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James A. Dombrowski papers, 1918-1983
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Papers of the former executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The collection consists largely of correspondence, notes, speeches and writings, and reports post-dating his ret...
Papers of the former executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The collection consists largely of correspondence, notes, speeches and writings, and reports post-dating his retirement in 1966 plus some materials from the 1920s and 1930s. Present too are materials collected by Frank Adams and used in an unpublished biography of Dombrowski. Correspondents include Carl and Anne Braden, Ethel Clyde, Virginia Durr, Albert Einstein, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Aubrey Williams. The subject files also reflect Dombrowski's private life and interests including art and his alma mater, Emory University.
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- Mixed Materials
- Language
- English
- Physical Details
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- 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)
- OCLC
- ocn145770860, ocn145800344
- Finding Aids
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- Register (including cross references to Primary Source Media microfilm.) Also, see guide to Primary Source Media microfilm in Historical Society Library at: Pam 09-1349
- Also available on microfilm as Civil rights and social activism in the South [microform]. Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Microfilm, 2007, series 3. (Microfilm in Historical Society Microfilm Room Series 3 Reel 1 to 17 P09-683 to P09-699).
- Presented by James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979-1981; by Frank Adams, Somerville, Massachusetts, 1986; and by the University of New Orleans, 1990.
Subjects
- Adams, Frank, 1934-
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006.
- Braden, Carl, 1914-1975.
- Clyde, Ethel, 1879-
- Durr, Virginia Foster.
- Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Southern Conference Educational Fund.
- Emory University.
- African Americans -- Civil rights.
- Artists.