Research Guides: Wake Forest in the 1960s: Wake Forest College and the NC Baptist State Covention

Primary sources

Old Gold and Black
Call Number: LH1.W4 O64
Publication Date: 1916-2018
Wake Forest student newspaper. Available in print in SC&A, and in digital format on the SC&A Digital Collections page. For coverage of dancing controversy, see especially 4/29/1957, 11/11/1957, 11/18/1957, 11/25/1957, 1/20/1958.
The Howler (yearbook)
Call Number: LD5721 .W557 H6
Publication Date: 1903-2019
Wake Forest yearbook; available in print in SC&A and in digital format on the SC&A Digital Collections page.
University Archives photograph collection
Call Number: RG10.1
Link leads to digitized collection (not all photos have been digitized). The finding aid for the entire collection is available here: https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/39540
University Archives vertical files, Box 49
Call Number: RG15
Vertical files consist of newspaper clippings, published and unpublished documents, and other materials about specific subjects related to WFU history. This collection has not been digitized; link leads to the finding aid for the print collection.
President's Office, Harold Wayland Tribble
Call Number: RG1.10
Harold Tribble was president of Wake Forest from 1950 to 1967. This collection has not been digitized; link leads to finding aid for the print collection.

Bill J. Leonard oral history
Bill Leonard is founding dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity and professor of church history. Interview includes Professor Leonard's academic career at Baptist institutions, the complexity of U.S. Baptist history, and the role of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University. Includes video and transcript.

WFU Timeline from Special Collections & Archives
Timeline of events in WFU history from its beginnings in 1834 to the present.
History of Wake Forest College, Volume IV, 1943-1967
Also available in print: LD5721 W52 P3 1935 vol. 4
History of Wake Forest University, Volume V, 1967-1983
Also available in print: LD5721.W52 P3 2010 vol. 5