John Herbert Roper papers, 1979-2003.

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John Herbert Roper papers, 1979-2003.

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Correspondence, interviews, writings, and other materials relating to historian John Herbert Roper's work as professor of history at Emory and Henry College and on topics in southern history. Among these materials are transcripts of and notes on interviews done in 1978 and 1980 with William T. Couch, Manning J. Dauer, John Hope Franklin, Guy B. Johnson, Guion Johnson, LeRoy E. Loemker, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Carl D. Stewart, and Bennett H. Wall about historian C. Vann Woodward. Also included is a transcript of an interview with Woodward; correspondence with Woodward that includes letters from Woodward about Tom Watson; and a manuscript by Roper of "Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race." There is also correspondence about historian U. B. Phillips; materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy about publication of a bibliography of the works of W. E. B. DuBois; correspondence and other papers relating to Roper's editing a collection of essays entitled "C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics"; an interview with Ellis Merton Coulter about U. B. Phillips; and correspondence and other materials relating to other aspects of Roper's writing and teaching.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Emory and Henry College

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Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513568 Educator; sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147654 Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Sc...

Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890-1981

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Ellis Merton Coulter (1890-1981), author, educator at the University of Georgia (1919-1958), and head of the History Dept. (1941-1958), resided in Athens, Georgia. From the description of E. Merton Coulter manuscript collection II, [ca. 1754-1920]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477251 Ellis Merton Coulter (1890-1981), author, educator at the University of Georgia (1919-1958) and head of the History Dept. (1941-1958), resided in Athens, Georgia. From the descri...

Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934

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Ulrich B. Phillips was a history professor in Madison, Wisconsin. Robert Preston Brooks was a 1904 Rhodes scholar and later a professor of economics and dean of the UGA School of Commerce (1920 to 1945). He was the first alumni secretary and founder and editor of the Georgia Alumni Record. From the description of Letters to Dr. Preston Brooks, 1907-1908. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 262845476 Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) was an author and historian who...

Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988

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William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964. From the description of William T. Couch papers, 1926-1988. WorldCat record id: 27190223 Publisher. From the descrip...

Stewart, Carl Devoe, 1902-

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Partington, Paul G.

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Wall, Bennett H.

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Bennett H. Wall, professor of history at the University of Georgia at Athens and secretary of the Southern Historical Association. From the description of Bennett H. Wall papers, 1960-1966 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25696787 From the guide to the Bennett H. Wall Papers, 1960-1966, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

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American Marxist author, lecturer, and apologist. From the guide to the Herbert Aptheker letter to Mrs. Doares, 1970, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Noted Marxist scholar Dr. Herbert Aptheker was born in New York City in 1915. His more than thirty published books include such titles as THE ERA OF McCARTHYISM (1957), THE WORLD OF C. WRIGHT MILLS (1960), THE URGENCY OF MARXIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE (1970), but he is best known for hi...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

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Dean of African American historians, John Hope Franklin was born January 2, 1915 in Rentriesville, Oklahoma. His family relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma shortly after the Tulsa Disaster of 1921. Franklin's mother, Mollie was a teacher and his father, B.C. Franklin was an attorney who handled lawsuits precipitated by the famous Tulsa Race Riot. Graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1931, Franklin received an A.B. from Fisk University in 1935 and went on to attend Harvard University, whe...

Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995

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J. Carlyle Sitterson (1911-1995) was born in Kinston, N.C. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1931 and began teaching history at UNC in 1935 while completing his Ph. D. In 1955, Sitterson became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and, in 1965, he was appointed vice-chancellor. Serving as chancellor from 1966 to 1971, he steered the University through major desegregation efforts, anti- Vietnamese War protests, and general campus unrest while reorganizing the admin...

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...

Loemker, Leroy E.

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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989

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Historian; interviewee married Guy B. Johnson. From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376707 From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620334 Guion Griffis Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a professor, author, scholar, journalist, women's a...

Roper, John Herbert, 1948-

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John Herbert Roper is History Department chair and Richardson Professor of American History at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va. He received his M.A. from North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He is the author of many volumes on southern history including C. Vann Woodward, Southerner (1987); U. B. Phillips: A Southern Mind (1984), and Paul Green's War Songs (1993). From the guide to the John Herbert Roper Papers, 1979-2003, (Universi...

Dauer, Manning Julian, 1909-

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Manning Julian Dauer (1909-1987) received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Florida in 1930 and 1931. He earned his Ph. D. in History from the University of Illinois in 1933. Dauer returned to UF in 1933 and taught in the Department of History and Political Science and, later, the Department of Political Science when the latter became a separate department. He was the first chair of the department and served in that position for twenty-five years. As a respected p...