This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Although virtually unenforceable for twenty-seven years, the Speaker Ban Law was finally repealed by the General Assembly.

Joseph Carlyle Sitterson died in Chapel Hill. He was born in Kinston in 1911 and graduated from the University in 1931. From 1966 to 1972, he served as chancellor, facing some of the most turbulent years in the University's history.