Leland B. Tate Papers, 1940-[1955?], n.d.

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Leland B. Tate Papers, 1940-[1955?], n.d.

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Newspaper clippings relating to industrial and economic development in the New River Valley, with an emphasis on the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, together with studies titled "Facts About the Blacksburg Community" and "Some Facts About Virginia's People."

0.2 cu. ft.; 1 box

eng,

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Tate, Leland B.

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Leland B. Tate, son of John and Ada Jessee Tate, was born on March 28, 1905, and reared in Russell County, Virginia. After graduating from Emory and Henry College in 1927, Tate worked as a banker and published a book titled The Virginia Guide . He attended graduate school at the University of Virginia and received a master's degree in economics and sociology in 1931. He later obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell. In 1937, Tate became an associate professor of rural sociology at Virginia Te...