Civil rights and social activism in the South : James A. Dombrowski and the Southern Conference Educational Fund.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Series:

Archives unbound

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983.

Dombrowski, James A.

Southern Conference Educational Fund--History.

Southern Conference Educational Fund.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Southern States.

Genre:

History

Sources

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.

Summary:

James Dombrowski was a southern white Methodist minister and intellectual who was active in the African American civil rights movement from the 1940s through 1960s. This collection consists of his correspondence and papers as leader of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1941-1948, and executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1948-1966. These interracial civil rights organizations were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the success of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Included are letters from colleagues at Emory University and Union Theological Seminary, exchanges with Reinhold Niebuhr, and drafts of Dombrowski's dissertation and other written works. Prominent correspondents include Albert Einstein, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Aubrey Williams. Also included are materials collected by Frank Adams for an unpublished biography of Dombrowski, including additional correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, notes, and diaries. This collection consists of four series: Biographical Information, Correspondence, Subject Files, and The Frank Adams Files.

Contents:

Subcollections: Biographical Information, 1963-1983

Correspondence

Frank Adams Files, Correspondence

Frank Adams Files, Subject Files

Subject File.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on March 8, 2024).

Date range of documents: 1941-1966.

Reproduction of the originals from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

OCLC:

1390452807

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.