Reminiscences of William Terry Couch : oral history, 1970.

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Reminiscences of William Terry Couch : oral history, 1970.

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Childhood and education, rural Virginia; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Press, Associate Director, 1926-1932 and Director, 1932-1945; freedom of the press in the South; problems of tenant farmers and the Farm Security Administration; Southern Policy Committee; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Federal Writers Project, Regional Director, 1937-1939; THESE ARE OUR LIVES; University of Chicago Press, Director, 1945-1950; COLLIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, editor-in-chief, 1952-1959; OXFORD JUNIOR ENCYCLOPEDIA, editor, 1959-1963; William Volker Foundation; impressions of the Nashville Agrarians, Henry G. Alsberg, Clarence Carson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Frank P. Graham, Robert M. Hutchins, Herman C. Nixon, Howard W. Odum, and others.

Transcript: 571 leaves.Tape: 5 reels.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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