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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 family and friends makes up the bulk of the collection. Most of the letters are 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 b4555992.
- catalog date "1919".
- 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 (1938-1948); campaigned for the Progressive Party, supporting Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential bid; and endorsed the American Peace Crusade (1951).".
- catalog description "Correspondence with family and friends makes up the bulk of the collection. Most of the letters are 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 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 false. In 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, Clifford Durr arranged for her release on bail.The Durrs had five children, four of which survived to adulthood. Since the death of Clifford Durr in 1975, Virginia Durr has 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 I) of the Virginia Foster Durr Papers. For additional information, see the overall collection record Virginia Foster Durr Papers, 1919-1991 (inclusive).".
- catalog description "Virginia Foster Durr Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog extent "1 linear ft.".
- catalog isPartOf "Papers, 1919-1991.".
- catalog issued "1919".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Papers, 1919-1991.".
- catalog subject "Abt, John J.".
- catalog subject "Aronson, James.".
- catalog subject "Baez, Joan, 1913-".
- catalog subject "Beecher, John, 1904-1980.".
- catalog subject "Belfrage, Cedric, 1904-1990.".
- catalog subject "Black, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Seay)".
- catalog subject "Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971.".
- catalog subject "Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972.".
- catalog subject "Bond, Julian, 1940-".
- catalog subject "Boudin, Kathy.".
- catalog subject "Boudin, Leonard, 1912-".
- catalog subject "Braden, Anne, 1924-2006.".
- catalog subject "Brecher, Jeremy.".
- catalog subject "Bredsdorff, Elias.".
- catalog subject "Buchwald, Art.".
- catalog subject "Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987.".
- catalog subject "Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987.".
- catalog subject "Colan, Lulah Durr, 1947-".
- catalog subject "Crouch, Paul.".
- catalog subject "Doar, John, 1921-".
- catalog subject "Dobbs, Mattiwilda.".
- catalog subject "Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983.".
- catalog subject "Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975.".
- catalog subject "Durr, Virginia Foster, 1939-".
- catalog subject "Durr, Virginia Foster.".
- catalog subject "Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, Lois.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkinson), 1907-1991.".
- catalog subject "Emerson, Ruth.".
- catalog subject "Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991.".
- catalog subject "Faulk, John Henry.".
- catalog subject "Foreman, Clark, 1902-1977.".
- catalog subject "Foreman, Mairi.".
- catalog subject "Forman, James, 1928-2005.".
- catalog subject "Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.".
- catalog subject "Frazier, Edward Franklin.".
- catalog subject "Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.".
- catalog subject "Garwood, St. John.".
- catalog subject "Geismar, Maxwell David, 1909-".
- catalog subject "Gomillion, Charles G. (Charles Goode), 1900-".
- catalog subject "Hackney, Lucy Durr, 1937-".
- catalog subject "Hackney, Sheldon.".
- catalog subject "Hiss, Alger.".
- catalog subject "Holt, Wythe, 1942-".
- catalog subject "Horton, Myles, 1905-1990.".
- catalog subject "Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.".
- catalog subject "Jemison, Marie Stokes.".
- catalog subject "Jennings, Perry.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.".
- catalog subject "Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-".
- catalog subject "Kindleberger, Charles Poor, 1910-2003.".
- catalog subject "King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.".
- catalog subject "King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.".
- catalog subject "Lamb, Helen Boyden.".
- catalog subject "Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995.".
- catalog subject "Lester of Herne Hill, Anthony Paul Lester, Baron, 1936-".
- catalog subject "Luscomb, Florence, 1887-".
- catalog subject "Lyon, Ann Durr, 1927-".
- catalog title "Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).".