Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4193
STETSON KENNEDY PAPERS
Summary
Kennedy, Stetson.
Papers, 1936-1978.
88 items (0.5 linear ft.).
In large part photocopies of original materials retained by Mr. Kennedy.
Stetson Kennedy was employed in the 1930s by the Florida office of the
Federal Writers' Project as a folklorist. He went on to write many
articles and books on folklore and on social problems in the South.
Correspondence, 1938-1939, and other papers relating to the Florida office
of the Federal Writers' Project, including letters exchanged by staff
members Roland Phillips and Maxwell Hunter in Washington, D.C., and
director Carita Doggett Corse, while the former were editing the state
guide, specifically downplaying some of the more controversial aspects of
race relations. The letters give insight into the operation of the Project
and into the relationship between the state and national offices. Also
included are thirty-three life histories and narratives generated by the
project, all pertaining to Florida, four of which concern Mulberry Grove
Plantation. In addition, there is scattered material (correspondence and
writings), 1938-1945, relating to Stetson Kennedy's work for the Project
and his later career; and a folder of miscellaneous material, 1938-1978,
relating to African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston.
Acquired 1979-1980.
SEE ALSO: Federal Writers' Project Records (#3709) in the Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SEE ALSO: Stetson Kennedy Papers, Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State
University, Atlanta.
ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
Authors, American--Correspondence.
Corse, Carita Doggett, 1892-
Federal Writers' Project. Florida--Officials and employees.
Florida--Biography.
Florida--Social conditions--20th century.
Folklore--Florida.
Hunter, Maxwell.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Kennedy, Stetson.
Mulberry Grove Plantation (Fla.).
Phillips, Roland.
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.