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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Samuel Chiles Mitchell Papers #01003, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Samuel Chiles Mitchell in 1945 and 1946; George Sinclair Mitchell in 1956 and 1960; Broadus Mitchell in 1961; Mary Mitchell Clifford in 1963 and 1977; and Charlotte Mitchell Frey and Ellen Mitchell in 1998.

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• Afro-Americans--Education--History.
• Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931.
• Baptists--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Clifford, Mary Mitchell.
• College presidents--United States.
• Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.
• Dabney, Virginius, 1901- .
• Education, Higher--United States--History.
• Education--Southern States--History.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953.
• Industrial relations--Southern States.
• Jews--United States--Charities.
• Jews--United States--Social life and customs.
• Medical College of Virginia--History.
• Mitchell, Broadus, 1892- .
• Mitchell, George Sinclair, 1902-1962.
• Mitchell, Morris R. (Morris Randolph), 1895-1976.
• Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948.
• Mitchell, Terry, fl. 1920-1944.
• Negro Rural School Fund, Inc.
• New Deal, 1933-1939--Southern States.
• Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.
• Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938.
• Race relations--Southern States.
• Trade-unions--United States--History.
• University of Delaware--History.
• University of Richmond--History.
• University of South Carolina--History.
• Young Men's Christian associations.

• Broadus Mitchell Papers (#4141) and Morris Randolph Mitchell Papers (#3832), Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Samuel Chiles Mitchell Papers, Library of Congress.
• Records of the President, University of South Carolina.
• George Sinclair Mitchell Papers, Duke University Library.

Family, personal, and professional correspondence and other papers of Samuel Chiles Mitchell and his family. Included are letters from Mitchell's professional colleagues and former students, labor leaders, and newspaper editors concerning the affairs of various institutions with which Mitchell was connected; public and higher education in the South; race relations; the education of African Americans; Jewish charitable activities; Baptist institutions and activities; the Young Men's Christian Association; labor-management relations and the unionization of southern workers; the New Deal; and other social and political issues.

Family letters include those from Alice Broadus Mitchell to her mother discussing family life, and letters of the Mitchell children: Broadus Mitchell, economic historian and professor at Occidental College, Johns Hopkins University, and Rutgers University, Socialist, and employee of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Terry Mitchell, advertising executive at Waynesboro, Pa.; George, economist, instructor at Columbia University, and employee of the Resettlement Administration, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Southern Regional Council; Morris Mitchell, teacher at Ellerbe, N.C., the Park School in Snyder, N.Y., Teachers College at Columbia University, and Alabama State Teachers College, and secretary of the Southeastern Cooperative League in Clarksville, Ga.; and Mary Mitchell Clifford, wife of George Orr Clifford, businessman of Akron, Ohio, Evansville, Ind., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., Ilion, N.Y., and Southport, Conn.

• Film (F-1003/1-2)
• Oversize photograph (OP-PF-1003/1)
• Oversize volume (SV-1003/7)
• Photographs (PF-1003/1-2)
• Photograph album (PA-1003/1)
• Separated folder (SEP-1003/1)
• Oversize papers (XOPF-1003/1a, OPF-1003/1b)