A Guide to the Virginius Dabney Papers , 1940-1944 #7690

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Scope and Content Information

The collection contains extensive correspondence, ca. 1930 to 1968, carried on by Dabney as editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch , in his personal, life, and as a Pulitzer Prize- winning author. Other materials deal with his books such as Below the Potomac, The Dry Messiah, and Liberalism in the South , and much useful material collected as research material for these books is present. There is extensive material on the American Society of Newspaper Editors which Dabney served in various capacities including president. A great deal of useful material on race relations, the African American, the N.A.A.C.P., etc., is present. Recent political history of Virginia is strongly represented in Dabney's correspondence as editor of Virginia's leading newspaper, and in his personal correspondence with figures such as Senator A. Willis Robinson, Francis Pickens Miller, and Senator Carter Glass.

Contents List

Materials Relating to World War II

Box 1
National Defense Commission 1940-1941

ca. 30 items
Box 1
Council of Refugee Aid--Roy Veach, Ex. Secretary 1941

ca. 8 items
Box 1
Food for the Small Democracies 1941

4 items
Box 1
Namesake Towns Committee, Inc.--Mrs. Leonard Hart, Ex. Secretary 1941

3 items
Box 1
National Committee on the Housing Emergency--Mrs. S.I. Rosenman, Chairman 1941

5 items
Box 1
National Student Merger Committee--John S. MacCauley, Secretariat 1941

4 items
Box 1
United Americans--Edward Hart, Ex.Director 1941

5 items
Box 1
"Young Europe in America," Miss Clara Leiser 1941

6 items
Box 1
Mrs. Alice Burke, Secretary, Communist Party 1941-1942

5 items
Box 1
Council for Democracy 1940-1942

2 folders, ca. 200 items
Box 1
Arthur Glasgow 1941-1942

ca. 75 items
Box 1
Southern Conference for Human Welfare 1940-1942

ca. 20 items
Box 1
United China Relief 1941-1942
Box 1
Contractors 1942

ca. 10 items

Defense eds. 2/28-3/2-3/5, 1942
Box 1
Democracy Programs Executive Committee Office, Civilian Defense 1942

ca. 10 items
Box 1
International Student Service, Mr. Alvin Johnson, Chairman 1942

3 items
Box 1
Kane, R. Keith, Chief Intelligence Bureau, Office of Information 1942

ca. 35 items
Box 2
The League of Nations 1942

3 items
Box 2
Dr. Douglas VanderHoof 1942

2 items
Box 2
Loyal Americans of German Descent, Dr. G.P. Bronisch, Vice President 1941-1943

ca. 30 items
Box 2
MacLeish, Archibald, Director Facts and Figures, Washington, D.C. 1942-1943

6 items
Box 2
Victory Conference, Louis Bromfield 1942-1943

6 items
Box 2
Commmittee Canned Fruit, Vegetables, Etc.; L. Metcalf Walling, Adm. 1943

17 items
Box 2
Davison, Mrs. Henry P. (Food for Freedom, Inc.) 1943

ca. 16 items
Box 2
Ginsberg Case 1943

ca. 5 items
Box 2
The Nation 1940-1943

13 items
Box 2
Letters regarding removal of Westbrook Pegler's column 1943

2 folders, ca. 200 items
Box 2
Correspondence Panels Section, Office War Information, Lucian Warner, Chief 1942-1944

ca. 60 items
Box 2
Farm Security Administration 1943-1944

ca. 50 items
Box 2
Freedom House 1941-1944

ca. 35 items
Box 2
Honor Roll 1943-1944

ca. 40 items
Box 2
Red Cross 1942-1944

ca. 40 items
Box 3
Richmond Defense Savings Committee Executive Committee 1941-1944

ca. 100 items
Box 3
Warren, Lindsay C., Comptroller General of the United States 1943-1944

8 items
Box 3
Editorial "Wanted: A Rededication for America," Correspondence 1943-1944

ca. 25 items
Box 3
Edward R. Stettinius 1940-1944

ca. 100 items
Box 3
Correspondence Regarding Kentucky Education Association Speech April, 1944
Box 3
National Conference of Christians and Jews, A.W. Gottschall, Southern Director 1944

6 items
Box 3
National Committee Against Nazi Persecution and Extermination of the Jews 1944

16 items
Box 3
Saito, Penny 1944

6 items
Box 3
Editorial "Roosevelt's Re-election" 10/24/44

24 items
Box 3
George Creel, "The Plight of the Last Censor" n.d.

1 item

Materials Relating to the African American

Box 4
Hampton Institute 1937-1940

ca. 30 items
Box 4
Democracy Defense League for Negro Youth 1941

3 items
Box 4
Pickens Case February, 1941

ca. 10 items
Box 4
Negroes and Defense 1941

ca. 25 items
Box 4
Odell Waller Case 1942

ca. 100 items
Box 4
Editorial, "The Negroes and the War" 1942-1943

ca. 125 items
Box 4
African Americans, Clippings, Articles 1942-1943

ca. 75 items
Box 5
Lowell, Mass. "Sun." 1940-1941

5 items
Box 5
J.R. Thomas, Virginia State College, Petersburg 1941

3 items
Box 5
African Americans, Clipping, Articles 1942-1943

ca. 50 items
Box 5
Negro Memorial Commission, Hon. Wm. A. Wright, Chair 1942-1943

ca. 20 items
Box 5
The Southern Frontier, Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, M.E. 1941-1943

ca. 35 items
Box 5
African Americans: Atlanta, Durham, Richmond Conference 1943

2 folders, ca. 200 items
Box 6
African Americans: Atlanta, Durham, Richmond Conference 1943

ca. 50 items

continuation from Box 5
Box 6
African American Editorial, "The Negroes and the War," letters of rebuttal 1942-1943

ca. 100 items
Box 6
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1943

9 items
Box 6
African Americans, Correspondence regarding Atlantic article 1943

ca. 50 items
Box 6
Segregation Correspondence 1943

2 folders, ca. 150 items
Box 6
Segregation--columns, editorials, Voice of the People, unused letters 1943

ca. 100 items
Box 6
African-Americans FEPC 1943-1944

6 items
Box 6
Negro Survey Graphic, The Christian Advocate, and ASNE articles, letters 1943-1944
Box 6
Segregation 1944

ca. 35 items

Miscellaneous Subjects ca. 1941-1944

Box 7
Miss May C. Fielder, Secretary, Institute of National Policy, William and Mary 1941
Box 7
Highlander Folk School 1941

2 items
Box 7
Sweet Briar 1941

13 items
Box 7
Virginia Long Range Planning Committee, Wortley F. Rudel 1940-1941

22 items
Box 7
Virginia Policy Committee ca. 1939-1941

ca. 100 items
Box 7
Andrews, T. Coleman 1941-1942

ca. 25 items
Box 7
George Foster Peabody Board 1941-1942

ca. 25 items
Box 7
Harris E. Starr, Dictionary of American Biography 1941-1942

21 items
Box 7
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council 1941-1942

ca. 100 items
Box 7
Country Club of Virginia 1942

2 items
Box 7
Francis P. Miller 1941-1942

ca. 50 items
Box 7
Southern Council on International Relations 1942

6 items
Box 7
Virginia Committee for Constitutional Rights, Aubrey Strauss, Chairman 1942
Box 7
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council 1941-1942

ca. 100 items
Box 7
Markel, Lester, Sunday Editor, New York Times ca. 1943

ca. 50 items
Box 7
National Civil Service Reform League, Cyrus C. Perry, Field Sec. 1941-1943

ca. 30
Box 7
Requests for Times-Dispatch 1943

6 items
Box 7
Southern Electoral Reform League, David L. George, Dir. 1941-1943

ca. 35 items
Box 7
Virginia Historical Society ca. 1941-1943

ca. 18 items
Box 8
Saturday Review of Literature , Mr. Norman Cousins 1942-1943

ca. 75 items
Box 8
American Society of Newspaper Editors, N.R. Howard, Sec'y

ca. 50 items
Box 8
Articles requested 1944

ca. 20 items
Box 8
Book reviews 1944

4 items
Box 8
Bryan, John Stewart 1941-1944

ca. 25 items
Box 8
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., Hunter D. Farish 1940-1944

ca. 25 items
Box 8
Correspondence concerning N.Y. Times article--July 30, 1944, "The Case for a Non-Solid South" 1944

15 items
Box 8
Davis, Jackson 1944

6 items
Box 8
Miss Lucy R. Mason 1941-1944

ca. 40 items
Box 8
New South, Regional Educational Institutions 1943-1944

ca. 30 items
Box 8
Southern Regional Council 1943-1944

ca. 100 items
Box 8
Dabney's Speaking Engagements 1942-1944

2 folders, ca. 150 items
Box 8