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Accession Number: 55
The Southern Regional Council Project Collection
Papers, 1954
1 small ms. box
.2 linear feet
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Provenance: The collection was given to Berea
College by Dr. Robert Menefee. There are no restrictions on the
collection other than federal copyright regulations.
Preferred Citation: The Southern Regional Council Project on Desegregation
in Appalachia, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.
Overview
The collection consists primarily of documents Robert Menefee used
to plan and carry out a survey of Appalachian attitudes towards school
desegregation in the summer of 1954, together with related Southern
Regional Council (SRC) correspondence before, during, and after the
project. The files contain the observations Menefee made at the time
of the survey, as well as reports of local attitudes observed the previous year
by an SRC executive, William Vastine. Both Menefee's draft of his final report
to the SRC and the
published
version
are included.
History
In 1954 the Southern Regional Council (SRC) contacted Berea College professor
of sociology Roscoe Giffin, proposing that he survey attitudes in southern
Appalachia about the U. S. Supreme Court's recent desegregation decision, Brown
v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Giffin declined but recommended
a Berea colleague in the Economics and Business department, Robert Menefee.
Giffin's recommendation was accepted, and Menefee was invited to work for the
SRC for two months, July 12 to September 12. Travelling in the mountain regions
of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, he spoke with a total of 218 people
in 29 Appalachian counties about public school desegregation. Menefee submitted
his report in October, 1954. It was immediately accepted and comprised the
October 1954 (Vol. 9, No. 10) issue of the SCR’s New South, entitled "The
Supreme Court Decision and the Appalachian South."
Box List
1 Manuscript Box
Box 1
- General Information
- General Correspondence, July-August 1954
- Correspondence, May-December 1954
- Lists of Contact Persons
- Lists of Places Visited and Itinerary
- Maps
- Draft of New South Article and the published version\
- Personal Notes and
Impressions
- SRC Publications 1954
- Statistics and County Information
- Vastine Report 1953
- Weekly Reports July 10-September 8, 1954
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