Papers relating to race relations [manuscript] 1943-1958.

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Papers relating to race relations [manuscript] 1943-1958.

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Form letters and appeals for contributions from such organizations as the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Virginia Council of Churches, The Southern Regional Council, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, etc. Also a memorandum from the Conference of Graduate Education for Negroes, Durham, N.C., 1945 July, form letters from Lillian Smith regarding the "South Today" and a campaign to free Tee Davis; an offprint from Harper's Magazin "Race riots can be prevented" by Ernest A. Gray, Jr.; and literature regarding Pacificana, a program to promote appreciation of Asian nations.

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Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966

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"Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said) and that it leads to social moral retardation."--"Lillian Smith (1897-1966)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 18, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. From the descri...

Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation

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Dalton, Jack, 1908-

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Main Librarian, Reference and Associate Librarian of the University of Virginia Alderman Library. Director of International Relations Office of the American Library Association. From the description of Oral history interview of Jack Dalton by Charles E. Moran [manuscript], May 23, 1977. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920063 University of Virginia Librarian, 1950-1956; Dean of the Columbia University School of Library Service. From the descriptio...

Gray, Ernest A.

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Conference of Graduate Education for Negroes (1945 July : Durham, N.C.)

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Virginia Council of Churches

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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 ...

Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...