William Chafe is the author of The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II and Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (Oxford University Press).
From 1969-1975, Howard Lee was the first black mayor of a predominantly white southern town, Chapel Hill, NC, since the reconstruction. He served as Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development under Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., of North Carolina.