409. LOUIS I. JAFFE PAPERS
430 items, 1931-49
Articles, reports, speeches, news clippings, pamphlets, and other
printed material, photographs, and some correspondence, all pertaining to
subjects of concern to Jaffe as editor of the Virginian- Pilot. The chief
topic is the use by Norfolk Polytechnic College (Virginia
State University) of a vacated nurses home at the former St. Vincent's Hospital in a predominantly black
section of Norfolk. Also of interest are materials
on the Southern Regional Council including minutes of the executive
committee and board meetings and copies of The Southern Frontier and The New
South. Other topics include suffrage reform, particularly in regard to the
poll tax; World War II, especially the military buildup in Norfolk and
attendant problems; Virginia politics and the Byrd
machine; Norfolk civic issues; public health; and Judaism. Of unusual
interest is a letter from Bravid W. Harris about
Third World democracy and Liberia.
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