(1886–1972) (D-N.C.), Southern white liberal, educator, college administrator, and lawyer; professor of history (1915–30) and president (1930–49), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; first chair, Southern Conference for Human Welfare (1938–48); candidate for chair, FEPC (1943); public member, WLB; wrote WLB ruling in Southport case that as wartime labor policy no employer under board jurisdiction could pay different wage rates to black and white employees for same work; member, Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights; U.S. senator (1949–50); mediator, UN (1951–67). Mitchell quoted Graham as saying in 1950, as defense manpower administrator, that 8 million workers would be needed in defense plants; to meet that challenge, he called for a greater utilization of the national workforce.
