LENOIR CHAMBERS PAPERS, #3827, 1907-1970
Correspondence, speeches, writings, and research materials of Chambers, native of North
Carolina, newspaper editor, and author. The 1930s papers include an unpublished editorial
about lynching, a news release from Atlanta, Georgia, about the Southern Commission on the
Study of Lynching, and a mimeographed report about lynching from Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute. Also included are a group of "Letters to the Editor" and correspondence
on the Supreme Court decision on segregation in public schools (1954-1958); a report entitled "Press Coverage of the Desegregation
Story" given at an American Society of Newspaper Editors convention (1955); information on the policies of newspapers in Norfolk and Princess Anne
Counties, Virginia, concerning circulation to blacks (1956);
drafts, booklets, and articles concerning school desegregation and the migration of blacks to
the North (1958).