Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice

by Howard E. Covington Jr.

Book Overview

Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court--the head of the state's third branch of government. Throughout their lives, Frye and his wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786475757
• ISBN13: 9780786475759
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher