Reames, J. Mitchell (James Mitchell), 1920-1987. J. Mitchell Reames papers, 1907-1990.
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J. Mitchell Reames papers, 1907-1990.
Correspondence, writings, reports, newsclippings, scrapbooks, and audio tapes documenting chiefly J.M. Reames' career as an academic librarian in South Carolina and Louisiana and his activities as a layman in the Methodist Church. Papers documenting the history of academic and public libraries in South Carolina and Southeast, especially re University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Francis Marion College, South Carolina Library Association, and Southwestern Library Association; papers re United Methodist Church in South Carolina, South Carolina Methodist Conference, McCleod's Chapel Methodist Church, Rembert, Trenholm Road Methodist Church, Columbia, and Central Methodist Church, Florence. Papers re other institutions, including Claflin College, Orangeburg, which Reames served as member of the board of trustees, and Furman University, focusing in particular on the 1940s crisis in faculty hiring practices. Also contains topical files re Reames' interest or involvement in the Christian Action Council, Columbia School for the Laity, journalist Weldon James, African-American Congressman George Washington Murray, and the history of Sumter County. Correspondents include Albert S. Berghauser, A. McKay Brabham, Jr., E. Milby Burton, James F. Byrnes, Hodding Carter, J. Isaac Copeland, James McBride Dabbs, Cyrus B. Dawsey, W.J. Bryan Dorn, J.H. Easterby, Ernest A. Finney, Jr., James T. Gittman, John Goodman, Frank P. Graham, Larry A. Jackson, Rhett Jackson, Weldon James, Ernest F. Hollings, Arthur M. Martin, Earle E. Morris, Jr., Jack Morris, Albert C. Outler, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Robert Franklin Poole, Alfred Rawlinson, R. Wright Spears, Eben Taylor, and Estellene P. Walker.
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12.5 linear ft. (10 cartons)
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