Henry Frye

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• UNC-TV: H. Frye: Episode 1: An Officer and a Scholar (57 min)
  Biographical Conversations with Henry Frye traces the future statesman’s journey from farmer’s son to law school graduate. The eighth of Walter and Pearl Frye’s twelve children, Henry Eli Frye was born in August 1932 in Ellerbe, North Carolina, and spent his early years toiling on his father’s farm.
  
  Aired: 06/16/2013
• UNC-TV: H. Frye: Episode 2: State House and Senate (57 min)
  Biographical Conversations with Henry Frye highlights Henry Frye's graduation from of University of North Carolina Law School in 1959, and opened his own practice in Greensboro.
  
  Aired: 06/23/2013
• UNC-TV: H. Frye: Episode 3: Supreme Justice (57 min)
  Biographical Conversations with Henry Frye shares how Henry Frye served as the first African American assistant district attorney in the South, after Robert Kennedy appointed him in 1963. He had also became the first African American to win a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, when he triumphed in the 1968 election.
  
  Aired: 06/30/2013