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Terry Sanford and A Generation of Change

A Generation of Change

Out of the ashes of a Great Depression and the powerful stimulus of a World War, a new generation of North Carolina leaders emerged to challenge the status quo. Former Duke President Terry Sanford, Bill Friday, Bill Aycock and many others from North Carolina’s own “Greatest Generation” led a time of dramatic change that established many of today’s institutions. The documentary film, "A Generation of Change" takes their life stories from their youth in the 1920s to the climactic election of 1972, and the birth of the modern two-party state in North Carolina.

The film will be featured on WUNC-TV this month with the first showing at 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8. WUNC-TV is channel 4 on Durham Time/Warner Cable.