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Library of the University of North Carolina
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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4344
CHARLES HORACE HAMILTON PAPERS
Initial Inventory
Abstract:
Charles Horace Hamilton, rural sociologist with particular
interests in rural life, the rural church, the rural family,
rural health issues, the land tenure system, farm labor,
internal migration, methods of population analysis, and social
statistics. After teaching at many institutions, including
Lon Morris College, the University of North Carolina, and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hamilton was appointed
professor of rural sociology at North Carolina State
University and consulted widely in his field.
Files chiefly containing Hamilton's professional and
personal correspondence. Personal correspondence includes a
number of letters from family members. Most of the papers
cover Hamilton's years at Lon Morris College, UNC, VPI, and
NCSU, and treat topics such as rural sociology, farm tenancy
interracial cooperation, and African-American education.
Correspondence provides insights into the interracial
cooperation movement in Texas and the study of social science
at UNC in the 1920s and 1930s. Correspondents include George
Collins of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rupert Vance, and
Howard Odum. There are also a few items relating to Jesse
Daniel Ames.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-Americans--Education.
Ames, Jesse Daniel, 1883-1972.
Education, Rural--United States.
Farm tenancy--United States.
Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Hamilton, C. Horace (Charles Horace), 1901- .
Lon Morris College (Jacksonville, Tex.).
North Carolina State University. Dept. of Sociology.
Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.
Race relations--United States.
Rural conditions--United States.
Rural-urban migration--United States.
Sociologists--United States.
Sociology, Rural--United States.
Sociology--Statistical methods.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Sociology.
Vance, Rupert Bayless, 1899- .
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dept. of Sociology.
Size: About 4,500 items (7.5 linear feet).
Provenance: Received from Mrs. C. Horace Hamilton of Raleigh,
N.C., in 1983.
Access: Unprocessed. May be used with staff assistance.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
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