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[Identification of item], in the J. Gordon Hanes Papers on the Speaker Ban Study Commission, #3765, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from J. Gordon Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C., January 1967.

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• Academic freedom.
• Hanes, J. Gordon (James Gordon), 1916-1995.
• North Carolina.
• North Carolina. Speaker Ban Study Commission.
• Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
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• Wesley Herndon Wallace Papers (#3703).

James Gordon Hanes (1916-1995) was a Winston-Salem manufacturer and North Carolina state senator. Hanes served two terms, 1963-1966, and was a member of the Commission to Study the Statutes Relating to Visiting Speakers at State Supported Educational Institutions (Speaker Ban Study Commission). The commission was created by the General Assembly of North Carolina, June 1965, at the request of Governor Dan K. Moore, and the commissioners were appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house. David M. Britt was chairman of the nine-member study group. The members met together and also worked separately on the study; the comission held public hearings in August and September 1965 in Raleigh, N.C., and submitted a report to the governor in November 1965. As a result, the governor called for a special session of the legislature that amended the act of 26 June 1963 (H. B. 1395), officially titled "An Act to Regulate Visiting Speakers at State Supported Colleges and Universities" but referred to as the Speaker Ban.

The collection includes papers accumulated by J. Gordon Hanes as member of the North Carolina Commission to Study the Statutes Relating to Visiting Speakers at State-Supported Educational Institutions (Speaker Ban Study Commission). Included are transcripts of testimony at public hearings held by the commission, August-September 1965; papers pertaining to the succeeding special session of the General Assembly; items concerned with subsequent regulations of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees and a lawsuit contesting the regulations; and notes, speeches, and other related papers of Hanes.