Collection Number:
40144
Collection Title: Carolina Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1966
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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.
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Creator |
Carolina Forum (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). |
Curatorial Unit |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives. |
Language |
English. |
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Acheson, Dean
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Adams, Sherman
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Anderson, Clinton
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Ascoli, Max
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Baruch, Bernard
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Benson, Ezra Taft
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Black, Hugo
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Bowles, Chester
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Bricker, John W.
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Bridges, Styles
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Browder, Earl
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Brownell, Herbert
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Byrd, Harry Flood
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Byrnes, James
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Cain, Harry P.
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Canterbury, Dean of
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Capehart, Homer
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Carey, James B.
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Carney, Robert
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Clay, Lucius
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Clement, Frank
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Clung, Cyrus
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Churchill, Winston
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Commager, Henry Steele
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Cooke, Alistair
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Daniels, Jonathan
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Davis, Elmer
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Deane, C. B.
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De Mille, Cecil B.
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Dewey, Thomas
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Dieckhoff, Hans
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Dirksen, Everett
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Douglas, Helen G.
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Douglas, Paul
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Douglas, William O.
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Dulles, John Foster
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Eban, Abba
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Eccles, Marimer
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Eden, Anthony
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Eisenhower, Dwight David
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Eisenhower, Milton
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Faubus, Orval
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Fisher, Geoffrey Francis
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Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
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Ford, Henry
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Foreman, Clark
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Frankfurter, Felix
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Fulbright, William
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Girdler, Tom A.
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Goldsborough, T. Alan
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Graham, Frank P.
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Gray, Gordon
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Hamilton, John D. M.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
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Hard, William
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Harriman, Averill
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Hill, Lister
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Hobby, Oveta Culp
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Hoffman, Paul
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Humphrey, Hubert
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Ives, Irving
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Jebb, Gladwyn
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Jenner, William
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Jessup, Philip
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Johnston, Eric
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Kefauver, Estes
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Kennan, George
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Kennedy, John
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Kerr, Robert S.
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Kerr, Scott
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Knowland, Richard
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Koo, V. K. Wellington
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Lausche, Frank
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Lehman, Herbert
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Lewis, John L.
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Lilienthal, David E.
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Lodge, Henry Cabot
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Long, Russell
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Lovett, Robert A.
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McArthur, Douglas
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McBride, Katherine
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McGill, Ralph
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McMath, Sidney
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McNinch, Frank R.
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Makins, Roger
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Malin, Patrick Murphy
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Marshall, George C.
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Martin, Joseph
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Maynard, Robert
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Meany, George
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Meekins, Isaac M.
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Menon, V. K. Krishna
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Mesta, Pearle
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Meyner, Robert
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Morse, Wayne
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Murray, Philip
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Murrow, Edward R.
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Neuberger, Richard L.
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Nixon, Richard
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O'Dwyer, William
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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Oxnam, G. Bromley
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Patterson, Robert P.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
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Pearson, Drew
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Pearson, Lester
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Perkins, Frances
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Pope, James P.
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Pusey, Nathan
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Radford, Arthur William
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Rayburn, Sam
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Reuther, Walter
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Ridgeway, Mathew
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
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Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.
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Russell, Richard
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St. Laurent, Louis
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Saltonstall, Leverett
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Sevareid, Eric
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Sheen, Fulton J.
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Sims, Hugo
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Smathers, George A.
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Smith, Howard K.
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Smith, Margaret Chase
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Smith, Walter Bedell
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Sparkman, John J.
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Stevenson, Adlai
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Strauss, Lewis L.
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Suma, Yakichiro
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Symington, Stuart
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Stassen, Harold
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Talmadge, Herman
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Thomas, Norman
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Thurmond, Strom
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Tong, Hollington K.
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Troyanovsky, Alexander
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Truman, Harry S.
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Carolina Forum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1966.
3000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
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