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Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

Title: James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

The collection consists of the correspondence and writings of James J. Kilpatrick, including correspondence with his readers, fellow journalists, and prominent public figures; editorials; speeches; and the manuscripts for "The sovereign states," "The lasting south," "The smut peddlars," and "The Southern case for school segretation." The dominant theme is Federal infringement on State's rights including the issues of segregation, interposition, and flouridation. Other topics include payola, Richmond Virginians baseball team, the National Conference of Editorial Writers and a debate with Martin Luther King, Jr., on the nation's future. Major correspondents include Edwin M. Almond, Jim Bishop, Allen C. Brownfeld, William F. Buckley, Jr., Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, Colgate W. Darden, Roscoe Ellard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Donald M. Ewing, Dick Fojut, Howard C. Gilmer, Joseph Addison Hagan, Anthony Harrigan, Burr P. Harrison, Human Events, Verne P. Kaub, David Lawrence, Shelby Little, William Loeb, Dr. Robert Needles, J. R. Orgain, Jr., Robert Whaley Orrell, Robert B. Patterson, Drew Pearson, Carleton Putnam, Lawrence R. Quarles, Henry Regnery, Donald R. Richberg, A. Willis Robertson, George W. Rogers, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Paul Saunier, Jr., the Spadea Syndicate, Thomas B. Stanley, Ulrich and Dorothy Troubetzkoy, William M. Tuck, United Feature Syndicate, Virginia Press Association, J. Barrye Wall, Robert Whitehead, John J. Wicker, John Cook Wyllie, Writers of one or two brief letters include Watkins M. Abbit, J. Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Fitzgerald Bemiss, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Julien Binford, Loyd C. Bird, McLemore Birdsong, James Baylor Blackford, John B. Boatwright, Jr., Armistead L. Boothe, Sarah-Patton Boyle, James H. Brewer, Owen Brewster, Joel Broyhill, Matthew Bruccoli, D. Tennant Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, J. L. Blair Buck, Warren E. Burger, Robert Y. Button, Mortimer Caplin, Margaret Haley Carpenter, Howard H. Carwile, Bruce Catton, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Bennett Cerf, Allan Knight Chalmers, Lenoir Chambers, Leslie Cheek, Walter N. Chinn, Randolph W. Church, Joseph S. Clark, Josephine G. Clark, J. Calvitt Clarke, Monroe Cockrell, Weldon Cooper, Norman Cousins, Kenneth R. Crispell, Virginius Dabney, John E. Dahlquist, Ted Dalton, Dominick V. Daniels, Donald Davidson, E. F. S. Davies, James C. Davis, Lambert Davis, Ralph de Toledano, Collins Denny, Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Hardy C. Dillard, Thomas J. Dodd, E. Griffith Dodson, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, John Dos Passos, Clifford Dowdey, Thomas N. Downing, Leon Dure, James O. Eastland, James E. Edmonds, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, Mamie Eisenhower, Sam Ervin, Also Orval Faubus, Marshall Fishwick, Guy Friddell, Murray Friedman, Foster Furcolo, Francis Pendleton Gaines, John Gange, George Garrett, J. Vaughan Gary, James J. Geary, Henry Gemmill, Carter Glass, III, Mills Godwin, Harry Golden, Eric F. Goldman, Barry Goldwater, Albert Gore, J. Segar Gravatt, Garland Gray, John A. Griffin, Robert P. Griffin, S. Marvin Griffin, Erwin N. Griswold, Ernest Gruening, Raymond R. Guest, Harry F. Guggenheim, Edward J. Gurney, T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Leigh Hanes, Porter Hardy, Jr., Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Deryl Hart, Booton Herndon, William S. Hildreth, Luther H. Hodges, Reynold D. Hogle, A. Linwood Holton, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Dowell J. Howard, Edward W. Hudgins, Carl Humelsine, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas H. Hunter, Sterling Hutcheson, William Inge, CaryF. Jacob, William E. Jenner, John M. Jennings, J. Winston Johns, Forney Johnston, B. Everett Jones, Sidney S. Kellam, R. Wayne Kernodle, Russell Kirk, Warren P. Knowles, Arthur Krock, Alfred M. Landon, William E. Larsen, J. Bracken Lee, Albert Lévitt, Russell Long, Also Dumas Malone, Harrison Mann, Jr., John O. Marsh, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Rumsey Marvin, Linton Massey, John L. McClellan, Edward O. McCue III, James Douglas McKay, Harry Meacham, M. J. Menefee, Frank Pitts Moncure. A.S. Mike Monroney, E. Blackburn Moore, Sidney Grant Morse, Wayne Morse, Robert Moses, William P. Murphy, Hyde Murray, Edmund S. Muskie, Maurine B. Neuberger, Robert N. C. Nix, Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet, G. Warren Nutter, William B. O'Neal, E. J. Oglesby, William Old, Elizabeth H. Osth, John Crump Parker, T. Nelson Parker, Davis Young Paschall, Kenneth C. Patty, William H. Peden, Fred Pollard, J. Sergeant Reynolds, John Q. Rhodes, F.D.G. Ribble, Homer Richey, Wilfred Ritz, Ruby Altizer Roberts, George Romney, John J. Rooney, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Parke Rouse, Vermont Royster, William A. Rusher, Dean Rusk, Lao and Walter Russell, Richard B. Russell, Allan H. Ryskind, Richard S. Salant, Terry Sanford, Reed Sarratt, David E. Satterfield, Jr., Davie E. Satterfield, III, Charles M. Schulz, Philip L. Scruggs, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., D. French Slaughter, Also Howard K. Smith, Howard Worth Smith, Louis Spilman, Lawrence E. Spivak, John Stennis, A.E.S. Stephens, Adlai Stevenson, Lindley J. Stiles, Kathryn H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Warren H. Strother, Earl G. Swem, William F. Swindler, Carl Swisher, G. Fred Switzer, Herman E. Talmadge, Lorin A. Thompson, Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Henry St., George Tucker, Jr., D. Gardiner Tyler, Stewart Udall, George C. Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, William C. Wampler, Robert Welch, Jr., E. B. White, Roy Wilkens, Robert M. Wilkin, J. Harvie Wilkinson, John J. Williams, Earl Wilson, Edward H. Winter, Jennngs, C. Wise, Art Wood, William H. Wranek The collection also contains book reviews by University of Virginia Librarian John Cook Wyllie

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

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Menefee, M. J. (Marvin James), 1894-1983. Papers of M.J. Menefee [manuscript], 1914-1982.

Title: Papers of M.J. Menefee [manuscript], 1914-1982.

The papers consist chiefly of personal and office correspondence. The former contains letters to Menefee while he was convalescing from war wounds. Many mention the great flu epidemic of 1918-1919. Later letters are mainly to and from his wife and family. The office files contain correspondence from his position as secretary to A. Willis Robertson and administrative assistant to Harry Byrd. Most letters concern routine situations, engagements, speaking trips, local arrangements, and minor requests from constituents. Some touch on local and Virginia politics and Byrd's campaigns. Also include Menefee's personal legal and financial papers; statements of his accounts with Byrd; speeches; petitions for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; World War I papers including training material, notes and field messages from active service in France, honors awarded, and efforts to receive disability payments; clippings; photographs; and memorabilia. In addition, there is a letter, 1861 June 11, J. Lucius Davis to William Miller authorizing the latter to raise recruits for Wise's legion in Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties. Correspondents include James Lindsay Almond, Harry Flood Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, John Stewart Battle, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Douglas Southall Freeman, Burr Powell Harrison, William Sobieski Hildreth, Jay Winston Johns, Absalom Willis Robertson, James Strom Thurmond, William Munford Tuck and John Jordan Wicker.

ArchivalResource: 6500 (ca.) items.

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Wicker, John J., (John Jordan), 1893-1985. Papers, 1954-1983 (bulk 1978-1982).

Title: Papers, 1954-1983 (bulk 1978-1982).

This collection consists of the correspondence of Senator Wideer and the following organizations: American Bar Association; American Legion Boys State of Virginia, endowement fund, founders, general correspondence. There is also personel, correspondence, and law office correspondence. Correspondents include Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. and Charles S. Robb.

ArchivalResource: .45 cubic ft.

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965. Papers, 1924-1965.

Title: Papers, 1924-1965.

Papers, 1924-1965, consisting of correspondence, letters, telegrams, memoranda, advertisements, speeches, clippings, photographs, minutes, platforms, resolutions, lists, reports, receipts, budgets, scrapbooks, maps, and published materials. These papers center on the political life, and to a lesser extent, the personal life of Dixon. The political life of Dixon is particularly well documented, including his two campaigns for the governor's office of Ala. in 1934 and 1938, and his involvement in the Dixiecrat movement from 1948 into the 1950's. Correspondence and letters, numerous speeches, and campaign materials, all describe Dixon's and many others activities in great detail. His personal life, particularly his membership in various clubs and organizations, is also well documented, especially his activities in the American Bar Association and the Redstone Club of Birmingham, Ala. There are also several speeches and some campaign literature that document Bibb Graves' campaign for governor in 1934. Among the prominent correspondents with a significant amount of material in the Dixon papers are: Governors Homer M. Adkins of Ark.; Ellis Arnall of Ga.; Ross B. Barrett of Miss.; J. Melville Broughton of N.C.; James E. Folsom of Ala.; Spessard L. Holland of Fla.; Paul B. Johnson of Miss.; Sam H. Jones of La.; Robert S. Kerr of Okla.; Thomas E. Kilby of Ala.; Ben Laney of Ark.; John Patterson and Gordon Persons of Ala.; Leverett Saltonstall of Mass.; Chauncey Sparks of Ala.; J. Strom Thurmond of S.C.; William M. Tuck of Va.; George C. Wallace of Ala., and Fielding Wright of Miss.; U. S. Senators include: John H. Bankhead, Owen Brewster, Harry F. Byrd, James O. Eastland, Walter F. George, Lister Hill, Spessard L. Holland, and John Sparkman. U.S. Representatives include: George W. Andrews, Laurie C. Battle, Frank W. Boykin, George Grant, Sam Hobbs, George Huddleston, Robert E. Jones, and Albert Rains. Ala. politicians include: G. Claiborne Blanton, Albert Boutwell, Frank R. Broadway, C.J. Coley, Eugene "Bull" Connor, Sam Englehardt, Walter Givhan, Walter B. Jones, Thomas S. Lawson, Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr.; Gessner T. McCorvey, Ed Leigh McMillan, Albert Patterson, Marion Rushton, and Horace C. Wilkinson. Prominent newspapermen include: Tom Abernethy of the Talladega Daily Home; Harry M. Ayers of The Anniston Star; Virginius Dabney of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; John Temple Graves of the Birmingham Age-Herald; Grover C. Hall, Jr., of the Montgomery Advertiser; Horace Hall of The Dothan Eagle; Clarence and Victor Hanson of The Birmingham News; Barrett C. Shelton of the Decatur Daily News; Cash M. Stanley of the Montgomery Advertiser; and Earl L. Tucker of the Thomasville Times. There are many other prominent correspondents as well.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft. (5 records center cartons; 1 card index box for 3x5 cards; one oversized box; and 3 oversized folders).

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McNutt, Paul V. (Paul Vories), 1891-1955. Mss., 1899-1955

Title: McNutt mss. 1899-1955

Consists of the papers of Paul Vories McNutt, 1891-1955, lawyer, governor of Indiana and federal official.

ArchivalResource: 31,923

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