THOMAS JENKINS PEARSALL PAPERS, #4300, 1954-1979
Correspondence concerning school integration, higher education (especially at the
University of North Carolina), and the Roanoke Island Historical Association, and
miscellaneous professional papers documenting the career of Pearsall, North Carolina,
legislator and chief author of the 1956 Pearsall Plan for school integration in North
Carolina. The collection contains letters expressing the reactions of North Carolinians to
the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on desegregation (1954-1963) and a thesis concerning the
desegregation of North Carolina schools (1959).
