Finding Aid for the Warren Ashby Papers, 1949-1980
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Dr. Warren Ashby, professor of religious studies at UNCG from 1949 until his death in 1985, gathered these materials for the purpose of writing a biography entitled Frank Porter Graham: a Southern Liberal, which was published in 1980 after more than twenty years of research.
MSS 052
3 linear feet, 4 boxes
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Warren Ashby Papers (MSS 052), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gift of Mrs. Warren Ashby
Dr. Warren Ashby, professor of religious studies at UNCG from 1949 until his death in 1985, gathered these materials for the purpose of writing a biography of Frank Porter Graham. His book, Frank Porter Graham: a Southern Liberal, was published in 1980 after more than twenty years of research.
Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1930 until 1949. He resigned this position when Governor Kerr appointed him to the US Senate to complete the unexpired term of the deceased Sen. Joseph Melville Broughton. Graham lost his bid for election to his own seat in the Senate in 1950 and spent the next nineteen years as a United Nations mediator. He died in 1972 in Chapel Hill.
The Warren Ashby Papers date from 1949 to 1980 and contain correspondence; research materials; speeches; photographs; typescripts; interview transcripts and tape recordings; and sound recordings of political announcements used during Graham's 1950 Senate campaign.
ARRANGEMENT
Box 1
Research notes
Campaign for Higher Education 1920-1921
Campaign for Higher Education 1920-1921 (cont.)
FPG and the National Sharecroppers Fund
Senate campaign of 1950
Senate campaign of 1950 (cont.)
FPG's committee memberships
Photographs
Transcripts of interviews 1960s
Box 2
Ashby correspondence 1958-1959
Ashby correspondence Jan.-June 1960
Ashby correspondence July-Dec. 1960
Ashby correspondence 1961-1978
FPG speeches 1909 & 1950s
FPG speeches 1960s
FPG articles 1950-1963
FPG correspondence 1930-1967
News clippings: FPG and the Graham family
Box 3
Introduction and Chapter 1. Typescript.
"A Breath of Freedom" - Chapter 2. Typescript.
"The Discovery of History"-Chapter 3. Typescript.
"Discovery of a Cause"-Chapter 4. Typescript.
"History Taught and Lived"-Chapter 5. Typescript.
"Industrial Revolution and a New Bill of Rights"-Chapter 6. Typescript.
"A Man of Power and Enthusiasm"-Chapter 7. Typescript.
"At Home in the President's House"-Chapter 8. Typescript.
"The New University of North Carolina"-Chapter 9. Typescript.
"University Crusades and Crises"-Chapter 10. Typescript.
"Social and Economic Justice"-Chapter 11. Typescript.
"A More Democratic South"-Chapter 12. Typescript.
"Civil Rights and Communism"-Chapter 16. Typescript.
"Southerner and Senator"-Chapter 17. Typescript.
"Campaign Ordeal"-Chapter 18. Typescript.
"Beyond Defeat"-Chapter 19. Typescript.
"The United Nations, India, and Pakistan"-Chapter 20. Typescript.
"The Ideals of the American Revolution"-Chapter 21. Typescript.
"The Return Home"-Chapter 22. Typescript.
Epilogue. Typescript.
Source notes.
Box 4
Tape 1 - FPG 21 June 1960
Tape 2 - FPG 22 June 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 3 - FPG 22 June 1960
Tape 4 - FPG 24 June 1960
Tape 5 - FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 8 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 6 - FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 9 Aug. 1960 Henry Brandis 21 July 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 7 - FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 10 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 8 - FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 11 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 9 - FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 11 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 10- FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 12 Aug. 1960
Tape 11- FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 12 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 12- FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 13 Aug. 1960 (cassette available)
Tape 13- FPG w/Allard Lowenstein & Charles Lewes 18 April 1961
Tape 14- FPG w/Hubert Robinson 9 June 1962
FPG w/ William B. Aycock 9 June 1962
Tape 15- FPG w/Mayne Albright 9 June 1962
Tape 16- FPG w/Robert B. House 10 June 1962
FPG w/Henry Patterson, James Wallace, Joel Fleischman 10 June 1962
Tape 17- FPG w/Anne Queen, Stuart Willis, Charlie Jones June 1962
FPG w/Jonathan Daniels, Mrs. Kerr Scott, Mrs. Jeff Johnson June 1962
Tape 18- FPG w/Henry Brandis 9 June 1962
Tape 19- FPG w/Terry Sanford & William Friday 11 June 1962
Tape 20- FPG w/Fred Weaver 11 June 1962
Tape 21- FPG w/Warren Ashby 12 June 1962
Tape 22- FPG w/Kemp Battle & Francis Winslow 11 June 1962
Tape 23- FPG w/Claude Teague 11 June 1962
Tape 24- L. P. McLendon, R. B. House, Hubert Robinson 1959. Phil Club
Tape 25- Charles M. Jones June 1960
Tape 26- Robert B. House 30 June 1960
Tape 27- M. T. Van Hecke, Chapel Hill, 30 June 1960
Tape 28- John W. Umstead, Jr. 7 July 1960
Tape 29- Hubert Robinson 9 July 1960
Tape 30- Hiden Ramsey 21 July 1960
Tape 31- Clarence Poe 21 July 1960
Tape 32- Mayne Albright 21 July 1960
Tape 33- Otho Ross 22 July 1960
Tape 34- William B. Aycock 22 July 1960
Tape 35- Allard Lowenstein 18 April 1961
Tape 36- FPG's Raleigh High School students
Tape 37- Unidentified
Sound Recordings (all 33 1/3 rpm)
Recording 1 - Political announcement by Senator FPG [1950]
Recording 2 - Dr. E. McNeill Poteat speaking in behalf of Sen. Frank Graham [1950]
Recording 3 - Mrs. Walter Pike. Frank Graham Campaign 4/20/50
Recording 4 - Dr. I. Beverly Lake [1950]
Recording 5 - Mrs. Charles W. Tillett [1950]
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