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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Walker Jr. Recordings #05806, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Pat Ford and LaVone Hicks in December 2019 (Acc. 103760).

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Processed by: Anne Wells, Andrew Crook, January 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, January 2020

Archival processing of the James Walker Jr. Recordings was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• African American lawyers--North Carolina--Biography.
• Law students--North Carolina.
• Law--North Carolina--Cases.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--Biography.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law.
• Walker, James Jr.

James Walker Jr. was one of the first African American students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Law School, early 1950s) and later worked as a lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C.

Audio recordings of an autobiography of James Walker, Jr., one of the first African American students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. James Walker, Jr., who later worked as a lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C., recorded these tapes late in his life as part of a planned autobiography, which was never published. On the recordings Walker describes his early life, his experiences at UNC, as well as his legal career. Recordings are on audiocassette.

• Audiocassettes (C-05806/1-37)