Progressive Party oral history interviews, 1975-1982.

Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

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Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House o...

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...

Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-....

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Patricia Sullivan (1950- ), educator, graduated with her Ph. D. in History from Emory University in 1983. She taught at the University of Virginia (1985-1994) and was a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (1995-2003). She currently teaches at the University of South Carolina (2003- ). She has also served as assistant director (1985-1994) of the Center for the Study of Civil Rights at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, Charlottesville, ...

Durr, Virginia Foster

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Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a civil rights activist and a friend of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. She was a relief worker during the Great Depression, worked as a lobbyist and campaign worker for Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in the 1940s, ran as a candidate for governor of Virginia in 1948, and worked as a civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. From the description of Durr, Virginia Foster, 1903-1999 (U.S. National Archiv...

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

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Studs Terkel was born May 16, 1912, and died in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2008. Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre. From the description of It's a living, [videorecording], 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612307109 and the description of Studs Terkel papers and book interviews, ca. 1950-1999. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713907330 ...

Popham, John

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Epithet: military commander and speaker-elect of the House of Commons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x00018e Epithet: Lord Chief Justice British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x00026b ...

Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983

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Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993

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Palmer, 1914-

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Associated with the Southern Council on Human Welfare. From the description of Oral history interview of Palmer Weber by Linda Reed [manuscript], November 13, 1983. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920667 ...

Abt, John J.

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Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

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Curtis MacDougall was born on February 11, 1903, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He started his career as a journalist there at the Fond du Lac Commonwealth-Reporter at the age of fifteen. He received a BA in English from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1923. He went on to obtain a Master's from Northwestern University in 1926 and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1933. After working at several newspapers, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1935. During the depress...

MacDougall, Curtis Daniel, 1903-

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Author, professor at Northwestern University, journalist, civic leader, and political activist, of Evanston, Ill. From the description of Papers, 1904-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966240 During his more than 35 years at Northwestern University, Curtis MacDougall – Dr. Mac to his students – emerged as one of America's leading journalism experts and educators. He was apologetically blunt, remaining outspoken on his beliefs, political and otherwise, until...

Hunter, Floyd.

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Floyd Hunter (1912-1992), social worker and administrator, community worker, professor, and author, was the originator of the "power concept" in contemporary sociology. From the description of Floyd Hunter papers, 1933-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863288 ...

Blackwell, Randolph T.

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Rainey, Glenn W. (Glenn Weddington), 1907-1989.

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Glenn Weddington Rainey, educator and author, was born 7 April 1907, in Atlanta, Georgia, and died 29 March 1989, in Atlanta, Georgia. A professor of English at Georgia Institute of Technology (1932-1974), Rainey was also a founder of Tech's chapter of the American Association of University Professors and of the Georgia Education Association. He was active in many political and civic organizations including the Georgia Commission on International Cooperation, the Committee for Georgia, Citizens'...