JAMES MCBRIDE DABBS PAPERS, #3816, 1914-1980
Papers of Dabbs, English professor, churchman, civil rights leader, and farmer of
Mayesville, South Carolina, including records of Penn Community Services, a center for civil
rights debates and conferences. Papers discuss, among other political and social issues,
racial inequalities (1944-1970). The collection
includes letters commenting on the treatment of blacks, occasional hate-mail letters prompted
by Dabbs's civil rights activism and writings, Dabbs's articles on desegregation, and
research material Dabbs collected in files, bearing titles such as "Freedom of Thought in
Southern Colleges" (which contains correspondence between Dabbs and professors at southern
institutions about the issue of freedom to comment on desegregation events) and "The economic
effect of the racial struggle."
