Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970

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Birth 1896
Death 1970

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James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and Coker College, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn School Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry.

From the description of James McBride Dabbs papers, 1914-1980 (bulk 1923-1970). WorldCat record id: 25507468

English professor, Presbyterian churchman, civil rights leader, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C.

From the description of Papers, 1912-1975. (Francis Marion University, James A Rogers Library). WorldCat record id: 28742362

James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a professor of English, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry.

1896 Born 8 May, Mayesville, Sumter County, S.C., son of farmer Eugene Whitefield Dabbs and Maude McBride 1916 AB, University of South Carolina 1917 1919 United States Army Field Artillery 1918 Married, 11 May, to Jesse Clyde Armstrong; children: Maude Elizabeth and Carolyn McBride 1919 1920 Director, Farm Life School, Vass, N.C. 1921 1924 Adjunct and later assistant professor, University of South Carolina 1923 1930 Intermittent graduate work in English, Columbia University 1925 1942 Professor, English Department, Coker College, Hartsville, S.C. 1933 Jesse Clyde Armstrong Dabbs died, 6 November 1935 Married, 11 June, to Edith Wells Mitchell; children: James McBride, Dorothy, Richard Whitefield 1942 1970 Farmer, writer, and lecturer; lived at Rip Raps Plantation, Mayesville, S.C. 1947 1952 Chair, South Carolina Council on Human Relations (member, board of directors, 1957-1963) 1955 1963 President, Southern Regional Council (member, executive committee, 1963-1970) 1957 1963 Member, executive committee, Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1964 1970 Chair, board of trustees, Penn Community Services (member of the board, 1957-1963) 1970 Died, 30 May, Rip Raps Plantation Delta Ministry of Mississippi Committee of Southern Churchmen Board of Trustees, Chaflin University Phi Beta Kappa (honorary) Democratic Party Presbyterian Church in the United States (ruling elder, Black River Presbyterian Church; member of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Christian Relations) Brotherhood Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews, for Southern Heritage, 1958 Citation from Detroit Chapter, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Honorary L.H.D., Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., 1959 Honorary L.L.D., Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., 1964 Introduction to Pee Dee Panorama, USC Press, 1951 Southern Heritage Knopf, 1958 The Road Home Christian Education Press, 1960 Who Speaks for the South? Funk and Wagnalls, 1964 Civil Rights in Recent Southern Fiction Southern Regional Council, 1969 Haunted by God John Knox Press, 1972

From the guide to the James McBride Dabbs Papers, 1914-1980, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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