Joseph Felmet papers, 1941-1989.

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Joseph Felmet papers, 1941-1989.

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Correspondence and files relating to various activities of Joseph Felmet. Photocopies of FBI files pertain to Felmet's actions as a pacifist and civil rights advocate as a University of North Carolina student and later. Correspondence pertains to Felmet's struggle to gain permission to take the bar exam in North Carolina. Also included are letters describing Felmet's position on civil rights and documents relating to his 1978 senatorial campaign in North Carolina.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Felmet, Joseph, 1921-1994

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Joseph Felmet received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942. He was arrested on numerous occasions for his pacifisim during World War II and social activism later. From the description of Joseph Felmet papers, 1941-1989. WorldCat record id: 26243291 Joseph Felmet was born in 1921 in Asheville, North Carolina. As a student, he was chair of the American Student Union, a group that was active in the effort to secure civil rights for ...