Scrapbooks [manuscript] 1941.

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Scrapbooks [manuscript] 1941.

Correspondence, clippings, handouts and membership lists. The volumes chronicle the formation and activities of the Virginia Fight for Freedom Committee, an organization which combatted isolationism and supported the Allied war effort before the U.S. entry. Correspondents include Richard Evelyn Byrd, Virginius Dabney, Carter Glass, Francis Pickens Miller, Claude Pepper, and Dave Edward Satterfield.

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Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

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Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House o...

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946

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Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on 4 January 1858. Member of Virginia State Senate, 1898-1906; member of U.S. House of Representatives. 1902-1918; Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-1920, Member of U.S. Senate, 1920-1946. Died in Washington, D.C. on 28 May 1946. From the description of Letter : from Horace Mann Towner, 1925 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122701025 Virginia statesman; Secretary of the Treasury. From the description of Letter, 1933 February, Uni...

Satterfield, Dave Edward, 1894-1946,

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Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995

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Newspaper editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Virginius Dabney : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513091 Virginia newspaper editor and author. From the description of Papers of Virginius Dabney [manuscript], 1926-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806495 From the description of Papers, 1926-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958583 Editor...

Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his ex...

Miller, Francis Pickens, 1895-1978

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Government official. From the description of Papers of Francis Pickens Miller [manuscript], 1885-1976. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647825652 ...

Brown, Barbara Colquhoun Trigg.

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Virginia Fight for Freedom Committee.

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