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- catalog abstract "Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of the Durrs, their FBI files, clippings, and photographs. 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. Correspondence with friends and family makes up the bulk of the collection. Most are letters to Durr. The letters are about 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. 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 b4555999.
- catalog date "1929".
- catalog description "Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of the Durrs, their FBI files, clippings, and photographs. 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.".
- 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. Durr was active in the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, primarily fighting the poll tax (1938-48), campaigned for the Progressive Party, supporting Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential bid and endorsed the American Peace Crusade (1951).".
- catalog description "Correspondence with friends and family makes up the bulk of the collection. Most are letters to Durr. The letters are about 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. 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, Clifford Durr opened a private law practice in Montgomery, with Virginia Durr acting 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. The accusations were ultimately proven to be false. In 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passanger, Clifford Durr arranged for her release on bail. The Durrs had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Since the death of Clifford Durr in 1975, Virginia Durr continued to live in Wetumpka, Ala. Her autobiography, Outside the Magic Circle, was published in 1985. She died in Carlisle, Pa., in 1999.".
- 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 "There is related material: Virginia Foster Durr Papers at Alabama Department of Archives and History.".
- catalog description "This is a description of a portion (Series II) of the Virginia Foster Durr Papers. For additional information, see the overall collection record: Virginia Foster Durr Papers, 1919-1991.".
- catalog description "Virginia Foster Durr Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog extent "3 linear ft.".
- catalog isPartOf "Papers, 1919-1991.".
- catalog issued "1929".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Papers, 1919-1991.".
- catalog subject "Durr, Virginia Foster, 1939-".
- catalog subject "Durr, Virginia Foster.".
- catalog subject "MacDougall, Curtis Daniel, 1903-".
- catalog subject "McFeely, Mary Drake.".
- catalog subject "McFeely, William S.".
- catalog subject "Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996.".
- catalog subject "Murphy, Patricia Lee.".
- catalog subject "Nathan, Otto, 1893-1987.".
- catalog subject "Nixon, Edgar Daniel.".
- catalog subject "Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.".
- catalog subject "Pauling, Ava Helen.".
- catalog subject "Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994.".
- catalog subject "Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989.".
- catalog subject "Roberts, A. (Andrew)".
- catalog subject "Roemer, Ruth, 1916-2005.".
- catalog subject "Romilly, Constantia.".
- catalog subject "Romilly, Esmond.".
- catalog subject "Rosenberg, John S.".
- catalog subject "Rosengarten, Theodore.".
- catalog subject "Salmond, John A.".
- catalog subject "Simkins, Modjeska.".
- catalog subject "Smith, Robert Ellis.".
- catalog subject "Stone, I. F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989.".
- catalog subject "Styron, William, 1925-2006.".
- catalog subject "Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.".
- catalog subject "Thrasher, Sue.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965.".
- catalog subject "Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965.".
- catalog subject "Winston, William Alexander, -1937.".
- catalog subject "Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.".
- catalog title "Papers: Series II, 1929-1991 (inclusive).".