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Contains 15 Results:

Waring Letters,, 1953

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Warings correspondence with others and sent to Cornwell (1953) includes letter from Marion Wright regarding the impending abolishment of segregation despite gradualist efforts and Governor James Byrnes attitude regarding segregation; and letter to the Ford Foundation commending them for sponsoring radio shows discussing South Africa's segregation and East Harlem inferior housing for Blacks.

Dates: 1953
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers / 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring

Waring Letters,, 1953

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Letters from July to October 1953. Topics include Supreme Court delay on segregation cases; demeaning portrayals of Blacks in the performing arts; Arthur J. Clement, the Charleston N.A.A.C.P. and possible screening for Communist infiltration; McCarthyism; Septima Clark; meeting with psychologist Kenneth Clark and Reverend James H. Robinson, author of Road Without Turning.

Dates: 1953
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers / 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring

Waring Letters,, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1954
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers / 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring

Waring Letters,, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents Letters with photocopied newspaper clippings from August to December 1954. Topics include thoughts on meeting author [Jay] Sauders Redding; anticipation re Charleston NAACP testimonial dinner held in the Waring's honor; author Emily Kimbrough; Marion Anderson performing at the Metropolitan Opera House; journalist [William] Hodding Carter [II]; requesting John Hammond to Charleston NAACP testimonial; Alan Paton's article in Collier's ["The Negro in America Today"]; hosting party for Jay...
Dates: 1954
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers / 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring

Waring Letters,, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings (1954) include the South's desegregation plan and NAACP testimonial dinner.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers / 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring
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