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Size | 7.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5700 items) |
Abstract | Billy Brown Olive of Durham, N.C., was a white attorney who specialized in patent and intellectual property law, The collection includes materials on environmental and social issues of interest to Billy Brown Olive, specifically his opposition to the Interstate 40 construction through Orange County, N.C.; the proposed landfill site near Eubanks Road in Orange County; and the proposed extension of the East/West Expressway (North Carolina Highway 147) through the historically African American Crest Street community in Durham, N.C. Interstate 40 papers consist of Olive's office files related to Interstate 40 construction through North Carolina, including correspondence, meeting minutes of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, newspaper clippings, maps of routes, and petitions. Landfill site materials relate to the proposed placement of an Orange County landfill near Eubanks Road in Orange County, and include court documents, letters of opposition written by Olive, newspaper clippings, landfill drawings, and publications and reports. Crest Street papers include correspondence; court documents, specifically those related to the Save Our Church and Community Committee of Durham; maps of Duke Forest; publications and reports; and additional correspondence relating to I-40 construction in Durham. Also included is material related to the Orange County Municipal Waste Project, chiefly consisting of correspondence of Olive with state and local officials, newspaper staff, educators, and the Landfill Owners Group, but also including studies and reports on waste management. There are a few related photographs scattered throughout the collection. |
Creator | Olive, Billy Brown, 1921- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Kiley Orchard, April 2010
Encoded by: Kiley Orchard, April 2010
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, September 2023
This collection was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.
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Billy Brown Olive of Durham, N.C., was a white attorney who specialized in patent and intellectual property law. He received his degree in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1948 and went on to work with the Westinghouse Electric International Company in New York. It was during his time in New York that Olive earned his law degree from Saint John's University. He worked for Fieldcrest Mills in Leaksville, N.C., before establishing Olive & Olive in 1957, the first patent law firm to serve the Research Triangle Park area. For the next 15 years, he also taught proprietary and engineering law classes at the Duke School of Engineering and the School of Product Design at North Carolina State University.
For more than 40 years, Olive was involved in civic affairs, specifically those relating to the environment. Locally, he was involved in the opposition of specific routes of Interstate 40 in Orange County, N.C., serving as coordinator with Opposition to I-40 in Orange County. He also opposed the Eubanks Road landfill site in Orange County and the East/West Expressway route through the historically African American Crest Street community in Durham. In addition, Olive founded the North Carolina Bar Association's committee on intellectual property law. He received military awards from both the United States and France, an award for civic service from the State of North Carolina, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, and the Charles Korstian Award of the Nicholas School of the Environment.
Back to TopThe Billy Brown Olive papers include materials on environmental and social issues of interest to Olive, specifically his opposition to the Interstate 40 construction through Orange County, N.C.; the proposed landfill site near Eubanks Road in Orange County; and the proposed extension of the East/West Expressway (North Carolina Highway 147) through the historically African American Crest Street community in Durham, N.C. Interstate 40 papers consist of Olive's office files related to Interstate 40 construction through North Carolina, including correspondence, meeting minutes of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, newspaper clippings, maps of routes, and petitions. Landfill site materials relate to the proposed placement of an Orange County landfill near Eubanks Road in Orange County, and include court documents, letters of opposition written by Olive, newspaper clippings, landfill drawings, and publications and reports. Crest Street papers include correspondence; court documents, specifically those related to the Save Our Church and Community Committee of Durham; maps of Duke Forest; publications and reports; and additional correspondence relating to I-40 construction in Durham. Also included is material related to the Orange County Municipal Waste Project, chiefly consisting of correspondence of Olive with state and local officials, newspaper staff, educators, and the Landfill Owners Group, but also including studies and reports on waste management. There are a few related photographs scattered throughout the collection.
Back to TopBilly Brown Olive's office files related to the construction of Interstate 40 through North Carolina, including correspondence, meeting minutes of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, newspaper clippings, maps of routes, petitions, and a few photographs. See also Series 3. Crest Street for related I-40 correspondence.
Note that original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Materials related to the proposed placement of a landfill near Eubanks Road in Orange County, N.C., including court documents, letters of opposition written by Billy Brown Olive, newspaper clippings, and publications and reports. Also includes landfill drawings and a few photographs. The landfill opened in 1972.
Note that original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Folder 50-51
Folder 50Folder 51 |
Chapel Hill landfill, 1972 |
Folder 52 |
Eubanks landfill, 10 February 1975 |
Folder 53 |
Exhibits regarding New Hope Development Corporation, 1972 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-5453/1 |
Landfill drawings, 1970s-1980s |
Folder 54 |
Landfill newspaper clippings, circa 1972 |
Folder 55-58
Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58 |
Landfill papers, circa 1950s-1973 |
Folder 59-62
Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62 |
Publications and reports, 1968-1976Includes:
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Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5453/3 |
Research Triangle Region Development Guide, 1969 |
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Materials related to the proposed extension of the Durham East/West Expressway (North Carolina Highway 147) through the historically African American Crest Street community of Durham, N.C. Includes correspondence; court documents, specifically those related to the Save Our Church and Community Committee of Durham; maps of Duke Forest; and publications and reports. There is also some correspondence that concerns Interstate 40 construction in Durham.
Note that original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Folder 63-64
Folder 63Folder 64 |
Crest Street papers, 1970s-1980sIncludes court documents from the legal case of residents of Crest Street and Save our Church and Community Committee before the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, 7 September 1978; "Analysis of the Impact of the Alternate Routes of Interstate-40 Around Durham, N.C. on the Human Environment of the Region" by Thomas H. Pierce and James E. Wuenscher at School of Forestry, Duke University; maps of Duke Forest; printed material; local government records; and correspondence. |
Folder 65-67
Folder 65Folder 66Folder 67 |
Interstate 40 correspondence, 1970s-1980s |
Folder 68 |
Interstate 40 correspondence in, 1977 |
Folder 69-70
Folder 69Folder 70 |
Interstate 40 correspondence out, 1977 |
Folder 71 |
Interstate 40: Final Environmental Impact Statement, 1978 |
Folder 72 |
Orange County, et. al. vs. Department of Transportation, et. al., 1980 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-5453/2 |
Maps of Duke Forest, 1970s-1980s |
Folder 73-74
Folder 73Folder 74 |
Publications and reports, 1960-1986Includes:
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Folder 75 |
Soil surveys, 1971, 1977Includes Soil Survey of Durham, North Carolina, 1971, and Soil Survey of Orange County, North Carolina, 1977. |
Folder 76 |
Summary of proceedings, 1978-1980Photocopies of court documents related to the Crest Street case. |
Chiefly correspondence of Billy Brown Olive with state and local officials, newspaper staff, educators, and the Landfill Owners Group related to the Orange County Municipal Waste Project (OCMW), but also studies and reports on waste management.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Folder 77-79
Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79 |
Orange County Municipal Waste Project, OCMW 7001, 1996 |
Folder 80-81
Folder 80Folder 81 |
Orange County Municipal Waste Project, OCMW 7002, 1997 |
Folder 82-83
Folder 82Folder 83 |
Orange County Municipal Waste Project, OCMW 7003, 1998 |
Folder 84 |
Orange County Municipal Waste Project, OCMW 7004, 1999-2001 |