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- catalog abstract "Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of Virginia and Clifford Durr, the Durrs' FBI files, clippings and photographs of Virginia Durr and her family, and materials about her education. There are also Clifford Durr's files on the Eastland hearings; research notes and drafts of Outside the Magic Circle and other writings; speech notes; and materials collected by Durr, mostly writings by others. Correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection. It includes correspondence with family and friends, mostly letters to Durr; notable exceptions are the many letters from Durr to Tom and Lois Eliot and Clark and Mairi Foreman. The letters are about friends, social life, U.S. politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, socialism, pacifism, and the South. There are a few letters from or to Clifford Durr or other family and friends; many of the latter were sent as enclosures in letters to Virginia Durr. The collection includes letters from Jessica Mitford; Durr's letters to Mitford are housed with Mitford's papers at the University of Texas at Austin.".
- catalog contributor b756710.
- catalog coverage "Alabama History.".
- catalog coverage "Birmingham (Ala.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Montgomery (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Wetumpka (Ala.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog date "1919".
- catalog description "Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of Virginia and Clifford Durr, the Durrs' FBI files, clippings and photographs of Virginia Durr and her family, and materials about her education. There are also Clifford Durr's files on the Eastland hearings; research notes and drafts of Outside the Magic Circle and other writings; speech notes; and materials collected by Durr, mostly writings by others.".
- catalog description "Born in 1903 and raised in Birmingham, Ala., Virginia Foster Durr was the youngest child of Anne (Patterson) and Sterling Johnson Foster. She attended Wellesley College from 1921 to 1923 and in 1926 married Clifford Judkins Durr. In 1933 the Durrs moved to Seminary Hill, Va.. During the years the Durrs lived there, Virginia Durr led an active social life. Her circle included government officials she knew through her husband and her sister, Josephine, and brother-in-law, Hugo Black, Sr. She also devoted time to liberal causes. From 1938 to 1948 Durr was active in the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, primarily fighting the poll tax. She campaigned for the Progressive Party, supporting Henry Agard Wallace's 1948 presidential bid. She also endorsed the American Peace Crusade in 1951.".
- catalog description "Correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection. It includes correspondence with family and friends, mostly letters to Durr; notable exceptions are the many letters from Durr to Tom and Lois Eliot and Clark and Mairi Foreman. The letters are about friends, social life, U.S. politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, socialism, pacifism, and the South. There are a few letters from or to Clifford Durr or other family and friends; many of the latter were sent as enclosures in letters to Virginia Durr. The collection includes letters from Jessica Mitford; Durr's letters to Mitford are housed with Mitford's papers at the University of Texas at Austin.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00560".
- catalog description "In 1951, after a brief period in Denver, the Durrs returned to Alabama, where Clifford Durr opened a private law practice in Montgomery, and Virginia Durr worked as his secretary. In 1954 Virginia Durr and others were accused of being Communists and were called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by James Eastland of Mississippi. Although Clifford Durr did not serve as his wife's attorney, he did a great deal of work on the case. The accusations were ultimately proven to be false.".
- catalog description "In 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, Clifford Durr was called in as her attorney and arranged for her release on bail. This incident sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, during which African Americans refused to ride on public transportation in the city for over a year.".
- catalog description "Preliminary finding aid; most Schlesinger Library finding aids are also available in the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (Chadwyck-Healey, 1984- ).".
- catalog description "The Durrs had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood: Ann Durr Lyon, Lucy Durr Hackney, Virginia Foster ("Tilla") Durr, and Lulah Durr Colan. Since the death of Clifford Durr in 1975, Virginia Durr has continued to live in Wetumpka, Ala., spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her autobiography, Outside the Magic Circle, was published in 1985.".
- catalog description "There is related material: Virginia Foster Durr Papers at Alabama Department of Archives and History.".
- catalog description "Virginia Foster Durr Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog extent "4 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1919".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Alabama History.".
- catalog spatial "Alabama.".
- catalog spatial "Birmingham (Ala.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Montgomery (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog spatial "Wetumpka (Ala.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights.".
- catalog subject "American Peace Crusade.".
- catalog subject "Anti-communist movements United States.".
- catalog subject "Black nationalism United States.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements United States.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights workers Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Durr, Virginia Foster.".
- catalog subject "Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States.".
- catalog subject "Friendship United States.".
- catalog subject "Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)".
- catalog subject "Internal security United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Montgomery Improvement Association.".
- catalog subject "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.".
- catalog subject "Peace movements United States.".
- catalog subject "Poll tax Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)".
- catalog subject "Radicals United States.".
- catalog subject "Segregation Alabama.".
- catalog subject "Southern Conference Educational Fund.".
- catalog subject "Southern Conference on Human Welfare.".
- catalog subject "United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws.".
- catalog subject "Wellesley College Students.".
- catalog subject "Women Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Women civil rights workers United States.".
- catalog subject "Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1919-1991 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "collection".