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[Identification of item], in the Edgar Gardner Murphy Papers, #1041, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gifts 1945, 1964

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Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• African Americans--Education--United States--History.
• Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Child labor--Law and legislation--United States--History.
• Church and labor--United States--History.
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--Political activity.
• Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913.
• Murphy, Gardner, 1895-1979.
• Scrapbooks.
• Southern States--Social conditions.
• Suffrage--Alabama--History--20th century.
• United States--Race relations--History.

• Southern Education Board Papers (#680), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Edgar Gardner Murphy was born in Fort Smith, Ark., and grew up there and in San Antonio, Tex. From 1891 to 1903, Murphy was a practicing Episcopal clergyman in San Antonio; Laredo, Tex.; Chillicothe, Ohio; Kingston, N.Y.; and Montgomery, Ala. In 1903, he left the ministry to become Executive Secretary of the Southern Education Board. Through writing, speaking, and organizing, Murphy established himself as a prominent commentator on race relations, child labor, and public education. He retired as an invalid in 1908 but continued to write up until his death. Murphy was married to Maud King of Concord, Mass., with whom he had two sons, Gardner and DuBose.

Correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers of Murphy, whose interests included race relations and child labor reform. The collection consists of an incomplete manuscript of a projected book, Issues Southern and National; scattered correspondence, mostly letters received by Murphy from scholars and philanthropists, with some copies of letters from Murphy to his son, Gardner (b. 1895), psychologist and author; scrapbook, 1891-1901, and clippings and other printed matter written by or about Murphy, his ideas and activities while a minister in Texas, Ohio, New York, and Montgomery, Ala., reflecting an interest in race relations, education of African Americans, industrial conditions, child labor legislation, public schools, and the question of suffrage restrictions in the Alabama constitutional convention of 1901. Also included is a German translation of A Beginner's Star Book by Kelvin McKready (a.k.a. E. G. Murphy).

• Photographs (PF-1041/1)