Terry Sanford - Introduction

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  Terry Sanford - A Change Leader for Duke - Introduction

  James Terry Sanford, former governor of North Carolina (1961-1964), was recruited to lead Duke in 1969 after student protests that year ended with tear gas and prompted the resignation of President Douglas Knight.
  
  Trustees waived the requirement that Duke’s president hold a Ph.D. and welcomed a Democratic politician, attorney, and businessman -- a veteran who had earned a Purple Heart at the Battle of the Bulge, had been an FBI agent and an Eagle Scout. He was also a proud twice-over graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
  
  As governor, Sanford had rejected the “dead hand of the past that holds us back” and focused his persuasive powers on education, civil rights and poverty.
  
  The state ranked 42nd in per capita income, yet he successfully lobbied for a food tax that allowed North Carolina to nearly double its spending on education. He spurred the creation of the community college system, the Governor’s School, and the School of the Arts -- the nation’s first public arts conservatory.
  
  At a time when Ku Klux Klan membership was peaking, Sanford launched statewide Good Neighbor Councils to grow grassroots support for better jobs for black citizens. He sent his children to an integrated public school. And in a landmark speech at the North Carolina Press Association in January 1963, Sanford called for North Carolina to do “the honest and fair thing," to “quit unfair discrimination, and to give the Negro a full chance to earn a decent living for his family.”
  
  At Duke, Sanford would encounter fresh versions of the same struggles that were roiling America, and receptive ground for his optimism and transformational leadership.
  
  On the lawn outside the Chapel he told the crowd assembled for his inauguration, “We must build together here what we would like to see our society become. Duke University, I believe, is uniquely qualified to take the lead… We will not flinch from change; we will lead it. We will not turn away from challenge; we will welcome it.”
  
  *From a chapter title in Terry Sanford: Progress, Politics and Outrageous Ambitions by H. E. Covington Jr. and M. A. Ellis, Duke University Press, 1999.
  
  Photo Caption: Terry and Margaret Rose Sanford celebrate his winning the NC governor's seat, 1960. News and Observer
  
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  Terry Sanford Campaigns for Governor

  News and Observer photo of Terry Sanford on campaign trail, May 1960
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  Congressional Record Pg 1

  First Page of the Congressional Record In Memory of Terry Sanford
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  Congressional Record Pg 2

  The Second page of the Congressional Record In Memory of Terry Sanford
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  Congressional Record Pg 3

  Page three of the Congressional Record In Memory of Terry Sanford
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  Congressional Record Full

  Copy of the full Congressional Record In Memory of Terry Sanford
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  Terry Sanford Book Cover

  Cover to the Terry Sanford Biography
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  Triumph of Good Will Book Cover

  image of a cover to book about Terry Sanford's gubernatorial race