Records of the Division of Legal Affairs, 1931-1999 (bulk 1970-1981) [manuscript].

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Records of the Division of Legal Affairs, 1931-1999 (bulk 1970-1981) [manuscript].

The collection includes administrative manuals, codes, policies, and tenure regulations compiled by the Division of Legal Affairs and issued by the University system's Board of Governors, 1991-1999; materials pertaining to the ownership and administration of the Stevens Center at the North Carolina School of the Arts, 1979-1990; and files on the desegregation negotiations and litigation between the University system and the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (later Dept. of Health and Human Services), 1970-1993. The vast majority of the records concern the HEW case. Included are correspondence and legal documents as well as reports and data submitted to HEW by UNC. Items dated prior to 1970 are background materials related to the history of desegregation.

About 50,400 items (63.0 linear ft.).

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