Lineberry Jenkins, Jr., was born in Robeson County, N.C., in 1919. A graduate of Wake Forest College, Jay Jenkins became a prize-winning political reporter, an editorial writer, and a columnist for several North Carolina newspapers, including The News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, and the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. In 1969, he was named a special assistant to William Friday, president of the University of North Carolina. He retired from this position in 1982, and, in early 1983, began writing a weekly column featured in the Chapel Hill Newspaper and the Southern Pines Pilot.
Back to TopChiefly letters, mostly from journalists with some from politicians and others, about various journalistic and political matters. There are also typescripts of speeches written by Jenkins for Governor James B. Hunt, Mayor Avery Upchurch of Raleigh, and others, and typescripts and clippings of articles and columns written by or about Jenkins. Also included is a scrapbook containing clippings, circa 1940-1970, of articles by or about Jenkins, photographs, and a few letters from various journalists and others; a few clippings, circa 1920s, related to the poet John Charles McNeill, Jenkins's great-uncle; four photographs, 1952, of three of McNeill's colleagues from the Charlotte Observer; and a number of photographic negatives, evidently family snapshots taken by Jay Jenkins.
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