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Alan Schaffer Collection of F.B.I. Files Relating to the Lynching of Willie Earle

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0156
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from the book The F.B.I. Story (by Don Whitehead, 1956) and the New Yorker (June 14, 1947), lab reports and an investigative report concerning the Willie Earle lynching and the F.B.I.'s involvement in the case. Also includes deleted page information sheets. Some of this material is sanitized, with the section of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act permitting sanitization often...
Dates: 1947 - 1988; 1947 - 1947

Strom Thurmond Collection, Gubernatorial Series

 Series — Box: 1-169
Identifier: Mss-0100-08
Abstract

The material in the Strom Thurmond Collection Gubernatorial Series includes correspondence (both official and personal), campaign material, speeches and other items documenting Strom Thurmond's term as Governor of South Carolina from 1946-1951. Some of this material was originally part of the holdings of the South Caroliniana Library of The University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Dates: 1923 - 1955; 1946 - 1951

Strom Thurmond Collection, Legal Series (Restricted)

 Series — Box: 1-21
Identifier: Mss-0100-03
Scope and Content Note The legal records of J. Strom Thurmond consist of three subseries; those concerning his legal practice, legal correspondence as the Edgefield Town and County Attorney, and correspondence concerning Thurmond's activities when serving as Eleventh Circuit Judge. The dates preceding the start of Thurmond's practice in 1930 are recordings of wills and mortgages.The Legal Practice subseries (Subseries A; 7.175 cu. ft.) consists of three sub-subseries: Law Cases, the Record Book, and...
Dates: 1840 1900-1955

Will Gravely Collection - Willie Earle Investigation

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0299
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from lab reports, an oral history interview with transcripts, and an investigative report concerning the February 17, 1947 lynching of Willie Earle. The files document the Federal Bureau of Investigation's involvement in the case and documentation of its coverage in the media. Professor Will Gravely obtained the bulk of this material under the Freedom of Information Act in 2001....
Dates: 1947 - 2001

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