We’ve recently extracted from an in-house database more than 4,500 records representing approximately 19,000 negatives made by Roland Giduz in and around Chapel Hill between 1947 and 1970, and have made that information available through a new finding aid. Prior to this improved finding aid, researchers only had this degree of subject access by working directly with staff who could search the database. So please follow the link to the finding aid and explore!
Above is Giduz’s historic photograph of Leroy Frasier, John Lewis Brandon, and Ralph Frasier (left to right), all from Durham, standing on the steps of South Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after completing their court-ordered registration on 15 September 1955 to become UNC’s first three African American undergraduate students. The photograph serves as a tribute to Ralph Fraiser, who will be speaking at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center this Friday, 19 February, from 12:30 to 2:00 P.M.
This is great, Stephen. Roland Giduz was a great friend of Chapel Hill and The University. Looking at these images brings to mind the possibility of matching these descriptions with those of other collections, like Morton, McCauley,and Sturkey.
By the way, the image above was also used on the front cover of “Carolina Alumni Review” for May-June, 2002.