Grants and Acquisitions

Abstract

Retiring congressman G. K. Butterfield has donated papers to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s University Libraries. His personal collection of papers and photographs will become part of the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. Throughout his life as civil rights activist, lawyer, judge and legislator, Butterfield (NC-01) has always been interested in history. He’s also a self-described “novice archivist” who has accumulated—and carefully labeled—boxes of materials from each chapter of his life. Butterfield has represented North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District for nearly two decades and is a past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of the current term.