The records in this series concern Strom Thurmond's personal life, excluding his legal and military careers, which are represented in a series of their own. The series is divided into four subseries: College Days, Educational Career, General Correspondence and Subject Correspondence. There are some family trees on the Thurmond/Strom families stored in the Special Collections' oversize section.
The Pinks series was the cross-reference file for subject correspondence generated by Senator Strom Thurmond's office for the period 1954-1976 before the introduction of the centralized Correspondence Management System by the Senate Computer Center in 1976. The original cross-reference files consisted of pink colored carbon paper copies-hence, the "Pinks" series.
