Waring Letters,, 1954

Letters with photocopied newspaper clippings from January to July 1954. Topics include Supreme Court Clarendon case with Chief Justice Earl Warren, attorney John William Davis and Dr. Kenneth Clark in attendance; Elizabeth expressing desire to write their autobiographies and to be buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery; having dinner with Kenneth and Mamie Clark; Roy Wilkins and N.A.A.C.P.; Ralph Bunche; Thurgood Marshall; the Urban League; visiting Arthur Garfield Hays; Judge's meeting with [William] Averell Harriman to assist in N.A.A.C.P. fundraising efforts to implement the Supreme Court decision; opinions regarding Marion Wright as president of the Southern Regional Council; John McCray's Lighthouse article regarding Modjeska Simpkins; discussing Alan Paton articles in The Crisis and Colliers and scheduling lectures; celebrating the Supreme Court decision re Brown vs. the Board of Education [17 May]; personal comments regarding John Hammond featured in a New Yorker magazine article.