Diary, 1914-1971.

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Diary, 1914-1971.

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Kept by David John Mays (1896-1971) primarily as a lawyer in Richmond, Va.; the volumes also cover Mays's attendance at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.; his service in the Delaware National Guard and the United States Army on the Mexican Border, 1916-1917, and in France with the Allied Expeditionary Force; the research, writing, and review of his Pulitzer Prixe-winning biography of Virginia jurist Edmund Pendleton (published in 1952); his long association with the Virginia Historical Society as trustee and board president; his activities as counsel for the Virginia Bankers Association, Virginia Highway Users Association, and Virginia Commission on Public Education; his work as chair of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government; his service as president of the Virginia State Library Board, Virginia State Bar Association, and American Bar Association; and his contributions as an adjunct professor in the law school of the University of Richmond. Subjects covered by diary entries include legal education and the practice of law in Virginia; Virginia politics and government; massive resistance and school desgregation; and racial relations in the South.

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