Timeline extended for launch of Wilson Library facilities work.

Collection Number: 40144

Collection Title: Carolina Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1966

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


expand/collapse Expand/collapse Collection Overview

Size 6.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3000 items)
Abstract The Carolina Forum was organized on 1 July 1948 to bring leaders of government, labor, industry, and education, to speak on the University of North Carolina campus. In part, the Carolina Forum took over functions of the Carolina Political Union, which had been organized in 1936 by political science students to bring political leaders to speak on campus and to hold roundtable discussions on current political topics. After the advent of the Carolina Forum, the Carolina Political Union continued to function, but its activity was limited to weekly discussions and occasional speakers. Records include correspondence, 1937-1948, of the Carolina Political Union and, 1948-1959, of the Carolina Forum. The correspondence primarily consists of requests for speakers to come and arrangements for their visits. Also included are dismantled scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on speakers from the 1940s and loose clippings from the 1950s. Some of the 1965-1966 material addresses the Speaker Ban issue.
Creator Carolina Forum (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English.
Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Information For Users

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Carolina Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40144, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Provenance
Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Processing Information

Processed by: University Archives Staff, September 1957, December 1960, April 1978, October 1982, April 2003

Encoded by: Anne Skilton, May 2003

Updated by: Andrew Crook and Dawne Lucas, July 2024

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subject Headings

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Historical Information

In 1936 a group of political science students under the guidance of Professor E. J. Woodhouse organized the Carolina Political Union. Its twofold purpose was to bring prominent political figures to speak on the University of North Carolina campus and to hold roundtable discussions on current political topics.

On 1 July 1948, the Carolina Forum was organized and took over the function of securing speakers and began inviting prominent leaders from labor, industry, and education, as well as from government. The Carolina Political Union continued to function, but its activities were limited to the weekly discussions and occasional speakers.

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Scope and Content

These records include correspondence, 1937-1948, of the Carolina Political Union and, 1948-1959, of the Carolina Forum. The correspondence primarily consists of requests for speakers to come and arrangements for their visits. Also included are dismantled scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on speakers from the 1940s and loose clippings from the 1950s. Some of the 1965-1966 material addresses the Speaker Ban issue.

Below is a list of the more prominent correspondents included in the papers.

Back to Top

Contents list

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Carolina Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1966.

3000 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Folder 1

1937: January-June

Folder 2

1937: July

Folder 3

1937: August

Separated Folder SEP-40144/1

Letter, 26 August 1937, Leon Trotsky to Alexander Heard regarding lecture topics

Restriction to Access: The original item is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options.

Folder 4

1937: September

Folder 5

1937: October

Folder 6

1937: November 1-10

Folder 7

1937: November 11-30

Folder 8

1937: December

Folder 9

1938: January

Folder 10

1938: February

Folder 11

1938: March

Folder 12

1938: April

Folder 13

1938: May

Folder 14

1938: June-July

Folder 15

1938: August-September

Folder 16

1938: October

Folder 17

1938: November

Folder 18

1938: December

Folder 19

1939: January

Folder 20

1939: February

Folder 21

1939: March

Folder 22

1939: April

Folder 23

1939: May-August

Folder 24

1939: September-October

Folder 25

1939: November-December

Folder 26

1940: January-February

Folder 27

1940: March

Folder 28

1940: April

Folder 29

1940: May-June

Folder 30

1940: July

Folder 31

1940: August

Folder 32

1940: September

Folder 33

1940: October 1-20

Folder 34

1940: October 21-31

Folder 35

1940: November 1-14

Folder 36

1940: November 15-30

Folder 37

1940: December

Folder 38

1941: January 1-15

Folder 39

1941: January 16-31

Folder 40

1941: February 1-14

Folder 41

1941: February 15-28

Folder 42

1941: March 1-18

Folder 43

1941: March 19-31

Folder 44

1941: April

Folder 45

1941: May-August

Folder 46

1941: September-October

Folder 47

1941: November-December

Folder 48

1942: January

Folder 49

1942: February-May

Folder 50

1942: June-August

Folder 51

1942: September

Folder 52

1942: October

Folder 53

1942: November-December

Folder 54

1943: January-March

Folder 55

1943: April

Folder 56

1943: May

Folder 57

1943: June-September

Folder 58

1943: October-December

Folder 59

1944: January-February

Folder 60

1944: March-December

Folder 61

1945

Folder 62

1946: January-May

Folder 63

1946: June-September

Folder 64

1946: October

Folder 65

1946: November-December

Folder 66

1947: January

Folder 67

1947: February-March

Folder 68

1947: April-September

Folder 69

1947: October-December

Folder 70

1948: January-April

Folder 71

1948: May-August

Folder 72

1948: September-December

Folder 73

1949: January-February

Folder 74

1949: March-April

Folder 75

1949: May-September

Folder 76

1949: October-December

Folder 77

1950-1952

Folder 78

1953: January-July

Folder 79

1953: August

Folder 80

1953: September-December

Folder 81

1954: January-March

Folder 82

1954: April-June

Folder 83

1954: July 1-16

Folder 84

1954: July 17-31

Folder 85

1954: August-September

Folder 86

1954: October

Folder 87

1954: November-December

Folder 88

1955: January-May

Folder 89

1955: June-August

Folder 90

1955: September-December

Folder 91

1956: January-May

Folder 92

1956: June

Folder 93

1956: July-December

Folder 94

1957: January-May

Folder 95

1957: June

Folder 96

1957: July-October

Folder 97

1957: November-December

Folder 98

1958

Folder 99

1959

Folder 100

1965-1966

Folder 101

Scrapbook: 1942-1943

Folder 102

Scrapbook: 1945-1948

Folder 103

Scrapbook: 1948-1950

Folder 104

Clippings: 1944-1957

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Items Separated

Separated Folder (SEP-40144/1)

Back to Top