Frank Porter Graham News Archive

Despite setbacks, trailblazers in UNC athletics helped set the stage for equality
When the North Carolina football team traveled to play NYU in 1936, the Chapel Hill community thought UNC’s school system would crumble. Angry letters flooded...
Fri Oct 11, 2024

University Libraries and UNC Press publish biography of UNC President Frank Porter Graham
UNC’s 15th president, Frank Graham, was one of the most consequential southerners of the 20th century. In the new biography “Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal,...
Sun Dec 19, 2021

May 10, 1949: Morehead Planetarium opens
The opening of Morehead Planetarium on May 10, 1949 was a big event. Frank Porter Graham, who was at this point a U.S. Senator, gave...
Mon May 10, 2021

225 years of Tar Heels: James Gallagher
James Gallagher came to the University of North Carolina in 1970 as a Kenan Professor in the School of Education and the director of the...
Thu Feb 14, 2019

WXYC celebrates 40 years of airtime
It was Friday, March 18, 1977. Jimmy Carter was president, and the top hit on the radio was Barbra Streisand’s “Evergreen.” the theme song from...
Fri Mar 24, 2017

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