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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the A. T. Allen Papers, #3722, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth M. Allen of Raleigh, N.C., October 1965 and December 1968.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Allen, A. T. (Arch Turner), b. 1875.
• Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919.
• College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Pugh, James Thomas, 1873-1942.
• School notebooks--History--19th century.
• School superintendents--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• Venable, F. P. (Francis Preston), 1856-1934.

A. T. (Arch Turner) Allen (born 1875) was state superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina, 1923-1934. Allen was a native of Hiddenite, N.C., and a graduate of the University of North Carolina.

The collection includes scattered correspondence of A. T. Allen and copies of speeches and statements by him, all concerned with public education; six lecture notebooks, 1894-1895, kept by Allen when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in classes taught by Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), Francis Preston Venable (1856-1934), and James Thomas Pugh (1873-1942); and a few other items.