Kenneth Douty Collection. 1940-1956.

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Kenneth Douty Collection. 1940-1956.

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This small collection consists of the papers Kenneth Douty generated and used during his report for the Fund for the Republic as part of its larger project examining the activities of American Communists. The bulk of the collection is the correspondence between Douty and Frank McCallister, Director of Roosevelt University's Labor Education Division and the people they solicited materials or interviews from while doing research. Of special interest is James Dombrowski's response to Douty's questionnaire regarding Communist infiltration of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW). His answers illustrate the membership and turmoil of the organization in its later years. Dombrowski was an administrator of the SCHW until he left in 1947 to become the Executive Director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Of note is the 1939 correspondence of sociologist Howard Odum that documents the development of the Southern Regional Council. There are also reports, minutes, and publications Douty and McCallister collected as background research.

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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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...

McCallister, Frank.

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Douty, Kenneth.

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In 1955 Kenneth Douty wrote a report for the Fund for the Republic as part of its larger project examining the activities of American Communists. The focus of Douty's study was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW). His study was part of an examination of Communist infiltration of ideological pressure groups (the NAACP, ACLU, etc.). The study was headed by John Roche, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Douty was assisted in his study by F...

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formed in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to promote civil liberties and to combat economic problems in the South by expanding the New Deal to attack southern poverty. The organization campaigned against the poll tax, allied itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, held interracial meetings, and followed a "popular front" strategy which allowed Communists membership in SCHW. This policy led to charges of Communist influence, a factor ...

Dombrowksi, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983.

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Southern patriot.

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