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Preferred Citation

Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession # 7690-i, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was acquired as a gift on June 18, 1968.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of Virginius Dabney contain extensive correspondence 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, African Americans, 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.

This holding consists of three boxes of material generated by Dabney's book, Below the Potomac (New York, 1942), including fourteen folders of notes, correspondence, clippings, tear-sheets, brochures, reports, material gathered for the book, and outlines and drafts for parts of several chapters. The material is filed by subject, including the New Deal, franchises and poll taxes, civil liberties, rightist groups, African American education, race relations, and related topics.