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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Report and Letters, #3976-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy of report available.

Acquisitions Information

Typescript lent for copying by Mrs. Frank McCallister of Chicago, Ill., April 1971. Additional material received from Kenneth Douty and Ralph McCallister, 1971.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Associations, institutions, etc.--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Communism--United States.
• Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-
• Douty, Kenneth.
• Fund for the Republic.
• Liberalism--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Southern Conference for Human Welfare.

• Kenneth Douty Papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
• Southern Conference for Human Welfare Collection, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.

Kenneth Douty was the Illinois Director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In the 1950s he was hired to study the extent of Communist influence in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) during the 1930s and 1940s. The study was funded by a grant from the Fund for the Republic.

The collection includes a photocopy of a report made by Kenneth Douty as part of a study done under the auspices of the Fund for the Republic, 1955-1956, concerning the Communist influence in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) in the 1930s and 1940s; and five letters written in 1971 pertaining to the report, including a detailed letter from William T. Couch, an active participant in the SCHW.