Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1881-1988 (bulk 1965-1988).

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Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1881-1988 (bulk 1965-1988).

The collection consists of correspondence, papers, reports, newsclippings, recordings, pamphlets and other printed material, and photographs pertaining to Mrs. Stone's service in the General Assembly, her involvement in the League of Women Voters, her work in the planning of Reston, Va., and subjects in which she was interested particularly civil rights, desegregation, education, health and women's issues. Subtopics include Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond; Arlington, Va.; the Byrd machine; her political campaigns; the Consortium for Continuing Higher Education in Virginia; the Gray Commission (Governor's Commission on Public Education); the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Civil Service League; states rights; Virginia politics and government; and the draft Stevenson movement, 1960. Also of interest are a political scrapbook, 1953-1955, kept by Mrs. Stone, audiotapes of a Reston housing conference, and her book "Reston: a study of beginnings". Correspondents include J.L. Blair Buck of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools and Mary Cushing Howard Niles.

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University of Virginia. Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Buck, J. L. Blair (James Lawrence Blair), 1886-1967

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Stone, Kathryn H. (Kathryn Haeseler), 1906-1995

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Virginia state delegate from Arlington County, Va. From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1916-1995 (bulk 1941-1985). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647867971 From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1881-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833379 Va. State delegate from Arlington Co., Va. From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1...

National Civil Service League

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Niles, Mary Cushing Howard.

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Virginia. General Assembly

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Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia</a>. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party (Va.)">http://scrc...

Consortium for Continuing Higher Education in Virginia.

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Virginia. Commission on Public Education

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Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

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Lawyer, of Roanoke and Richmond, Va.; Roanoke City Hustings Court judge; member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1945-1948; Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-1957; Governor of Virginia, 1959-1962; judge, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1963-1986. From the description of Papers, 1850-1987. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 33953204 Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Mari...