John Burnett Morris papers, 1956-1977.

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Morris, John Burnett, 1930-. John Burnett Morris papers, 1956-1977.

John Burnett Morris papers, 1956-1977.

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Correspondence and printed materials (3317 items) relating to the production of South Carolinians Speak: A Moderate Approach to Race Relations (1957), including papers reflecting the writing, editing, printing, financing, promotion, and distribution of this collection of essays. Collection includes mimeographed documents produced by J.B. Morris as part of initial planning for the project, followed by progress reports, adn final evaluation of the project; letters reflecting positive and negative responses to the publication and correspondence with state and national press, as well as a later letter written in 1977 in which Morris reflects upon the project and its impact. Correspondence between J.B. Morris and David Lawrence, Thomas R. Waring, and George Bell Timmerman. Morris' correspondents include compilers who assisted with editing and publication: Ralph E. Cousins, Joseph R. Horn III, Larry Al Jackson, and John S. Lyles; and letters from the contributors: John Clyde Barrington, Helen Burr Christensen, Robert Beverly Herbert, J. Emmet Jerome, Arthur Locke King, Prentiss McLeod Kinney, John W. Moore, Andrew Peeples, Julia Rees Reynolds, Claudia Thomas Sanders, Andrew McDowd Secrest, and Edgar Nelson Sullivan; and correspondence from the public showing positive and negative responses to the publication. Scrapbook, 1957-1958, consisting of newspaper clippings re publication of South Carolinians Speak; clippings include description of the violence directed against members of the group, Concerned South Carolinians, an organization composed of five clergymen.

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