DARLY HIDEN RAMSEY PAPERS, #3805, 1877-1966
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Ramsey, newspaper editor, public speaker, city
and state official, member of educational boards, writer, and civic leader of western North
Carolina. Includes a lecture on race relations (1913); letters written by Ramsey concerning
his perception of an impending racial crises (1942); his opinion that school segregation was
imperiled by the lag of some counties in supplying facilities for African Americans (1948);
and his opinion concerning opportunities for African-American teachers in North Carolina as
compared to opportunities in the North (1947).
