Tuesday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh’s Ridgewood Shopping Center.
Dr. Jeffrey Crow, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Archives and History, will speak on the Office of Archives and History’s role as curator of North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights. Dr. Crow will also introduce the other speakers.
W. Dale Talbert, special deputy attorney general in the Special Litigation Section of the Attorney General’s Office, and Karen Blum, assistant attorney general in the Services to State Agencies Section of the Attorney General’s Office, will speak on their role in confirming the state’s ownership of its copy of the Bill of Rights.
Dr. William S. Price Jr., former director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History (1981-1995) and former Kenan Professor of History at Meredith College (1996-2006), will speak on freedom of the press as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Judge Willis P. Whichard, former associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1986-1998) and former dean of the School of Law at Campbell University (1999-2006), will speak on the dual rights of trial by jury and due process of law as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
The Historical Publications Section of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History has published essays by these speakers and four others in “Liberty and Freedom: North Carolina’s Tour of the Bill of Rights,” edited by Kenrick N. Simpson.
The Historical Publications Section offers more than 190 North Carolina books, maps and document facsimiles. For a free catalog, write to the address above; call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0; or e-mail trudy.rayfield@ncmail.net. Historical Publications is administered by the Office of Archives and History, which is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.