MARK FOSTER ETHRIDGE PAPERS, #3842, 1913-1981
Professional correspondence and speeches of Ethridge related to his career in journalism,
principally as editor and publisher of the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal and Times;
editor of New York Newsday; and instructor in journalism at the University of North Carolina.
Letters concern American race problems in general (1933); civil
liberties in regard to African Americans, Jews, and the Ku Klux Klan (1939); the education of African Americans in Mississippi (1940); segregation in the South (1956, 1964); and the Ku Klux Klan (1964). The collection also
contains Ethridge's personal notes on civil rights (Folder 166) and copies of his speeches,
such as "America's Obligation to Its Negro Citizens" (1937), a
lynching speech (1940), "The Race Problem in the War" (1942), and "The South's Worst Qualities Have Come Out," which dealt with
integration (1956).
