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[Identification of item], in the Frye Gaillard papers #4698, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Frye Gaillard in February 1994 (Acc. 94080).

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• Authors, American--20th century.
• Automobile racing drivers--North Carolina--Biography.
• Automobile racing--United States.
• Busing for school integration--North Carolina--History.
• Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
• Charlotte observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc.
• Falwell, Jerry.
• Gaillard, Frye, 1946-
• Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931---Fiction.
• Graham, Billy, 1918-
• Journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• McMillan, James B., 1916-
• Petty, Kyle.
• School integration--North Carolina.

• James B. McMillan Papers (#4676).

Frye Gaillard of Charlotte, N.C., author and journalist, chiefly with The Charlotte Observer.

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.

• P-4698/Folder 1
• T-4698/1-25
• V-4698/1-115