Freedom writer: Virginia Foster Durr, letters from the civil rights years

Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-454

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References (98)

1. Hollinger Barnard, ed., Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (University: University of Alabama Press, 1985), 279-80;
2. Virginia "Tilla" Durr interview with author, January 5, 2003.
3. Virginia Foster, "The Emancipation of Pure, White, Southern Womanhood," New South 26 (1971), 51. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 5.
4. Barnard, ed., Outside the Magic Circle, 41.
5. Virginia Foster, "The Emancipation of Pure White Southern Womanhood," 54.
6. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 63-65.
7. Alger Hiss, quoted in Katie Loucheim, The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 237.
8. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 102-3.
9. Outside the Magic Circle, 103-4. For biographical information on Clark Foreman
10. Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 25-40.
11. Virginia Durr to Marge Frantz, April 15, 1982, Marge Frantz Papers, private collection.
12. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 108.
13. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 108-111.
14. See Jerold Auerbach, Labor and Liberty: The La Follette Committee and the New Deal (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966), 131-140.
15. Sullivan, Days of Hope, 98-100
16. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 121-22.
17. Virginia Durr to C.Vann Woodward, Jan. 26, 1940, C.Vann Woodward Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, Box 1.
18. Sullivan, Days of Hope, 115-16.
19. Jessica Mitford, Daughters and Rebels: The Autobiography of Jessica Mitford (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 254-55, 257.
20. Jessica Mitford, A Fine Old Conflict (New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1977), 24.
21. Catherine A.Galbraith, "Virginia and Decca," unpublished essay; Catherine Galbraith interview with author, December, 2001.
22. Mitford, A Fine Old Conflict, 24;
23. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 57-58.
24. "A Fighting Liberal," New Republic, Dec. 25, 1944;
25. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 72-97.
26. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 98-116.
27. M.J.Heale, American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) 123-29;
28. Charles Houston, Baltimore Afro-American, April 12, 1947, May 3, 1947.
29. Arthur Schlesinger, "The U.S. Communist Party," Life, July 29, 1946, 84-85, 87, 90;
30. Steven Gillon, Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 16-24.
31. Henry Steele Commager, "Washington Witch-Hunt," Nation, April 5, 1947, 385-88;
32. Richard M.Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-1948 (New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1972), 130-50.
33. "Dissenting Views of Commissioner Clifford J.Durr Re Proposed Rules Governing FCCLoyalty Procedure," undated memorandum, VFD Papers.
34. Sullivan, Days of Hope, 240-43.
35. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 196-99;
36. Nancy Marie Kucan, "A Faint Voice of Protest: The Virginia Progressive Party Campaign and the 1948 Election," senior thesis, William and Mary College, 1981.
37. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 196-97;
38. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 123-26.
39. Clement Imhoff, "Clifford Durr and the Loyalty Question, 1942-1950," Journal of American Culture (Fall 1989), 52;
40. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 121-22;
41. Clifford Durr, "How to Measure Loyalty," Nation, April 23, 1949, 470-73.
42. The case of the former Justice Department employee refers to the Judith Coplan case. Salmond, Conscience of a Lawyer, 135-39;
43. Kenneth O'Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), 130-40.
44. Mills Thornton, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002), 20-37.
45. "As Clifford J.Durr Views Washington," Montgomery Advertiser, October 14, 1951, C-3.
46. "Southern Negro: 1952: A Special Issue," Nation, September 27, 1952.
47. "Montgomerian Who Headed Lawyer Guild Says Group Fought McCarthy Methods," Montgomery Advertiser, August 30, 1953.
48. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 271.
49. See Mitford, A Fine Old Conflict, 42-75, 98-138, 205-217.
50. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 271.
51. Corliss Lamont, Yes to Life: Memoirs of Corliss Lamont (New York: Horizon Press, 1981), 137-38.
52. Robert J.Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (New York: Alfred A.Knopf), 1985, 73-75, 87-88.
53. Fred Gray, Clifford Durr Memorial Lecture, Auburn University, Montgomery, March 1, 1992.
54. Thornton, Dividing Lines, 96.
55. "The Southern Manifesto," March 12, 1956, reprinted in Waldo E.Martin, Jr., ed. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998), 220-23.
56. Montgomery Advertiser, June 21, 1957, 4A.
57. Montgomery Advertiser, June 15, 1957, 4A;
58. Dan T.Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 94-96;
59. Montgomery Advertiser, Jan. 20, 1959, 1.
60. Quoted in Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 104.
61. Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 8, 1957, 2B.
62. "Tilla" Durr, January 14, 2003 interview with author. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 245.
63. Quoted by Dan Wakefield, "Eye of the Storm: Report from the South," Nation, May 7,1960, 397.
64. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind, 123-24.
65. Sarah Patton Boyle, "Spit in the Devil's Eye," Nation, Oct. 20, 1956, 327-29;
66. Marge Frantz, "We Did Overcome: The Death of the Company Town and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee," Paul Lubow Memorial Lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 16, 1989,18-19;
67. Cedric Belfrage, The American Inquisition, 1945-1960 (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), 270.
68. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind, 89-92;
69. Montgomery Advertiser, June 4, 1957, 1.
70. Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (New York: Summit, 1987), 56-57;
71. Eric von Schmidt and Jim Rooney, Baby Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the CambridgeFolk Years (New York: Anchor, 1979), 64-65, 106-7.
72. Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 220-21.
73. Catherine Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 72, 84-102, 192, 206, 220-22.
74. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 204-5.
75. Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), 247-50.
76. Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), 148-49.
77. Montgomery Advertiser, May 7, 1961.
78. Jonathon Steele, "Stopping off at the Durrs," tribute written for Virginia Durr's ninetieth birthday; Robert Cassen to author, Oct. 13, 2002.
79. Studs Terkel, interview with Clifford and Virginia Durr, November 1965, Chicago Historical Society.
80. Barnard, Outside the Magic Circle, 297-98.
81. Montgomery Advertiser, May 23, 1961, 4A.
82. Jessica Mitford, "The Longest Meeting," unpublished ms.
83. Fosl, Subversive Southerner, 275-76.
84. "JFK Told Progress of Negro Good," Montgomery Advertiser, February 13, 1963, 2A.
85. Abel A.Bartley, Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics and Social Development in Jacksonville (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 2000), 110-12.
86. Anthony Lester, Justice in the American South, Amnesty International.
87. New York Times, June 29, 1964, 1;
88. George C.Herring, America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979), 117-23.
89. Quoted in Roger Newman, Hugo Black: A Biography, (New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1994), 548.
90. Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 247-49.
91. Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 159-61, 401-410.
92. David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: William Morrow, 1986), 429-30.
93. Studs Terkel, interview with Virginia Durr, November 1965.
94. Susan Youngblood Ashmore, "Carry it On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1970," Ph.D. dissertation, Auburn University, 1999, 410-26.
95. Dan Carter, The Politics of Rage, 287.
96. Ashmore, "Carry it On," 410-16.
97. For William Styron on Virginia Durr, see "The Women We Love," Esquire, June 1987.
98. "To Be Young, Southern and Liberal," New York Times, Nov. 21, 1985.