Frank T. Dupree, Jr., was born in Angier, N.C. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina with a law degree in 1936. He practiced law in Angier and in Raleigh, N.C., before he was appointed U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina by President Nixon on 12 December 1970. Case files, including court Papers, correspondence, background reports, clippings, appeal information, and handwritten trial notes, of Judge Frank Dupree, chiefly relating to his tenure as U.S. District Judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina and other courts on which he sat by special designation. The bulk of the collection consists of case files of civil cases heard in Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, New Bern, Raleigh, Washington, Wilmington, and Wilson, N.C. Also included are case files for asbestos-related civil cases; civil cases from Asheville and Greensboro, N.C., Charleston, S.C., Orlando and Tampa, Fla., and Wheeling, W.Va.; criminal cases, including some heard in North Carolina and a racketeering case in West Virginia; backruptcy cases; habeas corpus cases; prisoners' civil rights cases; and appeals cases heard in the federal circuit courts in Boston, Mass., Richmond, Va., and Chicago, Ill. Of note are case files and audio tapes from Duplan v. Deering Milliken, an extensive patent and anti-trust case in the District of South Carolina; case files from the J. P. Stevens racial discrimination trial in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; and materials regarding the appeal processes for the "Wilmington Ten," a civil rights group sentenced for conspiracy and the 1971 fire bombing of a grocery store in Wilmington, N.C.
