Chiefly correspondence with state and national leaders in fields of politics, education, and religion, re matters that concerned many during the era of the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, and other social issues during the post-World War II period. Papers re Tucker's efforts to secure the secret ballot in S.C.; anti-strike legislation; civilian defense; stricter qualifications for appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court; education for world peace and in relation to foreign policy, educating residents to promote "Democratic Citizenship" and textbooks for S.C. schools; publicity on the Anti-Communist League of America; efforts to expose Communism in the National Council of Churches; and her work with various "patriotic" organizations and women's clubs. Political leaders represented among the correspondents include 49 U.S. Senators (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, James F. Byrnes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Olin D. Johnson, Burnet R. Maybank, Strom Thurmond, Richard B. Russell, and others); 15 U.S. Congressmen including Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Sam Rayburn, John P. Richards, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, L. Mendel Rivers, and George S. Long, and others); and 19 governors (Frank G.Clement, Marvin Griffin, Harold W. Handley, James T. Blair, Joe Foss, Price Daniel, Herschel C. Loveless, James E. Folsom, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Robert E. McNair, and others). Scrapbook, 1928-1962, compiled in Charleston, S.C., and elsewhere; chiefly newspaper clippings re the Tucker and Ramseur families and her political activities as a member of the Republican Party, especially her crusade for the secret ballot in S.C.; articles expressing her views on various political topics, efforts to promote the teaching of government and citizenship in the schools and colleges of S.C.; opposing changes in the U.S. Supreme Court and advocating certain qualifications for appointment to the Court; promoting various causes including: racial segregation; education for world peace; work during World War II; the sales tax; and S.C. products; includes copies of speeches and addresses made to various organizations; broadsides promoting use of the secret ballot and international study plan; picture of a portrait of Thomas Tudor Tucker, an article re exhibit at the Gibbes Art Gallery, "100 Likenesses of Doctors who Practiced before 1860" and information of the Pinckney-Izard collection of miniature portraits; letters of J.Strom Thurmond, Jesse T. Anderson, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Douglas McKay, Albert S. Thomas, Mark W. Clark, and Donald Russell. (R.174) Scrapbook, 1941-1967, clippings re news coverage of Tucker's social and political activities related to her advocacy of "Education for National Security... for World Peace.... For Internal Security" and opposition to the present method of appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court and the work of the National Council of Churches; includes copies of letters and originals from John Foster Dulles, Mark W. Clark, Barry Goldwater, Jesse T. Anderson, James H. Hope, E.V. Rickenbaker, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hubert H. Humphrey, Herman Talmadge, A.S. Thomas, Estes Kefauver, Strom Thurmond, Thurston B. Morton, E.R. Stettinius, Jr., William D. Workman, Jr., and L. Mendel Rivers. (R.263) Scrapbook, 1949-1953, compiled in East Point (Fulton County, Ga.), newspaper clippings and correspondence re Tucker's work with the Garden Club and Chamber of Commerce promoting community improvement, as Chairman of the "Buy Georgia Products Festival," and industrial progress of Georgia, with letters of Georgia political leaders and school officials including Gov. Herman Talmadge and Richard B. Russell (R.284).
