Frye Gaillard papers, 1970s-1993 [manuscript].

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Frye Gaillard papers, 1970s-1993 [manuscript].

Materials, 1970s-1993, relating to Gaillard's various writings and projects. Included are letters; manuscripts of works in various stages of completion; notes; source materials, including newspaper and magazine clippings and wire service reports; and audio and video tapes, some containing interviews. There is extensive documentation for The Dream Long Deferred (1988) and a documentary film for the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television (1991) of the same name, including materials relating to Judge James B. McMillan and Swann vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education (1969), which established busing as a national tool for school ingtegration. There is also extensive material on The Secret Diary of Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), a novel, and Kyle at 200 M.P.H. (1993), about Kyle Petty and the NASCAR racing circuit. The Unfinished Presidency: Essays on Jimmy Carter (1986) and other works are more sparsely documented. Included in general files are a few letters from Billy Graham and background material on Jerry Falwell.

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Gaillard, Frye, 1946-

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Frye Gaillard of Charlotte, N.C., author and journalist, chiefly with The Charlotte Observer. From the description of Frye Gaillard papers, 1970s-1993 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31908612 From the guide to the Frye Gaillard Papers, 1970s-1993, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

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