ROBERT BURTON HOUSE PAPERS, #3581, 1916-1973
Correspondence, writings, and other materials chiefly relating to House's administrative
career as executive secretary, dean of administration, and chancellor of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of the correspondence concerns administrative problems,
but letters also express House's views on race relations. Included are House's complaints to
the Carolina Coach Company, North Carolina Corporation Commission, and the police chief of
Durham, North Carolina, after he and his wife were offended by the presence of "a drunken
Negro" while taking a bus trip from Durham to Chapel Hill (1932). Also present is a letter in
which House states "there is no immediate answer to the Negro situation. If the newspapers
didn't have to get up a story, there would be nothing sensational in the whole thing"
(1951).