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Frank Porter Graham

The career of one of the university's most memorable presidents, who sustained the university during the Great Depression and World War II, elevated its reputation through distinguished national service, and demonstrated a lifelong commitment to progressive social change.

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  1. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972)
  2. Graham, center, front row, as editor of the Tar Heel, 1909
  3. Graham with his parents Alexander and Katherine Graham, 1931
  4. Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955)
  5. Button from Gastonia, 1929
  6. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972)
  7. Robert B. House (1892-1987)
  8. Langston Hughes and local bookstore owner Tony Buttitta, Chapel Hill, 1932
  9. Graham, left front, with 1906 freshman baseball team.
  10. Open house with the president, 1946
  11. President Roosevelt, Gov. Clyde Hoey, and Frank Porter Graham, 1938, Chapel Hill
  12. Graham with Eleanor Roosevelt, another supporter of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
  13. Eleven members of the War Labor Board, before their initial meeting on January 16, 1942. Frank Porter Graham seated on right
  14. Naval cadets on campus, 1944
  15. Truman and Graham
  16. Photo of Graham taken by Allard Lowenstein
  17. 1950 flier attacking Graham for views on race relations
  18. Graham with Nehru

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