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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond Gubernatorial series, 1923-1955, (bulk 1946-1951)

Title: Strom Thurmond Gubernatorial series, 1923-1955, (bulk 1946-1951)

Consists of affidavits, appointment books, articles, biographical sketches, budgets, clippings, correspondence, daily schedule books, drafts of letters and speeches, election returns, financial records, invitations, lists, memos, minutes, notes, petitions, photographs, political advertisements, postcards, press releases, proclamations, promotional materials, reports, resolutions, routing slips, scrapbooks, speeches, statements, copies of completed surveys, telegrams, teletypes and warrants. The papers date from 1923 to 1955, although the bulk of the material is from the period 1946-1951, encompassing Thurmond's gubernatorial campaign and governorship. This series includes correspondence and information related to the following: Willie Earle, States' Rights Democratic Party, Walter J. Brown, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Sr., James F. Byrnes, Charles E. Daniel, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert McC. Figg, Alester Garden Furman, Jr., Alester Garden Furman, III, Billy Graham, J. Edgar Hoover, Olin D. Johnston, Bob Jones, Sr., Bob Jones, Jr., Burnet R. Maybank, Roger Milliken, Robert F. Poole, Paul Quattlebaum, Paul Quattlebaum, Jr., Mendel L. Rivers, Richard B. Russell, James Cuthbert Self, James C. "Jim" Self, John M. Spratt, Herman E. Talmadge, George Bell Timmerman Jr., Jean Crouch Thurmond, Harry S. Truman, George C. Wallace Jr., and Fielding L. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 75.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234199225 View

Gravely, William, 1939-. Will Gravely collection - Willie Earle investigation, 1947-2001 (bulk 1947)

Title: Will Gravely collection - Willie Earle investigation, 1947-2001 (bulk 1947)

The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from lab reports, an oral history interview with transcripts, and an investigative report concerning the February 17, 1947 lynching of Willie Earle. The files document the Federal Bureau of Investigation's involvement in the case and documentation of its coverage in the media. Professor Will Gravely obtained the bulk of this material under the Freedom of Information Act in 2001. Prior to obtaining these files, Gravely conducted an interview with Senator Strom Thurmond concerning the incident. Thurmond was Governor of South Carolina in 1947 when Mr. Earle was killed. The interview took place in Washington, DC on August 21, 1989. The investigative report includes a synopsis of the case; report on the crime scene investigation, preliminary investigation and interviews; copies of statements by suspects, divided into those who did and did not confess to the lynching; copies of corroborating interviews. Gravely created an item level log for this material and divided it into three sections with the first section being divided into two parts. These files include documents that have redactions and can be compared with similar files found in Mss 156, Alan Schaffer Collection of F.B.I. files of the Willie Earle Case that he obtained in the 1980s. There is material related to the defense lawyers John Bolt Culbertson and Thomas Wofford as well as J. Edgar Hoover's interest in the case.

ArchivalResource: 1 box .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225894123 View

Willie Earle scrapbook, 1947

Title: Willie Earle scrapbook, 1947

Scrapbook re press coverage and public reaction to lynching of Willie Earle, 17 Feb. 1947, in Greenville, S.C., and the subsequent trial in which all defendants were acquitted; clippings taken from publications around United States. Chiefly articles from newspapers and magazines re lynching of Willie Earle and coverage of the trial. Includes clippings from the Chicago Daily News, Christian Science Moniter, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Survey Graphic, Washington Post, New Yorker and other newspapers and magazines.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29926586 View

Schaffer, Alan,. Alan Schaffer Collection of F.B.I. files relating to the lynching of Willie Earle, 1947-1988, (bulk 1947).

Title: Alan Schaffer Collection of F.B.I. files relating to the lynching of Willie Earle, 1947-1988, (bulk 1947).

The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from the book The F.B.I. Story (by Don Whitehead, 1956) and the New Yorker (June 14, 1947), lab reports and an investigative report concerning the Willie Earle lynching and the F.B.I.'s involvement in the case. Also includes deleted page information sheets. Some of this material is sanitized, with the section of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act permitting sanitization often noted in the margin of the item. Most of the clippings are from Washington, D.C. and Greenville newspapers; clippings will often have passages concerning the F.B.I. underlined. The investigative report includes a synopsis of the case; report on the crime scene investigation, preliminary investigation and interviews; copies of statements by suspects, divided into those who did and did not confess to the lynching; copies of corroborating interviews; an auto grouping and movement survey; elimination and screening of suspects; and physical descriptions of the suspects. Some of the material in the collection concerns the F.B.I.'s displeasure over the tactics used by defense attorneys Thomas Wofford and John Bolt Culbertson, and include inquiries as to Culbertson's relationship with the C.I.O. In addition to the Willie Earle case, some of the material in this collection related to lynching in the South in general.

ArchivalResource: .25 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36344796 View

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond Gubernatorial series, 1923-1955, (bulk 1946-1951)

Title: Strom Thurmond Gubernatorial series, 1923-1955, (bulk 1946-1951)

Consists of affidavits, appointment books, articles, biographical sketches, budgets, clippings, correspondence, daily schedule books, drafts of letters and speeches, election returns, financial records, invitations, lists, memos, minutes, notes, petitions, photographs, political advertisements, postcards, press releases, proclamations, promotional materials, reports, resolutions, routing slips, scrapbooks, speeches, statements, copies of completed surveys, telegrams, teletypes and warrants. The papers date from 1923 to 1955, although the bulk of the material is from the period 1946-1951, encompassing Thurmond's gubernatorial campaign and governorship. This series includes correspondence and information related to the following: Willie Earle, States' Rights Democratic Party, Walter J. Brown, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Sr., James F. Byrnes, Charles E. Daniel, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert McC. Figg, Alester Garden Furman, Jr., Alester Garden Furman, III, Billy Graham, J. Edgar Hoover, Olin D. Johnston, Bob Jones, Sr., Bob Jones, Jr., Burnet R. Maybank, Roger Milliken, Robert F. Poole, Paul Quattlebaum, Paul Quattlebaum, Jr., Mendel L. Rivers, Richard B. Russell, James Cuthbert Self, James C. "Jim" Self, John M. Spratt, Herman E. Talmadge, George Bell Timmerman Jr., Jean Crouch Thurmond, Harry S. Truman, George C. Wallace Jr., and Fielding L. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 85 microfilm reels (78.5 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234199164 View