Inventory of the Howard Washington Odum Papers, 1908-1982

Collection Number 3167

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection Information

Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Online Catalog Headings

Biographical Note

Collection Overview

Detailed Description of the Collection

Items Separated

Related Collections

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator: Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.

Title: Howard Washington Odum Papers, 1908-1982

Call Number: 3167

Language of Materials: Materials in English

Extent: Items: About 55,000; Linear Feet: 112.5

Abstract

Howard Washington Odum, sociologist of the American South; author; professor at the University of North Carolina from 1920 to 1954; and founder of the Sociology Department, the School of Public Welfare, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina.

The collection documents Howard Odum's active and varied career in sociology, race relations, regional planning, Jersey cattle breeding, and several regional national boards and commissions concerned with social and economic welfare, especially during the Roosevelt administration. There is very little material concerning Odum's formal education or his early career days in Philadelphia and Atlanta. The original deposits (circa 10,000 items) are arranged in six series: 1) Correspondence, chiefly 1925-1955, concerning the origin of the School of Public Welfare at the University of North Carolina; the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Atlanta, Ga.; and arrangements for Frances Sage Bradley of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor to teach and do field work with Odum's students. 2) Odum's speeches and writings, 1919-1954. Speeches address topics such as regionalism, education, race relations, and Southern development. Writings consist of Odum's book drafts, research notes, articles, and other material. 3) Flyers, minutes, budget reports, agendas, and related materials concerning the various organizational activities of Odum, circa 1920-1954. 4) Photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers, articles, and announcements related to Odum's numerous activities, circa 1920-1982. 5) Various items including contracts with publishing houses, class syllabi, photocopies of newspaper clippings, awards, and membership certificates concerning Odum, his family, and employees, circa 1922-1954. 6) Photographs intended for publication in an unfinished novel by Odum, and of Odum in various settings. Additions after 1990 have added over 45,000 items similar to those in the original deposits, but expanding the date span of the collection.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access: No restrictions.

Acquisitions Information: Received from the Odum family of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1955 and May 1974; from the Institute for Research in Social Science in June 1963, May 1973, and August 2000 (Acc. 98722); from Richard Cording in June 1990 (Acc. 90066); from John Herbert Roper of Abingdon, Va. in September 2004 (Acc. 99901). Additions of February 1991 (Acc. 91039) and June 1993 (Acc. 93083) received from Washington University, Saint Louis, Mo.

Processing Information: Processed by: Manuscripts Department staff; Encoded by: Jessica Tyree, August 2005; Finding aid updated in July 2007 by Margaret Dickson because of addition.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Howard Washington Odum Papers #3167, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Bradley, Frances Sage, 1862-1949.

Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

Education--Southern States--History--20th century.

Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.

Regional planning--United States--History.

Regionalism--United States.

Sociologists--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Southern States--Economic policy.

United States--Economic conditions--20th century.

United States--Race relations--20th century.

United States--Social conditions--20th century.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Sociology.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of City and Regional Planning.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute for Research in Social Science.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Public Welfare.

Related Collections

Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress's American Memory website (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html) for documentary photographs, some of which have descriptive "subregional" notes created by Odum.
Records of the Institute for Research in Social Science (#40075), University Archives and Records Service, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Emory University Library has a collection of the manuscripts of Odum's published books.
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Biographical Note

Howard Washington Odum was born in 1884, on a small farm near Bethlehem, Georgia, the son of William Pleasants and Mary Ann Odum.

In 1900, Odum began his studies at Emory College, and graduated four years later. Odum then moved to Mississippi, where he taught school and attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He also earned a master's degree in the classics at Mississippi.

After Odum received a Ph.D. degree in psychology from Clark University, he entered Columbia University. Under the direction of Franklin Henry Giddings, Odum completed the requirements for his second doctoral degree, this one in sociology. In 1910, his dissertation, "Social and Mental Traits of the Negro," was published in part by Columbia.

Odum then worked at the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research as a research expert, and later as a professor at the University of Georgia. He returned to Emory in 1919 as the dean of liberal arts.

In 1920, Odum arrived in Chapel Hill, N.C., to direct the School of Public Welfare and Department of Sociology. A few years after his arrival, Odum established the Institute for Research in Social Science, and founded the journal Social Forces. While at the University of North Carolina, he began to demonstrate the variety of talents and great energy that his peers found remarkable. Odum toiled constantly to improve race relations, the quality of education, and living conditions in the South.

During the 1920s and through the Great Depression, Odum authored three novels, served as Assistant Director of Research for President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends, and chaired the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration. In addition, Odum was president of the American Sociological Society, chief of the Social Science Division of "A Century of Progress" at the Chicago World's Fair, and head of the North Carolina Commission for Interracial Cooperation.

In 1944, Odum was one of the five founding members of the Southern Regional Council. He also became president of the North Carolina Jersey Cattlemen's Association during World War II. Along with Odum's skill as organizer and social reformer, he was a prolific writer. From 1909 until his death in 1954, he wrote more than twenty books and 200 articles reflecting his concern for race relations, education, the social sciences, and regionalism.

Odum received at least three honorary degrees; the College of the Ozarks, Harvard University, and his alma mater in Georgia bestowed honors on him. He also received the O. Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina.

In 1909, Odum met Anna Louise Kranz. They were later married and had three children: Mary Frances, Howard Thomas, and Eugene Pleasants. Odum died 8 November 1954.

Collection Overview

The collection documents Howard Washington Odum's active and varied career in sociology, race relations, regional planning, Jersey cattle breeding, and several regional national boards and commissions concerned with social and economic welfare, especially during the Roosevelt administration. There is very little material concerning Odum's formal education or his early career days in Philadelphia and Atlanta. The original deposits (circa 10,000 items) are arranged in six series: 1) Correspondence, chiefly 1925-1955, concerning the origin of the School of Public Welfare at the University of North Carolina; the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Atlanta, Ga.; and arrangements for Frances Sage Bradley of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor to teach and do field work with Odum's students. 2) Odum's speeches and writings, 1919-1954. Speeches address topics such as regionalism, education, race relations, and southern development. Writings consist of Odum's book drafts, research notes, articles, and other material. 3) Flyers, minutes, budget reports, agendas, and related materials concerning the various organizational activities of Odum, circa 1920-1954. 4) Photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers, articles, and announcements related to Odum's numerous activities, circa 1920-1982. 5) Various items including contracts with publishing houses, class syllabi, photocopies of newspaper clippings, awards, and membership certificates concerning Odum, his family, and employees, circa 1922-1954. 6) Photographs intended for publication in an unfinished novel by Odum and of Odum in various settings. Additions after 1990 have added over 45,000 items similar to those in the original deposits, but expanding the date span of the collection.

Note that voluminous material received after 1990 remains arranged as received. Researchers are advised to scan these folder lists for materials of interest.

Arrangement of Collection

Series 1. Correspondence, chiefly 1925-1954
Series 2. Speeches and Writings (almost all by Howard Washington Odum), chiefly 1925-1954
Subseries 2.1. Speeches
Subseries 2.2. Writings
Series 3. Organizational Material, chiefly 1921-1949
Series 4. Materials about Howard Washington Odum and his work, chiefly 1925-1955
Series 5. Other Materials, chiefly 1930-1960
Series 6. Pictures, chiefly 1915-1945
Additions after 1990
Additions of February 1991 and June 1993
Addition of August 2000
Addition of September 2004
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Items Separated

Series 6. Pictures (P-3167-A/421-472)

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1. Correspondence, 1908-1982.

About 8,000 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

1908-1920.

Odum's correspondence chiefly concerns the origin of the School of Public Welfare at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Interracial Commission, Atlanta, Ga.; and arrangements for Dr. Frances Sage Bradley of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor to teach and do field work with Odum's University of North Carolina students. Scattered letters concerning publication of his work in southern periodicals. Major correspondents: Harry Woodburn Chase, University of North Carolina president; Jesse Frederick Steiner, director of the Educational Service of the Red Cross and Odum's close personal friend; Drs. Anna Rude, Julia Lathrop, and Frances Sage Bradley of the United States Department of Labor; Will W. Alexander, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Leo Perla of the Southern Review; and Albert Bushnell Hart, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Folder 1a

1908-1912

Folder 1b

1913-1918

Folder 1c-1d

1919

Folder 2-5

1920

Folder 6-7

Folder numbers not used

1921.

Correspondence is chiefly with the United States Department of Labor concerning Dr. Frances Sage Bradley's work with Odum's students, and with those involved with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Several items of correspondence concern the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Southern Cooperative League, for which Odum served on the Organization Committee. Correspondents: Jesse F. Steiner; Judia C. Jackson Harris (about a lynching); Cameron Morrison; W. L. Poteat; John Sprunt Hill; Frederick W. Jenkins; James B. Dudley; Anna E. Rude; Frances Sage Bradley; Barry C. Smith; Mrs. John Everett; and J. E. McCulloch.

Folder 8-11

1921

1922.

Major topics concern the January 1923 issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which Odum edited; the Journal of Social Forces; and city officials of Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro about ways to link the University of North Carolina more closely to the cities and towns of the state. Lesser topics include correspondence with J. W. McCulloch on the Southern Cooperative League; and with George Ross Pou, superintendent of the North Carolina state prison system, on prison reform; and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Chief correspondents: Clyde King, editor of The Annals; W. W. Alexander; J. E. McCulloch; and Gerald W. Johnson, with the Greensboro Daily News.

Folder 12-20

1922

1923.

Correspondence chiefly concerns the Journal of Social Forces. Minor topics include traveling institutes in industrial centers in North Carolina and South Carolina and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Chief correspondents: W. W. Alexander, Franklin H. Giddings, Gerald W. Johnson, Dr. Worth M. Tippy, H. W. Chase, Henry E. Barnes, William Ogburn. Also four letters (written in September) from H. L. Mencken.

Folder 21-27

1923

1924

Correspondence mainly concerns the Journal of Social Forces. Also included are letters about traveling institutes in industrial cities of North Carolina and South Carolina; a meeting of teachers of sociology Charlotte, N.C., March 25-26; three Weil lectures given by E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin; a visit of Beardsley Ruml of the Rockfeller Foundation to discuss scholarships and other Odum projects; work on a five-year study on industrial social life in the South; an Institute for Research in the Social Sciences; correspondence with Gerald and Mrs. Johnson about their new house. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, H. W. Chase, Frank H. Hankins, Franklin H. Giddings, W. W. Alexander, Worth M. Tippy, Gerald Johnson, Harriet Herring, Ora Latham Hatcher. Also four letters from H. L. Mencken (October and December).

Folder 28-51

1924

Folder number 47 not used

Folder 52-55

Folder numbers not used

1925

Chief topics are evolution, atheism, and academic freedom at the University of North Carolina. There is little about the Scopes trial, although Odum attended it, but much about the autonomy and independence of the university, the North Carolina state legislature's proposed laws banning the teaching of evolution, and essays in the Journal of Social Forces criticized as atheist and blasphemous by pastors in North Carolina. Lesser topics include the Southern Women's Educational Alliance concerning Cordelia Cox's research at the University of North Carolina on the Four County Plan and rural vocational guidance. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, Frank Hankins, Harry E. Barnes, H. W. Chase, Ora Latham Hatcher, Charles E. Merriam, Sydnor H. Walker, and assorted local clergy.

Folder 56-82

1925

Folder 83

Folder number not used

1926

Major topics are the offer of the presidency of the University of Oregon to University of North Carolina president, H. W. Chase; studies in progress at the IRSS, especially studies of Negroes financed by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial; articles by Odum on Negro folksongs for The Country Gentleman; buying and selling of prize Jersey cows; finding someone to deliver the annual Weil lectures; the North Carolina conference of social service, "North Carolina's Social Deficit"; and the Henry Holt American Social Science Series. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, E. H. Taylor, Frank A. Daly, W. C. Jackson, Moore C. Tussey, and Leonard Outhwaite. Also several letters each from H. L. Mencken, Jesse Steiner, Gerald Johnson, Sydnor Walker, Julia C. Harris, H. W. Chase, Dr. A. A. McGeachy, Rev. William P. McCorkle, Rev. Thomas F. Opie, George W. Ochs Oakes, Henry N. MacCracken, William E. Spaulding, W. W. Alexander, Henry W. Thurston, C. A. Madison, F. A. Sondley, N. E. Mullen, T. S. Cooper, Louis Round Wilson, Kate Burr Johnson, Loring A. Schuler.

Folder 84-120

1926

1927

Major topics are financing and staffing of School of Public Welfare and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and publication of various manuscripts by Odum with Henry Holt, Bobbs-Merrill, and Houghton-Mifflin publishing houses. Books involved are American Masters of Social Science (Henry Holt, 1927); Man's Quest for Social Guidance (Henry Holt, 1927); Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (Bobbs-Merrill, 1928). Odum edited a social science series for Henry Holt, the first volume of which appeared in 1927. Lesser topics are Odum's prize Jersey herd; activities of the Interracial Commission; and conferences and projects related to public welfare and the social sciences. Major correspondents: Jesse Steiner, William E. Spaulding, C. A. Madison, T. S. Cooper, D. L. Chambers, Moore C. Tussey, W. W. Alexander, Sydnor Walker. There are several letters each from Worth M. Tippy, Harry Elmer Barnes, Julia C. Harris, Louis R. Wilson, Beardsley Ruml, F. A. Daly, H. W. Chase, Gerald Johnson, Henry W. Thurston, William F. Ogburn, Paul Blanshard, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Jesse Jones, and Broadus Mitchell.

Folder 121-156

1927

1928

Bulk of correspondence is January-June; Odum was on leave for the rest of the year. He traveled throughout the South, gathering material for a book, and apparently did not keep copies of the letters he wrote. Major topics of correspondence include: the publication and promotion of Odum's Rainbow Round My Shoulder; the social science series Odum was editing for Henry Holt; development of the University of North Carolina's social science program--schools of public welfare and sociology, the Journal of Social Forces, and IRSS; the Social Science Research Council's study of Negro culture on St. Helena Island, SC, run by T. J. Woofter, Jr.; correspondence with bankers, newspaper editors, merchants, and others asking them for case studies of cotton farmers for an IRSS study by Rupert Vance, "Human Factors in Cotton Industry"; and some correspondence concerning J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton's attempt to start a collection of resource materials on the South (now the Southern Historical Collection). Also included are Odum's memoranda on various departments, and a list of prominent Negro leaders in the South, 1 February 1928. Major correspondents: Richard H. Thornton, D. L. Chambers, W. W. Alexander, William F. Ogburn, C. A. Madison, Gerald Johnson, Jesse F. Steiner, Julia C. Harris, L. L. Bernard, H. W. Chase, H. L. Mencken, Anne Johnston, Herschel Brickell. Also letters from George Foster Peabody, Frederic A. Ogg, Harold G. Moulton, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, W. T. Couch, Thomas Jesse Jones, Robert S. Lynd, Louis R. Wilson, Aaron B. Bernard, Lorine Bruette, Beardsley Ruml, Henry W. Thurston, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, Daniel L. Grant, Worth M. Tippy, Broadus Mitchell, T. J. Woofter, Jr., George Shively, Sydnor H. Walker, W. Bedford Moore, Jr.

Folder 157-182

1928

Folder number 181 not used

1929

Major topics are procuring funds to publish Charles S. Johnson's study of the Negro in America, arising out of the National Interracial Conference; publication matters with Bobbs-Merrill and Henry Holt and Co.; problems of financing, staffing, and organizing the schools of social sciences at the University of North Carolina; and various committees and conferences in which Odum participated. Chief correspondents: Franklin H. Giddings, William F. Ogburn, C. A. Madison, Sydnor H. Walker, French Strother, Gerald Johnson, Richard H. Thornton, Herschel Brickell, W. W. Alexander, Robert S. Lynd, Anne Johnston, President H. W. Chase, and Mary Van Kleeck. Also letters from Jesse Steiner, Beardsley Ruml, H. L. Mencken, Oswald Garrison Villard, Worth M. Tippy, W. T. Couch, Edmund E. Day, D. L. Chambers, and 2 letters from Wilbur J. Cash - one a 5 1/2 page typed letter discussing Cash's proposed book, 13 November 1929.

Folder 183-199

1929

1930

Odum was at the forefront of activities in diverse areas. Those with most correspondence are the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, of which Odum was the first southern president; President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends, of which Odum was assistant director; and the organization of the Southern Regional section of the Social Science Research Council. Also correspondence with Henry Holt and Bobbs-Merrill about An American Epoch and Cold Blue Moon; and some describing Mississippi Governor Bilbo's abrupt dismissal of approximately 50 members of the faculty and administrative staff of the University of Mississippi. Major correspondents: William F. Ogburn, Herschell Brickell, Robert S. Lynd, Sydnor Walker, W. W. Alexander, D. L. Chambers, Edward Eyre Hunt, Edwin B. Wilson. Also several letters each from French Strother, Franklin H. Giddings, Edmund E. Day, Wilson Gee, Arnold Bennett Hall, Anne Johnston, Jesse Steiner, Edwin R. Embree, Gerald Johnson, Benjamin B. Kendrick, President H. W. Chase, Frank Porter Graham, Maurice J. Karpf, Thomas D. Eliot, O. Max Gardner, Louis Round Wilson, Ernest R. Burgess, Malcolm Eilley, Arthur M. Schlesinger, John B. Andrews, Herbert Blumer, George Ross Pou, Leroy E. Bowman, L. L. Bernard, Edwin B. Bridges, Edward W. Ruggles, George S. Counts, Sidney P. Simpson, George Foster Peabody, George Ford Milton.

Folder 200-246

1930

1931

Odum spent most of this year traveling and working on committees. Correspondence deals with sales of books; the President's Research Committee on Social Trends; the social science division of the Chicago World's Fair; the Southern Committee for the Study of Lynching; and the Rockefeller Foundation financing for the North Carolina Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Correspondents include: Edmund E. Day, William F. Ogburn, Edward Eyre Hunt, Herschel Brickell, Richard Thornton, D. L. Chambers, H. W. Chase, W. W. Alexander, Gerald Johnson, Sidney Simpson, Frank Porter Graham, George Fort Milton, Arthur Raper, Louis Round Wilson, Benjamin Kendrick, Sydnor H. Walker, Walter W. Pettit, H. L. Mencken, Robert S. Lynd, R. B. Eleazer, Rudolf A. Clemen, Inez G. Richardson, Harlean James.

Folder 247-263

1931

1932

Correspondence chiefly concerns Odum's three main projects: the President's Research Committee on Social Trends; exhibits for the social science division of "A Century of Progress"; and the study by the Southern Commission for the Study of Lynching. Also correspondence with Bobbs-Merrill and Henry Holt, and with friends concerning the University of Mississippi and its political involvements. Major correspondents: Benjamin B. Kendrick, W. W. Alexander, Sydnor H. Walker, William F. Ogburn, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jackson Davis, Robert T. Crane, Louis R. Wilson. Odum also corresponded with R. A. Clemen, Edmund E. Day, H. W. Chase, Douglas Griesemer, Frank P. Graham, Arhtur Raper, Helen Bennett, Herschel Brickell, Homer N. Calver, C. A. Madison, Elizabeth Burchenal, Charles W. Fitch, William A. Wiltberger, S. C. Gilfillan, H. L. Mencken, W. C. Jackson, Rudolf Modley, Edwin B. Wilson, Lucy Morgan, Gertrude Springer, N. B. Bond, O. Max Gardner, R. H. Ruffner, Jesse Daniel Ames, W. Kerr Scott.

Folder 264-301

1932

1933

Correspondence revolves around Odum's social welfare projects and committees, his eugenics experiments with his Jersey herd, dealings with publishers, and his departments at the University of North Carolina. Projects and committees include the organization of a study of the social implications involved in the Tennessee River Basin; organization of a Southern Regional Study; activities of the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation; and the North Carolina Civil Works Administration. Chief correspondents: Robert T. Crane, Benjamin B. Kendrick, W. W. Alexander, L. R. Reynolds, N. C. Newbold, George Fort Milton, Alan C. Collins, Louis Round Wilson, Jackson Davis, Sydnor Walker. Also letters to and from Stacy May, Harry F. Comer, L. H. Duncan, W. A. Stanbury, Arhtur Raper, W. Kerr Scott, Donald Slesinger, Helen R. Bryan, R. H. Ruffner, R. B. Eleazer, Margaret Sanger, O. J. Elder, Clarence Heer, J. A. Cotton, Jesse Steiner, Fred W. Powell, D. St. Pierre Du Bose, Lynn Copeland, Harry L. Hopkins, Charles W. Fitch, C. C. Spaulding, William Moore, Norman Y. Chambliss, several high school principals around the state, and the following members of the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, concerning the "Tuscaloosa case" (a lynching): Sidney Howard, Lewis Mumford, Burton Rascoe, George S. Counts, Waldo Frank, W. E. Sapir, Malcolm Cowley, and Robert Morse Lovett.

Folder 302-336

1933

1934

Correspondence primarily concerns the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation, of which Odum was chair. Also represented are Odum's regional study of the South; and his confrontation with Benjamin Kendrick, Donald Davidson, and the "Nashville Group" on differing views of sectionalism and southernism. Also covered are the reorganization of the history, public administration, and political science departments at the University of North Carolina; Odum's Jersey herd; and dealings with publishers. Major correspondents: Sydnor Walker, W. W. Alexander, Benjamin B. Kendrick, L. R. Reynolds, Jackson Davis, N. C. Newbold, Louis Round Wilson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edmund E. Day, and Robert T. Crane. Other correspondents include C. C. Spaulding, George Fort Milton, Harry L. Hopkins, Paul and Arthur Kellog, W. Kerr Scott, H. L. Mencken, David St Pierre Du Bose, Helen M. Bennett, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, J. A. Cotton, Alan C. Collins, Charles W. Eliot, Frank P. Graham, Lance G. E. Jones, F. W. Barber, William Moore, R. H. Ruffner, Donald Davidson, John D. Wade, Lynn Copeland, Stacy May, Carl Sauer, J. A. Arey, John Dewey, Bishop Paul B. Kern, Paul Green, Howard E. Jensen.

Folder 337-361

1934

1935

The major topic is the state interracial commission. Other topics include Odum's manuscript on southern regionalism, and the organization, staffing, and financing of Odum's various University of North Carolina departments. Major correspondents: L. R. Reynolds, N. C. Newbold, Sydnor Walker, Louis R. Wilson, Jackson Davis, T. J. Wilson, and Frank P. Graham. Also letters to and from W. W. Alexander, C. C. Spaulding, M. T. Van Hecke, Albert Coates, Carl Sauer, Rev. E. McNeill Poteat, Jr., J. C. B. Ehringhaus, George Fort Milton, Richard Thornton, Margaret M. Edwards, H. W. Chase, Benjamin B. Kendrick, Stacy May, W. C. Jackson, Edmund E. Day, R. Y. Winters, and Richard Shryock.

Folder 362-385

1935

1936

During this year, Odum taught second semester at the University of Illinois, withdrew as editor of Henry Holt's Social Science Series, published his work on southern regions, and spoke at various conferences around the country. Major topics of correspondence include his book, Southern Regions; a summer institute on Southern Regional Development and the Social Sciences, held at the University of North Carolina in June; a southeast regional planning group with federal and state representation; and interracial commission activities. Chief correspondents: Gerald Johnson (of special note is a 3 page typed letter, 15 June 1936, to Odum about Frank P. Graham), Donald Young, L. R. Reynolds, Jackson Davis, and Sydnor Walker. Other correspondents include Robert T. Crane, Louis R. Wilson, C. C. Spaulding, N. C. Newbold, Ernest R. Groves, Stacy May, Edmund E. Day, Richard Shryock, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, V. E. Daniel, Edwin R. Embree, Louis D. Brandeis, Lucy R. Mason, David E. Lilienthal, E. S. Draper, D. Clay Lilly, Paul Webbink, A. W. McAlister, Mrs. Spears Hicks.

Folder 386-404

1936

1937

During 1937, Odum was elected president of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and member and trustee of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. He spent spring semester as visiting professor at the University of Illinois. Topics include activities of the state and regional interracial commissions; programs and financing of the IRSS; planning a North Carolina State Conference for Social Service; the Southern Regional Committee examination of region-wide coordination of research and planning; the consolidation of the University of North Carolina system; Odum and Moore's subregional study called American Regionalism; and cooperation between the University of North Carolina and Duke University. The General Education Board replaced the Rockefeller as chief financier of Odum's University of North Carolina programs. Major correspondents: Jackson Davis, Harry E. Moore, L. R. Reynolds, Frank P. Graham, Edwin Embree, Gerald Johnson, Albert R. Mann. Other correspondents include Edith Abbott, Samuel T. Emory, Edmund E. Day, Jonathan Daniels, H. F. Jenkins, Martha Elizabeth Edwards, Charles W. Eliot, Charles A. Ellwood, George Brett, Jr., W. W. Alexander, Donald Young, T. C. Morehouse, O. C. Carmichael, Wilson Gee, R. Hayne King, Leo M. Favrot, W. C. Jackson, Gertrude Weil, Clyde R. Hoey, George W. Coan, Jr., Capus Waynick, Hugh MacRae, C. C. Spaulding, Mrs. W. T. Bost, Mrs. W. B. Aycock, Chloris Kellum, John E. Pomfret, A. W. McAlister, John S. Bradway, Harvey Couch, H. C. Nixon, B. O. Williams, Edgar B. Stern Lewis Mumford, John Temple Graves II, Virginius Dabney, Richard Thornton.

Folder 405-424

1937

1938

During 1938, Odum corresponded with members of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the General Education Board, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. There are also letters relating to publication of American Regionalism. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, O. C. Carmichael, Emily H. Clay, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Mark Etheridge, Leo M. Favrot, Frank P. Graham, Albert R. Mann, Francis Pickens Miller, T. C. Morehouse, Arthur Raper, George M. Reynolds, Sydnor H. Walker.

Folder 425-450

1938

1939

During 1939, Odum corresponded with members of the Council of Interracial Cooperation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the General Education Board, Julius Rosenwald Fund, and many publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, O. C. Carmichael, Emily C. Cly, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Mark Etheridge, Walter Lippmann, Gilbert Loveland, Albert R. Mann, Francis Pickens Miller, Stanislav Rembski, George M. Reynolds, Lillian E. Smith, Sydnor H. Walker, W. D. Weatherford, and Louis Round Wilson.

Folder 451-472??

1939

1940

During 1940, Odum corresponded with members of the Council on Interracial Cooperation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the General Education Board, the University of North Carolina faculty, and publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, W. W. Brierley, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, E. S. Draper, Wilson Gee, Gordon Gray, Gilbert Loveland, Arthur Raper, Syndor H. Walker, W. D. Weatherford, and Louis Round Wilson.

Folder 473-497

1940

1941

During 1941, Odum corresponded with members of the Carnegie Corporation, the General Education Board, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Council on Interracial Cooperation, the National Commission of Christians and Jews, and publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, Arthur G. Askey, W. W. Brierley, O. C. Carmichael, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, A. W. Gottschall, Walter A. Jessup, Albert R. Mann, A. J. Putnam, Tom J. Wilson.

Folder 498-512

1941

1942

During 1942, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Carnegie Corporation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Council on Interracial Cooperation, University faculty members, and publishers. Topics include arrangement of meetings, public lectures, distribution of funds, race relations, and the significance of teaching sociology in American life. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Jackson Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois (1 letter), Edwin R. Embree, Wilson Gee, Frank P. Graham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, Lillian E. Smith, Jesse E. Steiner, Louis Round Wilson, Tom C. Wilson.

Folder 513-530

1942

1943

During 1943, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Southern Regional Council, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include Jersey cattle breeding, race relations, sociological publications, Southern improvements and development, Gordon Blackwell, and University of North Carolina faculty affairs during World War II. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Frank P. Graham, Robert B. House, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, H. S. Latham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, T. C. Morehouse, Joseph H. Willits, Louis Round Wilson.

Folder 531-548

1943

1944

During 1944, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Southern Regional Council, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, African-American advances and organizations, Southern improvements, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and Jersey cattle. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Frank P. Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy Johnson, H. S. Latham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, T. C. Morehouse, and Henry Estill Moore.

Folder 549-566

1944

1945-1946

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, Southern improvements, sociological publications, Jersey cattle, and Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Emily C. Clay, Virginius Dabney, Frank P. Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy Johnson, Henry B. McCurdy, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, George S. Mitchell, C. A. Madison, T. C. Morehouse, and Harry S. Truman (1 letter, 1945).

Folder 563(?)-578

1945-1946

1947-1948

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Major correspondents: Edwin R. Embree, Dana H. Ferrin, Frank Porter Graham, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy S. Johnson, Hugh McCurdy, James Putnam, Flora M. Rhind, W. Kerr Scott, and Paul D. Williams.

Folder 579-591

1947-1948

1949-1951

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Southern Regional Council, the Ford Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, sociological publications, Southern improvements, Jersey cattle, reforms in North Carolina, and African-American students at the University of North Carolina. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Frank P. Graham, Robert B. House, Gerald W. Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, George S. Mitchell, William F. Ogburn, W. Kerr Scott, Robert L. Straker, and Paul D. Williams.

Folder 592-604

1949-1951

1952-1953

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include Jersey cattle, race relations, the O. Max Gardner Award, Southern improvements, and academic freedom. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Gordon Gray, Robert B. House, Robert M. Hutchins, Gerald W. Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, Henry Allen Moe, W. Kerr Scott, Robert L. Straker, William B. Umstead, and Marion A. Walker.

Folder 605-620

1952-1953

1954-1967

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, the Southern Regional Council, and publishers. Odum died in 1954; much of the correspondence around the time of his death was handled by Katherine Jocher and Marjorie Tallant. Topics include race relations, integration, Odum's illness and death, and a memorial fund established in Odum's honor. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Gordon Gray, Katherine Jocher, Robert B. House, Ralph McGill, Henry Allen Moe, The Odum family, Majorie Tallant, and William B. Umstead.

Folder 621-624

1954-1967

Folder 625

Undated

Series 2. Speeches and Writings, 1919-1954.

About 300 items.

Subseries 2.1. Speeches, 1919-1954.

About 75 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Speeches, flyers, lecture notes, drafts, programs, and other related material presented by H. W. Odum. Topics include regionalism, education, race relations, planning, the social sciences, and Southern development and growth. Unless otherwise stated all copies of the speeches are typed, carbon copies.

Folder 626

"The New Southern Attitude," speech at NAACP meeting, circa 1919

"Part of the opening address of the first official meeting of The Educational Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South," 4-6 March 1919, by H. W. Odum ? (speech)

Third Annual Institute of Public Welfare, 10-21 July 1923 (preliminary program only)

University of North Carolina University Lectures, 1 Nov. 1926 (program only)

Southern Book Exposition, 18 March 1929 (program only)

Folder 627

Presidential Address of the American Sociological Society, 30 Dec. 1930 (flyer only)

Education and Racial Adjustment: "Sociology and Race," 21 July 1931 (program only)

Institute of Public Affairs, "A Regional Approach to Social Planning," 26 July 1934 (program only)

"A More Abundant Life Through Better Race Relations," Oct. 1934 (typed copy of excerpts of talk)

Folder 628

Problems of the Cotton Economy: "Cotton and Diversification," 8 March 1935 (published speech with discussion)

The Alpha of Virginia Phi Beta Kappa, 5 Dec. 1935 (program only)

"Comments for the Executive Committee of Association of Schools of Social Work," 8 June 1936 (speech)

Preliminary Program of the First National Conference on Educational Broadcasting, "Implications of Radio as a Social and Educational Phenomenon," 11 Dec. 1936 (program only)

Nineteenth Triennial Council the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, "Research and Reality," 9 Sept. 1937 (program only)

Twentieth Annual Meeting of the American Dieletic Association, "Sources of New Vitality for the People," 18 Oct. 1937 (program only)

Folder 629

"The Promise of Graduate and Research Work in the South," 4 Feb. 1938 (speech and program)

Regional Sociology, 8, 17 Feb. 1938 (program)

Suggested range of discussion topics for the University Broadcasting Council, 4 Sept. 1938 (speech)

"Social Sciences in the College Curriculum," 21 October 1938 (speech and program)

"Toward a Balanced Regional and National Economy," 17 Nov. 1938 (speech and program)

"The Promise and Prospect of the South," 2 Dec. 1938 (speech)

Folder 630

"The South as Testing Ground for the Regional Approach to Public Health and Public Welfare," 13 Feb. 1939 (speech and program)

Untitled speech on American Regionalism, 25 March 1939 (typed copy with handwritten margin notes)

"Facing Our Social Problems," 31 March 1939 (copy, revised copy of the speech, and program)

"Notes and Abstract Basic to `Cultural Elements Differentiating the South from Other Regions," 17 April 1939

"Next Steps in Patterns of Resource Utilization in the South," 18 April 1939

Folder 631

"Presentation for Forum Discussion on 'American Folk Songs in Music Education'" 7-9 June 1939

"Of a Closer Cooperation Between the Physical Sciences and the Social Sciences," 22 June 1939 (two copies of speech draft)

"Social Frontiers," 7-8 July 1939 (speech, program, and flyer)

Folder 632

"The South at Its Best," 5 April 1940 (copy of speech)

"Education in the Secondary Schools of the South," 10 April 1940 (speech and abstract of discussion)

Working ? concerning speeches, April-May 1940 Baccalaureate Address, Mississippi State College for Women, 3 June 1940 (only two commencement programs)

"The Relation of Church and State in the United States," 4 Dec. 1940 (speech)

"Southern Resources and Potentialities," 5 Dec. 1940 (speech)

"The Sociologist Looks at Contemporary Society," 9 Dec. 1940 (copy of notes)

"The Flora" 1940? (speech)

Folder 633

"Abstract of Talk on Regional Planning," 18 Feb. 1941 (abstract)

"The Philosophy of Regionalism," 21 April 1941(announcement only)

"Agricultural Trend of the Nation and the Negroes' Part in the Trend," 5 Sept. 1941 (program only)

"How Can the Schools Meet the Needs of the Children and Community in this Present Emergency," 19 Feb. 1942 (program only)

"For Davidson speech," Feb. 1942 (speech)

A Sociologist Looks at Contemporary Civilization, Lecture II, "America at Work: Symbol and Reality," 29 April 1942 (speech and program)

"A Sociological Approach to Regionalism," 1 May 1942 (program only)

Lecture III, "American Defense Strategy: Maintaining Balance Between Human Culture and War-Time Civilization," 18 May 1942 (speech and program)

Address at dinner at University of Washington, 22 May 1942 (program only)

"A Philosophy in the Crisis" 26 May 1942 (flyer only)

Folder 634

"Presenting the Chancellors of the University," 18 Feb. 1944 (speech)

"Social Morale in an Age of Science," 4 Dec. 1945 (speech)

"Southern Regions of the United States: A Regional Approach to National Crisis," 29 Oct. 1948 (speech)

Folder 635

"Literature of the South: an exchange of views," 21 April 1950 (printed copy of speech, 1953)

"The Social and Non-Political Implications of Governor Scott's Program," 19 Sept. 1951 (typed copy of speech)

"The Social Scientist Looks at Public Health," 18 March 1952 (speech)

Folder 636

"Symbol and Reality of Consolidation," 22 March 1953 (printed and typed copy of speech, and dinner eating list for the O. Max Gardner Award presentation)

"A Clear Vision for North Carolina," 5 May 1953 (speech and program)

"The State University: Its Renewal and Mission," circa 1953 (speech)

[Untitled], 1 May 1954 (speech)

Subseries 2.2. Writings, 1913-1954

About 225 items.

Arrangement: Minor writings arranged chronologically and substantial writings arranged alphabetically by title.

Articles, book drafts, research notes, and related materials which appear to be written or compiled by Odum for publication purposes. This subseries is divided into two sections. The first section contains minor writings arranged in chronological order. The second section is material related to books and monographs penned by Odum. Items of note in the second section include large monograph drafts which may have never been published, such as "American Picture" and "American Road," or were published in part under another title. Also noteworthy, are the clippings, pictures, and notes concerning "White Sands of Bethlehem." This novel was an ongoing project for Odum, from 1925 until his death, that never reached the presses.

Folder 637

Ballads Collected in Avery Co., N.C., 1917-1918

Folder 638

Ballads Collected, 1920s

Folder 639-655

Minor publications and writings, 1913-1954

Folder 656-657

Minor notes and writings, undated

Folder 658-661

Chapters I, II, IV and "Last Chapter," n.d.

Folder 662

Research notes on the American Indian, n.d.

Folder 663

Folk songs collected, n.d.

Folder 664

Collected ghost and slave stories, n.d.

Folder 665

"Negro Sings A New Heaven," Odumand Jochen, n.d.

Folder 666

Research notes on Negro spirituals?, n.d.

Folder 667

"On understanding the Negro:...," n.d.

Folder 668

"Examples of Integration acceptable," n.d.

Folder 669

"Segregation...," n.d.

Folder 670

Research notes and writings on ecology, n.d.

Folder 671

Odum family writings, n.d.

Folder 672

"Agencies Rendering Public Service in the Sub-regional Laboratory," 1941

Folder 673

Alabama Past and Future, [?] published 1941

Folder 674-675

American Democracy Anew, [?] published 1940

Folder 676-680

American Epoch

Folder 681-692

"American Picture," 1933, 1935

Folder 693-714

American Regionalism, 1936-1938

Folder 715-716

"American Road," 1938, 1942

Folder 717

"Black Rainbow," 1934?

Folder 718-721

Cold Blue Moon, 1930

Folder 722-723

"Mid-Century South," circa 1950-1954

Folder 724

"Proceedings of the first State of the University Conference...," 1953

Folder 725

"Quantitative"

Folder 726

"Random Reaches, Conflict of aspirations with limitations of self," beginning Sept. 29, 1923

Folder 727

"Science and Technology at Work," circa 1954

Folder 728

"Southern Advance in Public Education and Public Welfare"

Folder 729

Southern Regions of the United States, 1934-1936

Folder 730

Southern Regions of the United States, 20 Years After, 1949

Folder 731

Social and Mental Traits of the Negro, [?] published 1910

Folder 732

"Town Regional Planning"

Folder 733

"On Trying to Analyze Southern Race Tensions...," 1943

Folder 734

The Way of the South, [?] published 1947

Folder 735-743

"White Sands of Bethlehem," circa 1925-1954

Series 3. Organizational Material, circa 1920-1954.

About 400 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by organization.

Flyers, minutes, budget reports, agendas, and related materials concerning the various organizational activities of Odum. These items reflect Odum's interest in social work, race relations, and education. Of special note are the confidential reports on lynching found in the papers of the Commission on Interracial Co-operation (folders 748-755) and the Southern Regional Council (folder 808). Items related to Odum and Jersey cattle breeding may be found in Series 4 (folders 818-819).

Folder 743-744

A Century of Progress

Folder 745-747

Commission on Interracccial Co-operation, 1930-1942

Folder 748-755

CIC - lynching case studies, 1930-1933

Folder 756

Meetings on Cotton in the South

Folder 757

Crime and Law Enforcement Organizations

Folder 758

Education Organizations (see folders 794-795)

Folder 759

Emergency Relief Administration material

Folder 760-761

Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1923-1929

Folder 762

Ford Foundation: self study at the University of North Carolina

Folder 763

Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund

Folder 764-769

Institute for Research in Social Science, 1924-1938

Folder 770-775

Institute of Southern Regional Development, June 1936

Folder 776

Interim Southeastern Regionwide Advisory Committee

Folder 777

National Conference of Social Work

Folder 778

North Carolina Commission on Interracial Co-operation

Folder 779-780

North Carolina Conference for Social Service

Folder 781

North Carolina organizations and committees

Folder 782

North Carolina organizations on race relations and education

Folder 783

North Carolina Planning Board

Folder 784

North Carolina-Virginia Interracial Commissions

Folder 785-786

Other organizations and committees, 1925-1953

Folder 787

Peabody School Groups, 1935-1936

Folder 788

Planning committees of Chapel Hill, N.C.

Folder 789

Programs on Psychiatric Sociology, March 1930

Folder 790-793

President's Research Committee on Social Trends, 1929-1932

Folder 794-795

Race and education organizations

Folder 796-797

Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1925, 1937-1943

Folder 798-800

Round Table on Regionalism, July 1931

Folder 801

Social Science organizations

Folder 802-804

Social Science Research Council

Folder 805

Social work organizations

Folder 806

Southern development organizations

Folder 807-808

Southern Regional Council, 1943-195?

Folder 809

University of North Carolina School of Public Administration

Folder 810-811

University of North Carolina School of Public Welfare

Folder 812

University of North Carolina social work organizations

Folder 813

Women's organizations

Series 4. Materials About H. W. Odum and His Work, circa 1920-1982.

About 700 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

Photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers, articles, clippings, and announcements related to the numerous activities of H. W. Odum. The majority of this material concerns Odum's publications with the reviews arranged generally by order of the book reviewed. Noteworthy items include the death notices which give a great deal of information on Odum's accomplishements.

Folder 814-815

Material about H. W. Odum and his work, 1910-1954

Folder 816

Article by G. W. Johnson on H. W. Odum

Folder 817

Secretaries of the Red Cross Summer Institute, 1922

Folder 818-819

Jersey cattle

Folder 820-826

Reviews of Odum's work

Folder 827

Publisher's announcements of Odum's book

Folder 828

Material on Odum and H. L. Mencken

Folder 829

Material on Odum's influence

Folder 830-831

Death notices on H. W. Odum

Series 5. Other Material, circa 1922-1955.

About 650 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

Various items including contracts with publishing houses, class syllabi, photocopies of newspaper clippings, awards, and membership certificates concerning H. W. Odum, his family friends, and employees. Although most of the material is related to Odum's numerous interests. The items in folders 836-840 are a representative sample of material saved by Odum, but thought not for the intention of using them as sources for publication.

Folder 832

Printed items with marginal notes by H. W. Odum

Folder 833-834

Financial and legal items

Folder 835

Sociology classes, 1938-1954

Folder 836

Negro and race, circa 1943-1953

Folder 837

Academic freedom

Folder 839

Lynching clippings

Folder 840

General material

Folder 841

University of North Carolina and segregation

Folder 842

Material on the Odum family, friends, and employees

Folder 843-849

Awards, honors, memberships of H. W. Odum before and after death

Series 6. Pictures, circa 1915-1954.

About 50 items.

Pictures related to Odum's unfinished novel, "White Sands of Bethlehem," and of Odum in various settings. The images concerning the novel include Afro-Americans, their homes and churches, as well as whites in rural settings. The photos appear to have been taken from 1915 to 1935. The other pictures are portrait photographs of Odum, and show him at work or with his family. For relevant material related to the photos of Red Cross (P-3167-A/458-472) see folder 817.

Folder P-3167-A/421-448

"White Sands of Bethlehem"

Folder P-3167-A/449-472

Other pictures

Additions after 1990

Additions of February 1991 (Acc. 91039) and June 1993 (Acc. 93093).

About 45,000 items.

Arrangement: Folder labels appear largely as assigned by Odum. There has been some checking of contents against folder labels, but, because materials are largely unprocessed, researchers should be aware that folder labels may not always comprehensively reflect folder contents. Researchers should also be aware that dates are often duplicated from folder to folder and that letters to and from correspondents with individual folders may appear in general alphabetical folders (e.g., there will be Burr Blackburn letters in the 1924 Burr Blackburn folder, but there may be additional Burr Blackburn letters in the 1924 B: General folder.)

Box 17

1920:

"Constructive Ventures in Government"

Criminal mental hygiene

Hoake, R. L.

Johnson, Mrs. Clarence

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Mitchell, Samuel C.

Social Welfare Conference, Fayetteville, N.C.

Social Welfare Conference, New Bern, N.C.

State Conference for Social Service

United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board

Woofter, T. J.

1920-1921:

American Sociological Society

"Community and Government": Reviews and comments

Miscellaneous

Personal correspondence of Howard Washington Odum

Pruitt, Annie: Questionnaries about school and home agencies in North Carolina

Requests for visits with or by Odum

Social Welfare Conference: Salisbury, N.C.

University of North Carolina: Odum's correspondence with and about former students

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare

1920-1922:

American Red Cross

Boy Scouts of America

County Superintendents of Public Welfare, North Carolina

New York School of Social Work

The Survey: New York, N.Y.

University of North Carolina: Extension Service

1920-1924:

Child welfare

1921:

Addresses and articles by Howard Washington Odum: Correspondence

American Red Cross: Appropriations

Carolina Journal

Chapel Hill Community Club

City departments of public welfare: Nationwide

Civics for North Carolina schools

National Country Life Conference, New Orleans

North Carolina and American Assoication of Public Officials of Charity and Correction

Public Officials' Conference, Jacksonville

Publishing price quotations

Regional Conference on Town and County Administrators (4 folders)

Rural delinquency

Southern Cooperative League Conference, Chattanooga

University of North Carolina: Adult Conferences

University of North Carolina: Sociological curriculum

University of North Carolina: Summer Institute for Public Welfare: Prospective students

University of North Carolina: Summer Institute for Public Welfare

University of North Carolina: Teaching fellowships

United States Department of Public Welfare

University farm

Box 18

1921-1922:

American Red Cross

Appointments with Howard Washington Odum

C: General

Chapel Hill Parent-Teacher Association

Conference on Town and County Administration, Chapel Hill

National Municipal League

North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs

North Carolina State Commissioner of Public Welfare

North Carolina State Department of Charities and Public Welfare

Personal correspondence of Howard Washington Odum

Public health nurses

South Carolina Department of Public Welfare

University of North Carolina: Applications for enrollment

University of North Carolina: Institutes of Public Welfare: Projects

University of North Carolina: Prospective students: Fall

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Positions open

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Prospective students

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Publicity

University of North Carolina: Summer session and special Institutes of Public Welfare

University of North Carolina: Woodrow Wilson Tribute Fund

1921-1924:

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare

1921-1925:

Journal of Social Forces: Contributing editor: Gillin, John L.

1922:

Boys' Home Association of Jacksonville, Florida

Chambers of commerce

Chapel Hill

College farms

Community service

Departments of public welfare in the South

Emory University

Florida State Conference of Social Work

Handbook of North Carolina Social Laws and Agencies

New York School of Social Work

North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction Schools

State Association of County Commissioners

The Survey

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: North Carolina survey

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Placement bureau

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Requests for information

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Visiting teachers

Town and County Conference

United States Veterans' Bureau

Virginia Department of Public Works

1922-1923:

Chapel Hill Town Club

Journal of Social Forces (2 folders)

1922-1924:

Journal of Social Forces (2 folders)

M: General

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Students

1922-1925:

Journal of Social Forces: Contributing editor: Burgess, Ernest W.

1923:

American Red Cross

Board of Missions, M.E. Church South

City Managers' Confederation

Journal of Social Forces: Alabama conference

Journal of Social Forces: Editors

Journal of Social Forces: Publicity

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare

Box 19

1923-1924:

A: General

B: General (2 folders)

B,C: General

Blackburn, Burr

C: General (2 folders)

County Superintendents of Public Welfare, North Carolina

D: General

E: General

Education, Welfare

F: General

Florida State Conference of Social Work

G: General

H: General (2 folders)

H,I: General

Hecht, George J.

I: General

J: General

Johnson, Guy B.

Journal of Social Forces #2

Journal of Social Forces #3

K: General

L: General

M: General

Mc: General

Miscellaneous

N: General

National Conference on Social Work: Folks, Homer

O: General

Box 20

1923-1924:

P: General

Q: General

Q,R: General

R: General

Russell Sage Foundation

S: General

Sanders, Wiley B.

Southern Regional Child Welfare Conference, Savannah, GA

T: General

U: General

V: General

W: General (3 folders)

Y: General

1923-1925:

Commonwealth Fund

Johnson, Kate Burt

1923-1927:

Steiner, Jesse F.

1924:

A: General

B: General

Blackburn, Berr

Bristel, L. N.

Carroll, Mollie R.

Conference of Teachers of Social Science, North Carolina

Ford, James

Hamilton, Walton H.

Johnson, Glenn

Journal of Social Forces

Kimball, W. R.

Logan George B.

National Conference of Social Work: Meeting place, etc.

O,P: General

Q: General

Rand, Fart E.

S: General

Schools of Social Work: Directory of

Social-industrial relationships

Social science research

Social Science Research Institute: Applications for secretary

Southern Writers' Group

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Applications for positions

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Fellowships

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Student applications

T: General

Taylor, Carl C.

U: General

V: General

W: General

Weatherford, W. D.

Wyckoff, G. P.

1924-1925:

A: General

American Red Cross

B: General (2 folders)

Bowman, LeRoy E.

Burchard, Edward L.

1924-1925:

C: General

Commonwealth Fund

Conference of Southern Social Science Teachers (2 folders)

D: General

E: General

F: General

G: General (2 folders)

H: General (2 folders)

Hall, G. Stanley

J: General

Journal of Social Forces #5 (2 folders)

Journal of Social Forces: Advertising

Journal of Social Forces: Reprints

K: General

L: General

M: General

Mc: General

McKenzie, R. D.: Commercial Forces: Reprints

Miscellaneous (3 folders)

N: General

O: General

P: General

Public opinion questionnaires

R: General

S: General

Seeman Printery, Inc.

Southern deconstructionists

Southern Textile Social Service Association: Heiss, M. W.

Greensboro, N.C.

T: General

Box 22

1924-1925:

University of North Carolina: School of Social Welfare

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Applications

University of North Carolina: University sermons

V: General

W: General (2 folders)

Weil lectures

1924-1926:

Commonweath Fund: Farrand, Max

Conference of Teachers of Social Science: University of Virginia

D: General

Ku Klux Klan

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Stubbs, Frank B.

1924-1927:

Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial (2 folders)

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Cooperative fund

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Steiner, Jesse F.

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Steiner, Jesse F.: The Memorial

1924-1928:

P: General

1925:

A: General

American Library Association

B: General

Brown, Roy M.

C: General

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Conferences: General

Curtis Publishing Company: The Country Gentleman: General

D: General

Dartmouth

Davis, Jerome: Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Educational challenge

F: General

Giddings, F. H.: The Scientific Study of Human Society: Comments

Johnson, Kate Burr

Journal of Social Forces

Journal of Social Forces: Referendum

Journal of Social Forces: Reprints

Keller, A. G.

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Ford, Guy B.

Leonard, E. C.

Leonard, Louise: Industrial secretary

Majette, Vera

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Moore, Harry H.

N: General

National Conference of Social Work

The Negro and His Song (2 folders)

Negro sketches

North Carolina Committee on Publications

Pound, Louise

Ravitch, Jessie

Reeves, Will R.

Seashore studies: General

Social patterns: Willey, M. M.

State Conference of Social Work: Wisconsin/South Carolina

Systems of public welfare

Box 23

1925:

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Faculty

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Prospective students

University of North Carolina: School of Religion

University of North Carolina: Sociology Department

University of North Carolina: University Club: Proposed

University of North Carolina: Welfare station

White, N. I.

White ballads #1

X,Y,Z: General

YWCA

YWCA Conference

Z: General

1925-1926:

A: General

Adams, E. C. L.

American Association of Social Workers

Arthur, J. D.

Babbit Boosters

Bean, Donald P.

Beaven, F. R.

Becker, Carl

C: General (2 folders)

Chapel Hill

Cleveland, F. A.

Commision on Interracial Cooperation

D: General

Dealey, J. Q.

E: General

F: General

Fitzgerald, Margaret: Recommendations

Giddings, F. H.

Goldenweiser, Alexander

H: General (2 folders)

Hamilton, Walton Hale

Hecht, Rosa Pringle

J: General

Johnson, Alvin

Journal of Social Forces

K: General

Kilpatrick, William H.

Lichtenberger, J. P.

M: General

Mecklin, John M.

Merriam, Charles E.

Miscellaneous

The Negro and His Song

Pruette, Lorine

Puckett, N. N.

R: General

Seashore studies: Meffessel, Milton

Social progress in the South

T: General (2 folders)

Tufts, James H.

Tussey, Moore C.

University of North Carolina: Extension Division

University of North Carolina: Investigations of millmen

University of North Carolina: School of Public Welfare: Finances: Miscellaneous

Box 24

1925-1926:

W: General

Walker, Sydnor H.

Williams and Wilkins: Rowe, George H.

Williams and Wilkins: Thomas, Charles C. (3 folders)

1925-1927:

A: General (2 folders)

American Yearbook

B: General (5 folders)

Barnes, Harry Elmer

Bain, Read