Walter J. Brown Papers A Register ; bulk

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1 Walter J. Brown Papers A Register ; bulk CREATOR: Brown, Walter J. COLLECTION NUMBER: Mss 243 TITLE: Walter J. Brown Papers, ; bulk QUANTITY: cubic feet consisting of 903 folders, 6 index card boxes, 57 volumes, 1,500 photographs, 6 oversize photographs, 37 slides, 18 sound discs, 22 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 5 audio cassette tapes, 5 rolls of microfilm, 153 oversize items, 24 8-inch computer discs, and 53 artifacts. ABSTRACT: The Walter J. Brown Papers document his career as a reporter, Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion during World War II, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, and owner of Spartan Communications (especially WSPA-Radio and WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, SC). There is also material relating to his personal life, particularly his interest in the Hickory Hill estate of Tom Watson; his involvement in politics, particularly with James F. Byrnes, J. Thomas Heflin, Burnet Maybank, Donald Russell, and Strom Thurmond; his role in the economic development of Spartanburg, SC; and the writing of his two books, J. J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson Georgia Politics and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina: A Remembrance. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Walter J. Brown Papers consists of advertisements, articles, artifacts, audio-visual materials, campaign materials, cartoons, clippings, correspondence, a day book, editorials, executive orders, galley proofs, journals, laws and legal documents, a ledger, legislative bills, lists, maps, minutes, petitions, postcards, photographs, publications, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, telegrams, transcripts, and other items. Materials in this collection cover the period , with the bulk of the papers dating from The papers are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Artifacts, photographs and oversize items have been removed to artifacts, photographs and oversize storage. Publications by Tom Watson have been cataloged and put in the book collection. The Walter J. Brown Papers document his media career in and his government service with the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion during World War II and with the U.S. Department of State. There is also material relating to his personal life; his interest 1

2 and involvement in politics; his role in the economic development of Spartanburg, SC; and the writing of his two books on J. J. Brown/Tom Watson and James F. Byrnes. Of particular interest to researchers are the journals Brown kept between April 1943 and November They include information on the day-to-day activities the State Department and of OWMR, including economic statistics such as the costs of various products; politics, especially the potential vice presidential candidacy of James F. Byrnes in 1944; and the London and Potsdam Conferences. The latter are supplemented by notes taken at both conferences filed with the journals and journal extracts in folders relating to Byrnes. There are also two sets of transcripts, denoted as A and B, that were probably created in the 1970 s or early 1980 s. These are less word-for-word transcriptions of the journals than re-workings of them, probably for use in James F. Byrnes of South Carolina: A Remembrance. Transcript B tends to be a little more detailed than transcript A. The materials concerning his books J. J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson Georgia Politics and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina: A Remembrance include both research material and, in the case of James F. Byrnes, material resulting from their work together and their long friendship. There is a good deal of correspondence between Brown and Byrnes in the collection and numerous files relating to Byrnes career. The State Department-related files include those for the London and Potsdam Conferences, which have the journal extracts alluded to above. Material relating to his father J. J. Brown includes the 1923 Report of Special Committee Investigating the Dept. of Ag. and J. J. Brown, while that for U.S. Congressman and Senator Tom Watson includes material on his publishing company (including a day book); copies of The Jeffersonian for 1915 and 1917 on the Leo Frank case, anti-catholicism, and opposition to American entry into World War I; and the report of his 1916 trial on obscenity charges. There is also correspondence concerning the his research and to the publication of the two books, galleys (circa 1992) for the Byrnes book, a 1986 manuscript for the Brown/Watson book, a 1982 manuscript that contains both books, and computer discs for the 1986 versions of both books. Related to Brown s interest in Watson was his interest in Brown s home, Hickory Hill and by extension the town of Thomson, Georgia. There is correspondence concerning the possibility of Brown renting Hickory Hill and his successful 1947 purchase of the property. Additional correspondence deals with the running of the Hickory Hill dairy and farms, while other material concerns its eventual designation as a historic site. He was also worked for, and was interested in, the career of Alabama politician J. Thomas Heflin. Brown helped arrange Heflin s lecture tours, although almost all of the correspondence in the collection is to and from Heflin s secretary, J. L. Thornton. The papers contain posters and other advertisements for Heflin s lecture tours. Brown also reported on J. Thomas Heflin s 1930 Senate campaign and in addition to his stories there are copies of campaign advertisements and issues of a local newspaper, the Abbeville (Alabama) Independent. A small amount of research material on Heflin can be found in the collection as well. 2

3 There is extensive documentation of Brown s interest and involvement in politics in the papers. In addition to political correspondence files and others relating to elections. political figures, and presidential inaugurations, there are materials relating to political party conventions Brown attended, especially the Democratic National Conventions of 1944, 1948, 1956, 1976, and 1988 and the Republican National Conventions of 1976 and There is little that documents the election of 1960, however. Brown also acted as a public relations consultant to Burnet Maybank s 1941 Senatorial campaign; Strom Thurmond s 1948 Presidential campaign and his 1950 and 1954 Senatorial campaigns; and Donald Russell s 1958 gubernatorial campaign. All of these campaigns are fully documented in the collection. Brown was involved in opposing the relocation I-85 around Spartanburg in the 1980 s because he was convinced it would have a detrimental economic impact on the city. The collection reflects his efforts to prevent the relocation, containing correspondence with U.S. Congressman Carroll Campbell (4 th District), U.S. Senators Ernest Hollings and Strom Thurmond, the State Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, and others. Other materials relating to this topic include engineering reports, maps, and photographs. A few files document his participation in the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce and other economic development efforts. There are also a small number of items relating to Spartan Communications and WSPA, including some material that may have been used to help write his on-air editorials as well as files concerning his term as president of the South Carolina Broadcasting Association. A number of letters in the collection refer to the long legal fight to build a broadcasting tower on Hogback Mountain for WSPA. Brown visited to various countries in Asia, the Caribbean Europe, and North and South America and the papers contain brochures, correspondence, itineraries, maps, and other items relating to his travel. Also included are editorials on some of the places he visited. Those relating to his visit to the Soviet Union in 1969 became the article A Visit Behind the Iron Curtain, which is also in the collection. The collection contains a number of scrapbooks, which have a card file index. They include articles by Brown and his Around Washington and Sense and Nonsense Along the Potomac columns, as well as covering such topics as anti-catholicism, especially in regard to public schools; James F. Byrnes; civil rights and segregation; Georgia politics; J. Thomas Heflin; Burnet R. Maybank; national politics, especially the 1948 presidential campaign; OWMR and the war effort; Donald Russell s 1958 gubernatorial campaign; prominent South Carolinians in Washington, D.C., including Leonore Fuller, Byrnes sister; South Carolina politics; and Strom Thurmond s 1954 write-in campaign for the Senate. One of the scrapbooks appears to have also served as a ledger book for Tom Watson s Jeffersonian Publishing Company. The photographs in the papers are chiefly of Brown, his family and the Watson family, James F. Byrnes, Hickory Hill, I-85 between Atlanta, GA and Spartanburg, SC and those 3

4 taken during the Potsdam Conference. There are also photographs of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as well as historic photographs and postcards of Thomson, GA. Other audio-visual materials include sound recordings of political advertisements, political commentary, and of eulogies given at the funeral of James F. Byrnes. Finally, there a number of artifacts such as German coins, convention delegate badges and press credentials, a patch, a plaque, political buttons, tokens, and small pieces of rubble from Berchtesgaden, Germany in the collection. Other correspondents or other authors represented in the collection include Turner Catledge, executive editor of the New York Times; lawyers Robert Figg and C. C. Wyche; journalist Porter McKeever; businessman Roger Peace; and Richard B. Russell, Jr., U.S. Senator from Georgia. There is also correspondence with members of the Brown family, especially with his father, John Judson Brown and his brother Sylvester V. Brown. The bulk of the material relating to Spartan Communications and other media-related enterprises is at the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives is at the University of Georgia. ADDITIONAL COLLECTION INFORMATION: Cite as: [description of item such as Letter from John Smith, Clemson, SC to Michael Jones, Columbia, SC ], box number, folder number, Mss 243, Walter J. Brown Papers, Special Collections, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, SC. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Walter Johnson Brown was born on July 25, 1903 in Bowman, Georgia, the son of J. J. (John Judson) ( ) and Captora Ginn Brown ( ). He was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology High School, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. On April 12, 1925 he married Georgia Watson Lee (died 1935), a granddaughter of Thomas E. Watson. They had one son, Thomas Watson Brown ( ). He then married Ruth Taylor ( ), the daughter of Spartanburg Advertising Company President Alfred Brandon Taylor and Ruth King Taylor, on July 3, They divorced in 1966 after having one son, James Byrnes Brown (born 1947). In 1970 he married Ann Revell Chadeayne Tindale. He worked for his father in the Georgia Department of Agriculture from 1925 until 1927, when he and his wife moved to Thomson, Georgia and started a mail-order book business and a monthly publication called The Watsonian. He also helped arrange lecture tours for Senator Thomas Heflin of Alabama and reported on the Senator's unsuccessful 1930 reelection campaign. After covering the 1928 presidential campaign for James S. Vance's Washington, D.C.-based The Fellowship Forum Brown moved to Washington in 1929 to work for Vance. The following year, with some help from Heflin and his friends, he started his own news bureau that served newspapers in North and South Carolina. In the 1930's he began a life-long friendship with James F. Byrnes, then a U.S. Senator. 4

5 In 1940 Brown moved to Spartanburg, SC to become the Vice President and General Manager of the Spartanburg Advertising Company, which owned radio station WORD. Later that same year the Company bought WSPA, which had begun broadcasting in 1930 as the first commercial radio station in South Carolina. He took a leave of absence from the Company in 1943 at the request of James F. Byrnes, who had resigned from the Supreme Court to become director of the Office of Economic Stabilization (which became the Office of War Mobilization and later the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion). He served as Assistant to the Director until April 1945, when he returned to Spartanburg. However, when Byrnes became Secretary of State in July 1945 Brown returned to Washington and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary. He attended the Potsdam Conference and the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in London. Brown resigned from the State Department in November 1945 and returned to Spartanburg and the Spartanburg Advertising Company. Brown organized Georgia-Carolina Broadcasting Company in 1945 and served as its president. The Company operated WTNT in Augusta, Georgia, which began broadcasting in He started the Hickory Hill Broadcasting Company in 1947 and built station WTWA in Thomson. Meanwhile the Spartanburg Advertising Company had been forced to relinquish WORD in 1944 because of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) "duopoly" rule forbidding a company from owning more than one station in a market. The Liberty Life Insurance Company bought WSPA in Brown then organized the Spartan Radiocasting Company and purchased WORD. In 1951 Brown orchestrated a successful campaign to have the FCC assign VHF Channel 7 to Spartanburg. His company then petitioned the FCC for a license to operate WORD- TV. WSPA filed its own competing request. Brown then bought WSPA in The construction of a broadcasting tower on Hogback Mountain for the new television station led to a protracted legal fight with television interests in Anderson and Greenville that was not resolved in WSPA's favor until However, WSPA was able to begin broadcasting in 1956 using a temporary transmitter on Paris Mountain. WSPA-FM radio began broadcasting in stereo in 1961, the first in the Southeast to do so, and WSPA-TV started broadcasting in color in 1965, the first TV station in South Carolina "to originate local color programming." Brown was appointed Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Spartan Radiocasting Company in The business changed its name to Spartan Communications, Inc. in He was a member of the Rotary Club and served as president of the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce and the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. Brown was a trustee of both the Spartanburg County Foundation and Converse College. He was also an leader in the unsuccessful effort to prevent the relocation of Interstate 85 north of the city of Spartanburg in Brown was inducted into the South Carolina Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1975 and was awarded the Neville Holcombe Distinguished Award by the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce in A briefing center at the Chamber of Commerce is named for him. He was the author of two books: J. J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson Georgia Politics (1989) and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina: A Remembrance (1992). 5

6 Walter J. Brown died on November 17, 1995 in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was buried in Thomson, Georgia. Sources: The Legacy, volume 7, Issue 1 (April 2007), pg. 2. Register of the Walter Johnson Brown Papers, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Biographical sketch from 1982 Silver Medal Award brochure from the Advertising Federation of Greenville, Box 30, Folder 1, Mss 243, Walter J. Brown Papers, Special Collections, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, SC. RELATED MATERIALS Mss 90, James F. Byrnes Papers; Collection #00093 John Judson Brown Papers and Collection #00755 Thomas E. Watson Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. SUBJECTS This series is indexed under the following terms in the University Libraries' online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. Please note that these terms suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the headings do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection such as folders or items. Alabama Politics and government Brown family Brown, John Judson, Brown, Walter J. Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), Catledge, Turner, Civil rights United States History Council of Foreign Ministers Democratic National Convention (1944 : Chicago, Ill.) Democratic National Convention (1948 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Democratic National Convention (1956 : Chicago, Ill.) Democratic National Convention (1976 : New York, N.Y.) Democratic National Convention (1988 : Atlanta, Ga.) Frank, Leo, Trials, litigation, etc. Fuller, Leonore B. (Leonore Byrnes), Georgia Politics and government 20 th century Heflin, James Thomas, Historic buildings Georgia McDuffie County 6

7 Industrial mobilization United States History 20th century Interstate 85 (S.C.) Maps Interstate 85 (S.C.) Planning Interstate Highway System South Carolina James F. Byrnes of South Carolina : a remembrance J.J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson : Georgia politics, Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), Portraits Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), Portraits Potsdam Conference (1945) Presidents United States Election 1948 Republican National Convention (1976 : Kansas City, Mo.) Republican National Convention (1988 : New Orleans, La.) Russell, Donald Stuart, Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), Segregation Southern states History 20 th century South Carolina Governors Election 1958 South Carolina Politics and government 20 th century Soviet Union Description and travel Spartan Communications (Firm) Spartanburg (S.C.) Economic conditions Thomson (Ga.) History Thurmond, Strom, Trials Georgia United States. Congress. Senate Elections, 1930 United States. Congress. Senate Elections, 1941 United States. Congress. Senate Elections, 1950 United States. Congress. Senate Elections, 1954 United States Defenses Economic aspects History 20th century United States. Dept. of State History United States Foreign relations United States Foreign relations United States. Office of War Mobilization History United States. Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion History United States Politics and government 20 th century Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), World War, United States World War, Diplomatic history World War, Economic aspects United States World War, Peace CORRESPONDENTS/OTHER AUTHORS Brown family Brown, John Judson, Brown, S. V. (Sylvester V.) 7

8 Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), Campbell, Carroll A. Catledge, Turner, Figg, Robert McC. Heflin, James Thomas, Hollings, Ernest F., Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), McKeever, Porter Peace, Roger C. (Roger Craft), Russell, Donald Stuart, Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), South Carolina. Department of Transportation Thornton, J. L. Thurmond, Strom, United States. Federal Highway Administration Wyche, Charles Cecil, DOCUMENT TYPES Advertisements Articles Artifacts Audiocassettes Audiotapes Bills (legislative records) Computer discs Day book Editorials Galley proofs Journals (accounts) Laws (documents) Ledger Maps Microfilms Minutes Phonograph records Photographs Scrapbooks Speeches Transcripts ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Acquired from: Spartan Communications (WSPA) in accessions and Additional material acquired from Tad Brown in accessions and

9 Processing Information Processing, arrangement, and microfilming of the collection was supervised from by Melissa Finley. James Cross supervised additional processing from James Cross prepared the register in Processing assistance was provided by student assistants Elizabeth Bearfield, Michael Bufano, Swati Deo, Nikki Garnto, Jessica Hart, Jessica Keaton, Venkatesh Seetharam, Amanda Shepard, Brett Sowell, and Sowjanya Syamala. 9

10 Detailed Description 1 1 Alfalfa Club, 1940, Atlanta Fire, Barkley/Harrison Leadership Fight, Berlin, Black, Hugo, Blease, Cole, 1981 Book Materials Commissioner of Agriculture race 8 Book Reception, Atlanta, December 10, Book Reception, Spartanburg, February 11, 1993 (1) 10 Book Reception, Spartanburg, February 11, 1993 (2) 11 Brown, John Judson, Byrnes, James Francis, Chapter Outline, Correspondence, , Folder I 15 Correspondence, , Folder II 16 Correspondence, Correspondence, Editorial Reviews, Correspondence, Arthur Klebanoff, Insertions for Manuscripts, A Book Materials James F. Byrnes of South Carolina: a remembrance. Galleys, ca Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Book Materials 1 J.J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson: Georgia Politics, Book Reception, Book Reception, Correspondence, Manuscript, edited copy, November Manuscript, Psillas copy, Manuscript, Manuscript, 1989 Manuscript,

11 8 Introduction 9 Chapters Book Materials Manuscript, Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Book Materials Manuscript, Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Book Materials Manuscript, Chapter 71 2 Chapter 72 3 Epilogue 4 Notes, Notes, undated 6 Roosevelt Library Materials, Source Material, Washington Bureaucracy, Watson Obscenity Trial, undated 10 World War I, undated 11 Brown Biographical, ca.1982, Brown, John Judson, Brown, J.J. / Talmadge Debate, excerpt from Albert Steinberg s The Bosses, Brown, Sylvester V., Brown, Thomas Watson, (January-May), Brown, Thomas Watson, (June-December), Bryson, Joseph R.,

12 Byrnes, James F. 4 The American, February American Legion Convention, Speech, Greenville, SC, July 4, Anti-Lynching, Atomic Bomb, Biographical Information, Brown, Walter, Resignation from State Department, November Byrnes Boulevard, Byrnes Centennial Committee (Birthday), Byrnes Crossing, Hilton Head, Byrnes, James F., Byrnes, Maude, Death, Byrnes Memorial Highway, Byrnes Scholars, Communications Center, Byrnes, James F. 1 Communiques: 1945 Correspondence (January-August) (September-December) (January-July) (August-December) 8 Byrnes, James F. Correspondence Crisis Government Speech, Biloxi, November 21, Death, April Delta Base World News, November 1944-January Foreign Policy Manual, September

13 16 Governor, Byrnes, James F. 9 Gubernatorial Inauguration, January Committee on Inauguration 2 Correspondence 3 News Clippings 4 Program and Inaugural Address 5 Gubernational Race, Karl, John F., Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 London CFM Meeting 8 Communiqué Committee, September-October London Conference, September-October Report, October Memorial Service, U.S. Supreme Court, News Clippings, Notes, ca Office of Economic Stabilization, Appointment of Walter Brown, March Office of War Information, February 1945 Office of War Mobilization 16 Farm Incomes, Food, Inflation, ca Labor Statistics, Military Production and Procurement, Miscellaneous, Naval Statistics, Plane Production, ca Problems of Mobilization and Reconversion, January 1, 1945 Byrnes, James F. 10 Office of War Mobilization 1 Put That Pistol Down, ca Ship Construction, Spartanburg Speech, May 31, Speeches and Press Releases, Textiles and Clothing, War and Post-War Adjustment Policies, February 15, War Bonds, The Will to Win, Broadcast Speech, August 16, Posthumous, Potsdam 10 Agenda and Documents, July-August Information Bulletin, Tripartite Conference, July 15,

14 12 Minutes, July-August Potsdam: The Iron Curtain, New York Times, August 5, Protocol of Proceedings, July-August Report of the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, August 2, State Department Inquiries for Publications, Presidential Election, President s Message on Foreign Affairs, 1931 Press Conferences 19 # 1-3, June 9-July 21, # 4-6, September 24, 1943-August 4, Byrnes, James F. Press Conferences 1 # 8-10, January 1-March 31, 1945 Press Releases 2 Index, October April May June- July August- September October November December January February March- April May June Byrnes, James F. Press Releases 1 July- August September October November- December January January February March Byrnes Resignation- March 31, Byrnes Resignation, Secretary of State- January Sandlapper on JFB, January Secretary of State,

15 13 Byrnes, James F. 1 Senate, undated Senate Campaign 3 Senate Re-election Campaign, Byrne s Book: Speaking Frankly, Stuttgart Speech, September 6, Supreme Court, Byrnes/Truman Some Written Material, U.S. News and World Report, The Supreme Court Must Be Curbed, May, Vice President, Vice President, White House Years, WSPA, Yalta Conference, February Campaign Issues, Senatorial, Catholicism, Catledge, Turner Catledge, Turner Child Labor Law, Clay, Lucius, Clemson University, Clemson, University, Coleman Jr., Robert, Commerce Department-Willard Thorp, Congressional Directory, December 2, Congressional Record, Congressional Record, Congressional Record, Congressional Record, Congressional Record, Russell s death, January Congressional Record, April 10, Congressional Record, May 17, Congressional Record, May 23,

16 8 Congressional Record, August Controllers Strike, Cooke, H. Kemper, Coolidge, Calvin, undated 12 Copyright, 1981 Correspondence, A 14 B 15 B 16 Correspondence, C 2 C 3 D 4 E 5 F 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I, J, K 10 L 11 M 17 Correspondence, N 2 O 3 P 4 Q, R 5 S 6 S 7 T 8 T 9 U, V, W, X, Y, Z 10 U, V, W, X, Y, Z 11 Correspondence, Correspondence, Family, Correspondence, Personal, Correspondence, White House Years, Cotton Prices, undated 5 Crime and Punishment, Crustbreakers Talk, Daniel, Senator Charles E., Dent, Harry S., Discrimination,

17 Dorn, William Jennings Bryan Dinner, September 20, 1974, Douglas, William O., Economy and Employment, FCC Communications, Health, and Industry, Figg, Robert M., Jr , Figg, Robert M., Jr. 1 Interview Transcript, c Fleming, Horace, Foreign Policy, Frank, Leo, Freedom, Press, Freedom, Religious, Gardner, Honorable O. Max, Garner, Jack, undated 9 George, Walter F., Senator, Goldstein, Nat (Personal), Government, Governors Conference, June 19-22, Governors Conference, Greenville News, Greenville News, Greenville News, Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, Hanegan, Robert E., ca Heflin, Thomas J. 4 Abbeville Independent, Correspondence B, C-E,

18 8 F-H, J-S, J-S, Heflin, Thomas J. Correspondence 1 M-R, T-W, (Walter Brown) Correspondence, Lectures Lectures, Arkansas, Lectures, Arkansas, Lectures, Louisiana, Heflin, Thomas J. Correspondence, Lectures and Speeches, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Correspondence, Speeches, U.S. Senate, Heflin / Moses Controversy, Heflin Papers, Lecture Dates Accepted and Closed (Delivered), April 16-October 1, Heflin, Thomas J. 1 Lecture Dates Accepted and Closed (Delivered), April 16-October 1, Lecture Dates Accepted and Closed (Delivered), April 16-October 1, Lecture Dates, Fall Season, Lecture Dates, Fall Season, Closed, Lecture Dates, Fall Season, Closed, Lecture Materials, , undated 7 Letters of Recommendation,

19 8 Mailing Lists, Heflin, Thomas J. 1 Notes, 1930-ca Heflin Public School Bill, 1926 Senate Campaign, Articles by Walter Brown 4 Articles by Walter Brown, 1930 Campaign 5 Articles by Walter Brown, undated 6 Campaign Material 7 Correspondence 26 Heflin, Thomas J. Senate Campaign, Correspondence 2 Ship Building Legislation, Speeches in the U.S. Senate, Hickory Hill Dairy, Farms, Historical Materials, 1929, 1942, Hollings, Ernest, undated 3 Hoover Administration, 1933, Political: Al Kerchman Long, Huey: Stories, , undated 6 Journalist Papers, , undated 7 Johnston, Olin D., Integration, Racial, Kennedy, Senator Edward, Kiwanis Club, February 4, Lynching, MacArthur s Address to Congress, The Market Bulletin, Marriage and Politics, 1949, 1985 Maybank, Burnet 15 Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence,

20 28 Maybank, Burnet 1 Correspondence, Governor, Newspaper Clippings, Recommendations, Reports, speeches, and statements, and undated 6 Research materials for 1941 and 1942 Senate campaigns, 1939, Senate Campaign-Primary Senate Campaign Primary, speeches Senate Campaign, Runoff-Pardons and leaves of absence Runoff with Johnston 29 Maybank, Burnet 1 Senate Campaign Newspaper Clippings 3 Speeches and Miscellaneous 4 Senate Campaign, Reelection, South Carolina Projects and Developments, Speech, July 14, 1942 McCullough, Alex and prior McKeever, Porter South Dakota 10 Columns 11 Other 12 Medlock, Travis, Miscellaneous, 1930, , 1949, 1979, 1982, 1984, , undated 2 Miscellaneous: Programs and Invitations, 1939, 1943, 1958, Missouri Trip, Money, Transportation, and Editorial Material, Morgenthau Jr., Henry, Mitchell, M. S./Brown, Transcript of Conversation, September 15, National Labor Relations Board, National Planning Association, Neutrality Legislation, New Campaign Finance Law, News Clippings, North Carolina Congressmen, (Doughton, Bailey, Reynolds), Olive, Hubert, Peace, Roger,

21 15 Poems and Useful Books, A List of, May 26, 1932 Political Conventions 16 Miscellaneous, 1952, 1960, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Republican National Convention, Cleveland, OH, Democratic (SC), Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, Republican National Convention, Chicago, IL, Political Conventions 1 Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, July Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Democratic (SC), Political Conventions, 1956, Media Credentials 5 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, Democratic National Convention, 1956, Civil Rights 7 Democratic National Convention, 1956, Correspondence 8 Democratic National Convention, 1956, Miscellaneous 9 Democratic National Convention, 1956, Press Releases 10 Democratic National Convention, 1956, Press Reports (Brown) 11 Democratic National Convention, 1956, Propaganda 12 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, Political Conventions 1 Democratic Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, Republican National Convention, San Francisco, CA, July 13-16, Democratic Convention, Chicago, IL, Democratic Convention, Chicago, IL, Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Political Conventions 1 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Community Control of Broadcasting 4 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Travel Information 5 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, Biographies and Platform 21

22 7 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, FL, 1972 Program 34 Political Conventions 1 Democratic National Convention, New York, NY, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, MO, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, MO, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, MO, CBS News Handbook 5 Democratic National Convention, New York, NY, Democratic National Convention, New York, NY, Political Conventions 1 Republican National Convention, Detroit, MI, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, CA, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, CA, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, CA, Newspaper Clippings 5 Republican Convention, Dallas, TX, Republican Convention, Dallas, TX, Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, July Chamber of Commerce Presentation 8 Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, July Convention Publications 36 Political Conventions 1 Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1988 Media/Press Content 2 Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1988 Newspaper Clippings, July 11-18, Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1988 Newspaper Clippings, July 19-25, Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1988 Notes 5 Republican National Convention, New Orleans, LA, Republican National Convention, New Orleans, LA, Newspaper Clippings from New York Times 7 Republican National Convention, New Orleans, LA, Newspaper Clippings from Times-Picayune 8 Republican National Convention, New Orleans, LA, 1988 Notes 37 Politics January-June July-December , Thurmond resignation 22

23 Politics January-May June-December Rogers Bill Politics January-July August-December January-June Politics 1 July-November January-June Politics 1 July-November Presidential Elections Democrats 23

24 Republicans Newspaper Clippings Presidential Elections , Jimmy Carter 4 Politics and Politicians, 1982 Presidential Inauguration , Harry Truman , Dwight Eisenhower , Richard Nixon , Richard Nixon , Jimmy Carter , Jimmy Carter Correspondence 43 Presidential Inauguration , Ronald Reagan 2 Presidents (FDR, HST, LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan), 1939, , 1964, 1968, President s Trip to the Berlin Conference, July 6-August 7, Purge, Radio, 1968, 1982, Radio Reception, February 16, Reagan Budget, Relocation of I-85 8 Anderson, W. Sterling, April 18, Barnhart, R. A., Federal Highway Administrator, June 10-July 22, Brown, Walter, Statement to Highway Department, July 25, Carstarphen, W. H., Spartanburg City Manager, April 14, Chronology, Cobb, Paul W., Chief Commissioner, May 31-June 15, Committee to Save I-85, October 1983-December Correspondence, Correspondence, Relocation of I-85 1 Covington and Burling, April 1983-July Dole, Elizabeth, Petition from City, September 20-22, Environment Impact Statement, Draft, May 16, Environment Impact Statement, Final, December 8, Federal Government, Figg, Robert McC., August 1983-February

25 7 I-85 Hearings, June-November Keep Spartanburg Alive: Widen I-85, June Maps, ca Miller, Lewis, Statement, June 30, Minority Report, ca Relocation of I-85 1 Miscellaneous, 1979, News Clippings and Correspondence, Post, Buckley, Schuh, and Jernigan, Inc., September 1982-May Property Owners I-85, Ragin/Davenport/Brown letters, April-May Ragin/Davenport/Brown letters, Notes, April-May Relocation Impact Study Reports, September 1982-May Riley, Richard W., Governor, July-September Snyder, Herman P., July 13-August 2, Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, Spartanburg, City and County, Spartanburg City Council, Minutes, April 5, SPATS Committee, May 1983-September State Government, April 1983-June Relocation of I-85 1 State Highway Department, Stoddard, Robert L., and Neville Holcombe, May 19-25, St. Paul / St. Louis Corridor Study, July Summary of Arguments, ca Walsh, T. E., Spartanburg City Attorney, ca Wilbur Smith and Associates, April 1982-May Widening, October 1982-February Winston-Salem [North Carolina], 1983 Report of Special Committee Investigating the Department of Agriculture and J. J. Brown, pp pp pp pp Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1951, 1967, Roosevelt, Franklin D., Russell, Donald Media, March 25

26 Media, April-June , Speeches, Race for Governorship , Speeches, Race for Governorship , Speeches, Race for Governorship Inauguration Confidential Correspondence, Russell, Richard B Russell Dam, Senate Race, Russia and the Cold War, Santee Cooper Project, Securities, Italian, Senate Joint Resolution 175, 1968 Sims, Edward , Personal, Smith, Cotton Ed Ellison D., , South Carolina Broadcasting, South Carolina Broadcasting, South Carolina Democratic Convention, May 19, South Carolina Democratic Convention Resolution on White Supremacy, South Carolina Political Campaign, Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce Neville Holcombe Award, Southern Governor s Conference, State Champion Program, State Department, State Department Bulletin 10 Volume XII, January-February State Department Bulletin 1 Volume XII, March Volume XII, April Volume XII, May-June Volume XIII, July-September Volume XIII, September-December Volumes XIV and XV, June-September

27 51 State Department Bulletin 1 Volumes XIV and XV, September-November Volumes XIV and XV, November-December 1946 and Index 3 Volumes XIV and XV, February-April Volume XVI, May Volume XVI, June State Highway Department, 1979, States Rights Democratic Conference, Jackson, Mississippi, May 10, States Rights Democratic National Convention, Houston, August Super Bowl, Supreme Court Controversy, Supreme Court Editorials, 1969, Symington, Stuart, Talmadge Book, by William Anderson, 1942, Taxes, James Byrnes Brown, Teasley, Edgar and Harold, Thurmond, Strom 4 Biographical Info, 1946 Correspondence June July-December States Rights Thurmond, Strom Correspondence

28 Box Folder Title 54 Thurmond, Strom Correspondence Portrait, January-July Thurmond, Strom Correspondence 1 August-December Thurmond Institute 3 Governor, Gubernatorial Campaign, Gubernatorial Campaign, 1946 Speeches Presidential Campaign, Articles and Clippings 7 Research Materials, 1948 and undated 8 Research Materials, , Speech Materials 56 Thurmond, Strom Presidential Campaign, Speeches, pre-campaign, Speeches Senatorial Campaign, Accomplishments as Governor 4 Correspondence, Farm/Cottonseed Issue 6 Gubernatorial Campaign (Byrnes), Johnston, Olin, Newspaper Clippings 9 Newspaper Clippings Thurmond Record 10 Research Materials, 1950 and undated 28

29 57 Thurmond, Strom Senatorial Campaign, Speech Materials, Speeches May June-July Undated Excerpts #1 5 Undated Excerpts #2 6 Voting Senate Campaign, Edgar Brown Material 8 Campaign Materials 9 Clippings 10 Correspondence 11 Research Material, Thurmond, Strom Senate Campaign, Write-in Speeches 2 Senate Campaign, Senate Campaign, Quotes Speeches, Speeches, Thurmond Center Proposal, Clemson University, Time Magazine, October 11, Timmerman, George Bell Jr Travel 2 Linbald Travel, Inc., Pan American Airlines Percival Tours, Inc., Sanders Travel Agency, Asia 6 China, Hong Kong, 1970 Japan, General 9 Kyoto 10 Osaka, Osaka, Textiles 13 Tokyo,

30 Caribbean Bahamas 14 Eleuthera, Eleuthera, Cruise, February Travel Caribbean 1 Barbados, 1985; Panama Canal, ; Cancelled Travel, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Jamaica, Jamaica, Montego Bay, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Caribbean Cruise, Puerto Rico, 1977 Europe 8 Capitals of Europe Cruise, 1988 Denmark , Copenhagen, England and London Conference Memorabilia, England and Scotland, Travel Europe , Germany, Berlin, and Munich, 1963, Germany, Berlin, and Munich, Holland, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Rome, Norway, 1965, Norway, Scandinavian Trip, 1978 Russia Film Talks Travel Europe Russia 1 Moscow, Moscow,

31 3 Spain, Madrid, 1965, , 1973, Sweden, 1967 North America Canada , Montreal, Expo 1967 #1 7 Montreal, Expo 1967 #2 Mexico Travel North America Mexico , 1980 United States 3 Alaska, Alaska, Colorado, California, ca Hawaii, Honolulu, 1970 South America 7 Cruise, National Newspaper Association study, Truman, Harry, Newspaper clippings and excerpts from The best years 45-50, 1976, University of Georgia Notes, Vietnam PFC Mark s Letters, A Visit Behind the Iron Curtain, 1969 Voting Machines Voting Rights, Wage/Hour Flight, War Chronology, 1944, War Department Surplus Property, World War I, Waring, Judge J. Waties, undated Washington Correspondence , 1966, 1974, and undated Watson, Thomas E. 9 Birthplace Dedication, 1972, Book Company 31

32 Day Book, Watson, Thomas E. 1 Correspondence, 1900, 1907, 1916, Obscenity Trial, 1915, Papers, University of North Carolina, 1947, 1980, Research Material, , , 1983, and undated 5 Rural Free Delivery, 1927, 1946 Trial Report: U.S. vs. Thomas E. Watson, November pp pp pp pp Watson, Thomas E. Trial Report: U.S. vs. Thomas E. Watson, November pp University of North Carolina Southern Broadcast Archives, Wismer, Harry, Wofford, Thomas A., Wyche, Judge C. C., Yost, Charles W., Journals 1 April 1943-April April 1-October 1, October 1, 1944-January 1, January 1-April 5, July 3-September 19, September 20-November 24, 1945 Transcripts Draft A 7 1 through I 9 8 II 10 9 I 11 9 II 12 9 III I II 32

33 68 Journals Transcripts Draft B I 4 3 II 5 3 III 6 4 I 7 4 II 8 5 I 9 5 II I II III 17 Notes on Potsdam, July 3-September 5, Notes on London Conference, September 12-30, 1945 Scrapbooks The scrapbooks are listed by microfilm roll. The number before each title indicates the volume number of the scrapbook while the information in square brackets ( [ ] ) following the title identifies the box the scrapbook is stored in. Most, but not all, of the scrapbooks had their pages numbered consecutively; pages appear to be missing. There is a card file subject index to the scrapbooks which is at the end of the scrapbook list. Roll , Book A, pp [Scrapbooks Box 1] 2. Pre-1933, Book B, pp [Scrapbooks Box 1] 3. Pre-1933, Book C, pp [Scrapbooks Box 1] 4. October-December 1934, 1936 National Political Convention, Book D, pp [Scrapbooks Box 2] 5. January-June 1935, Book E, pp [Scrapbooks Box 2] 6. July-November 1935, Book F, pp [Scrapbooks Box 2] 7. December 1935-January 1936, Book G, pp [Scrapbooks Box 2] 8. February-March 1936, Book H, pp [Scrapbooks Box 2] 9. March-April 1936, Book I, pp [Scrapbooks Box 3] 10. May-June 1936, Book J, pp [Scrapbooks Box 3] 11. July-September 1936, Book K, pp [Scrapbooks Box 3] 12. September-December 1936, Book L, pp [Scrapbooks Box 3] 13. December 1936-February 1937, Book M, pp [Scrapbooks Box 4] 14. March-May 1937, Book N, pp [Scrapbooks Box 4] 15. May-July 1937, Book O, pp [Scrapbooks Box 4] 33

34 Roll July-August 1937, Book P, pp [Scrapbooks Box 4] 17. September-December 1937, Book R, pp [Scrapbooks Box 5] 18. January-February 1938, Book S, pp [Scrapbooks Box 5] 19. March-April 1938, Book T, pp [Scrapbooks Box 5] 20. May-September 1938, Book U, pp [Scrapbooks Box 6] 21. October 1938-January 1939, Book V, pp [Scrapbooks Box 6] 22. January-February 1939, Book W, pp [Scrapbooks Box 6] 23. March-April 1939, Book X, pp [Scrapbooks Box 7] 24. May-June 1939, Book Y, pp [Scrapbooks Box 7] 25. July-September 1939, Book Z, pp [Scrapbooks Box 7] 26. October 1939-January 1940, pp [Scrapbooks Box 8] Roll February-April 1940, pp [Scrapbooks Box 8] 28. April-July 1940, pp [Scrapbooks Box 9] 29. July-September 1940, pp [Scrapbooks Box 9] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 9] 31. May 1954-Apr 1956, pp [Scrapbooks Box 9] 32. April-June 1958, pp [Scrapbooks Box 17] 33. Circa 1936, Palmetto State Citizens in the Nation s Capitol, pp [Scrapbooks Box 10] 34. January-June 1929, pp [Scrapbooks Box 17] 35. May-December 1928, pp [Scrapbooks Box 10] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 10] Roll March-April 1931, pp [Scrapbooks Box 10] 38. Pre-1932, pp [Scrapbooks Box 11] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 11] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 12] 41. December 1943, pp [Scrapbooks Box 12] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 12] 43. June 1944-March 1945, pp [Scrapbooks Box 13] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 13] , pp [Scrapbooks Box 17] 46. April 1940-August 1941 [Scrapbooks Box 14] [Scrapbooks Box 15] Roll [Scrapbooks Box 15] 49. August 1954-July 1959 [Scrapbooks Box 16] [Scrapbooks Box 16] 51. Clippings/Ledger Book, circa [Scrapbooks Box 17] 34