Harriet L. Herring papers, 1925-1968 [manuscript].

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Harriet L. Herring papers, 1925-1968 [manuscript].

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Over half of these papers are letters between Harriet Herring and textile mill representatives, research colleagues, newspaper and journal editors, and politicians. Most of the rest of the papers are writings, including drafts of books, articles, speeches, and other works, and material collected during her research. The papers date from Herring's 1925 appointment as research assistant at the Institute for Research in Social Science to her retirement from the University of North Carolina in 1968. Most of the letters are of a professional nature, relating largely to research projects and other academic activities. There also are scattered personal letters, particularly from the 1960s. The topics of the writings include labor strikes in Southern cotton mills, life in mill villages in North Carolina, welfare work in mill villages, part-time farming by mill workers, tax support for public schools, industrial relations, and various other facets of Southern industrialization. Prominent correspondents include Luther H. Hodges, governor of North Carolina and U.S. Secretary of Commerce; University of North Carolina president Frank Porter Graham; University of North Carolina sociologist and Institute director Howard W. Odum; and Gerald White Johnson of the Baltimore "Sun" newspaper.

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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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