Anderson, James Douglas, 1867-1948. James Douglas Anderson papers, 1854-1951, bulk 1888-1948.
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James Douglas Anderson papers, 1854-1951, bulk 1888-1948.
Correspondence, writings, a diary (1886-1889) and memoirs, legal documents, photographs, and notes. As a Democrat and strong supporter of the old South, Anderson wrote about his belief in white superiority and racial purity as well as his violent opposition to the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, federal aid to public schools, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the League of Nations, woman's suffrage, Northern treatment of the South, the proposed repeal of the poll tax, and the deterioration of society in general. Believing that the Civil War provided a prime example of the North's inhumanity to the South, Anderson wrote a number of articles propounding that conviction, and dealt with this subject at length in his series of articles entitled Abraham Lincoln, demigod, which he later made into a manuscript for a book. Other subjects on which Anderson wrote include thoroughbred horses, tariffs, various political campaigns, and prohibition, which he strongly supported. McFerrin family documents appear in the correspondence and genealogical data, including letters of Rev. John B. McFerrin, Anderson's grandfather. Other prominent correspondents are Gordon Hurlbutt, John Leland Jordan, Sue Ruffin Tyler (of Tyler's Quarterly), David Rankin Barbee, Edward Ward Carmack, Andrew J. Grigsby, H. Norton Mason, William Jennings Bryan, Walter C. Chandler, John H. DeWitt, Edwin Litton Hickman, and Elijah Embree Hoss. Family correspondents include Dora Anderson, Ewell Anderson, Frank Anderson, James Anderson, John McFerrin Anderson, Sarah Jane McFerrin Anderson, and William Wade Anderson.
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