Rupert Bayless Vance papers, 1926-1975 [manuscript].

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Rupert Bayless Vance papers, 1926-1975 [manuscript].

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Correspondence, mostly scattered, of Vance, about fifty drafts and other versions of writings by Vance, and miscellaneous other items. Correspondence, chiefly from the 1950s, deals largely with Vance's projects involving economic and social conditions in the South and with his administrative duties. There also are a letter, 1935, from poet Donald Davidson (1893-1968); letters, 1933, 1949, 1954, from C. Vann Woodward (1908- ); and letters, various dates, from Howard W. Odum. Letters from the 1930s discuss the status of sociology at the University of North Carolina.

750 items (2.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of C. Vann Woodward : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419190 C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, on November 13, 1908. He received his Ph.B. from Emory University in 1930; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932; and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of history at the Univer...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954

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Howard Washington Odum was a sociologist of the American South; author; professor at the University of North Carolina from 1920 to 1954; and founder of the Sociology Department, the School of Public Welfare, the Department of City and Carolina. From the description of Howard Washington Odum papers, 1908-1982. WorldCat record id: 27192779 Howard Washington Odum, sociologist, author, and educator, was born 24 May 1884, in Bethlehem, Georgia, and died 8 November 1954, in Chapel...

Vance, Rupert Bayless, 1899-1975

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Rupert Bayless Vance : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740774 Rupert B. Vance (1899-1975), Kenan professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was associated with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University from the 1920s to the 1970s. He was a leading sociologist of the American South and actively encouraged social, ...

Davidson, Donald, 1893-1968

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Author, poet, teacher, and editor. Member of the Fugitive and Agrarian Groups. From the description of Donald Davidson Papers, 1917-1968. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 17789409 ...