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{"value"=>"Sc Micro R-3548", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1916-1950", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1916/1950"}
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1916
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1950
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1916
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{"value"=>"Stetson Kennedy collection"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"2.5 linear feet (6 boxes). Also available on 4 reels of microfilm."}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</span>"}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Kennedy, Stetson", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Stetson Kennedy's career as an author began in the 1930's when he worked as both a writer and an editor on the Federal Writers' Project guide to Florida. The affiliations made there led to an invitation to write the Florida volume in the American Folkways series, edited by Erskine Caldwell. This volume, <span class=\"emph\">Palmetto Country</span>(1942) established Kennedy's reputation as an authority on the traditions and culture of his home state. His next book, <span class=\"emph\">Southern Exposure</span>(1946) was an expose of the social and political inequities of the South in the 1940's. Later, he continued his crusade with <span class=\"emph\">I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan</span>(1954) and <span class=\"emph\">Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.</span>(1959). At various times, he has contributed articles to the <span class=\"emph\">New York Times, New York Post, Saturday Review, Nation, New Republic,</span>and other periodicals in the U.S. and abroad. The author of the column <span class=\"title\">Inside Out,</span> syndicated by the Federated Press, from 1937 until 1950, Kennedy also wrote a column <span class=\"title\">Up Front Down South</span> for the <span class=\"emph\">Pittsburgh Courier</span>in the 1960's.</p> <p>Kennedy's writing career has existed, in his words, “as a tool to air human grievances.” His devotion to the causes of civil rights and equality for all has been lifelong, and is the driving force behind all his books and articles. He has been affiliated with a wide variety of political and social action groups, including, among many others, the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. As an agent of the Georgia government, he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan under the pseudonym, John Perkins; both <span class=\"title\">Southern Exposure</span>and <span class=\"title\">I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan</span>are based in part on this experience.</p> <p>Kennedy was born in Jacksonville, Florida, of an old southern family, on October 5, 1916. He attended the University of Florida, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Paris. As an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida in 1950, he ran on a “Total Equality” platform. From 1952 through 1960, Kennedy lived and traveled in Europe, Asia, and Africa. His interest in communism led him behind the Iron Curtain, where he lived and worked for three years, primarily in Hungary. He emerged, disenchanted, as a refugee in 1956.</p> <p>Upon his return to the U.S. and Florida in 1960, Kennedy remained active in the civil rights and peace movements as a writer and lecturer. He joined the federal anti-poverty program in Miami in 1965, and later became its assistant director. He has been married several times.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Stetson Kennedy Collection (1916-1950) consists of Kennedy's research files on various organizations, individuals, and subjects. Collected during the 1930's and 1940's, the material provided the basis for the books <span class=\"title\">Southern Exposure</span>and <span class=\"title\">I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan</span>and many newspaper and magazine articles. Included in the collection are correspondence; typescripts of articles; Kennedy's notes; newspaper and magazine clippings; and printed material, including publications and insignia of the organizations. Many items are photostatic copies, and numerous others are incomplete. The collection is divided into two series, the <span class=\"emph\">Ku Klux Klan Research File</span> and the <span class=\"emph\">General Research File</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Stetson Kennedy collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20724#c648827'>Ku Klux Klan Research File</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The <span class=\"emph\">KU KLUX KLAN RESEARCH FILE,</span>1916-1950, is comprised of material collected by Kennedy in the 1940's. Much of it seems to have been gathered through his infiltration of the Georgia Klan. The series has been organized into three subseries, Correspondence, Writings, and Printed Material.</p> <p>Within each folder, material is arranged chronologically. A substantial portion of the material is not dated. Dates have been approximated when possible; otherwise, undated items follow the chronological sequence. Kennedy's notes are composed largely of small strips of paper. For ease of use, these have been fastened to 8 1/2\" by 11\" sheets, several to a page. No intellectual relationship is implied by the presence of several of these strips on the same page.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20724#c648848'>General Research File</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The <span class=\"emph\">GENERAL RESEARCH FILE,</span>1934-1950, consists of Kennedy's subject file of research materials, arranged alphabetically. In the majority of cases, Kennedy's own subject headings have been retained. Many of the subjects are conservative, anti-labor, or white power organizations and individuals. Some are represented by only a few items; others by several folders. In each subject file, material is arranged as follows except when otherwise noted: correspondence, typescripts, notes, clippings, printed material. Within each of these groups, arrangement is chronological, with undated items at the end. A file of miscellaneous material on a variety of subjects follows the alphabetical sequence, arranged in the same sequence as the subject files.</p> <p>The final box of the collection consists of Kennedy's card file. Arranged alphabetically by subject, this file includes information about many of the same subjects as the General Research File, as well as other subjects, organizations, and individuals.</p> <p>As in the Ku Klux Klan Research File, strips of Kennedy's notes have been fastened to larger sheets, for convenience only. Also, some of these strips contain so little information that no subject is apparent. In these cases, they have been retained in the subject file where they were found.</p> <p>Throughout this series, material often pertains to both an organization and a prominent individual within that organization. In such cases, the file has been titled according to what appears to be the primary focus. Similarly, the organizations and individuals included in the General Research File overlap to some extent; the subject of one file may be mentioned in a subsidiary way within another. For example, there is a subject file for General George Van Horn Moseley, but he is mentioned as well in the folder for Major Frank Pease.</p> <p>Some of the subjects covered most completely are: the Columbians, a shortlived Georgia white-power group; the Right-to-Work movement in the 1940's, and the Christian Americans, a group instrumental in that movement; Eugene Talmadge's death prior to his inauguration as Georgia governor in 1947 and his son Herman's subsequent, unsuccessful claim to the governorship. (The latter is filed under Georgia politics.)</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Stetson Kennedy, ca. 1952.</p> <p>SCM78-8</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The following items were removed from the:</p> <p>Stetson Kennedy Collection</p> <p>Accession number: SCM78-8</p> <p>and have been sent to the division indicated, either to be retained or disposed of there. Any items that should receive special disposition are clearly marked.</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\">General Reference and Research Division:</span></p> <p>Two folders: pamphlets, clippings and other printed material to Vertical File.</p> <p> <span class=\"emph\">Photograph and Prints Division:</span></p> <p>One folder photographs (prints, negatives, contact sheets). One zinc printing plate.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Stetson Kennedy Papers are also located at the Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"Collection organized into two series: I Ku Klux Klan Research Files; and II General Research Files", "supress_display"=>true}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; call number Sc Micro R-3548</p>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Research files on organizations, individuals, and subjects collected for Kennedy's books, I RODE WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN (1954) and SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (1946), and newspaper and magazine articles. Includes correspondence, transcripts of articles, first person accounts of Klan meetings, notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, and printed material including publications. Subjects include the Klan in Georgia and Tennessee; Klan leaders such as J.B Stoner; the Columbians, a Georgia white power group; the Christian Americans and the right-to-work movement in the 1940s; and Georgia politics, including Eugene and Herman Tallmadge."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Stetson Kennedy collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by L. Lockhart; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
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1916
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1950