Location: National Archives at Atlanta, 5780 Jonesboro Rd., Morrow, GA 30260
Description: Records of the Northern District of Alabama, 1824-1970, divisions at Anniston, Birmingham, Florence, Gadsden Huntsville, Jasper, and Tuscaloosa, include records of cases involving the Enforcement Act of 1870 against members of the Ku Klux Klan. Records of the Middle District of Alabama, 1839-1969, divisions at Dothan, Montgomery, and Opelika, include records of a suit involving attacks on the Freedom Riders, who tested bus segregation practices by participating in an integrated bus ride through Alabama and Mississippi (United States v. U.S. Klans, Inc.). Records of the Northern District of Mississippi, 1838-1964, divisions at Aberdeen, Clarksdale, Greenville, and Oxford, include records of cases involving the Enforcement Act of 1870 and the Ku Klux Klan in northern Mississippi. Records of the Southern District of Mississippi, 1819-1966, divisions at Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, and Vicksburg, include records of civil rights cases, including some against members of the Ku Klux Klan. Records of the Eastern District of North Carolina, divisions at Elizabeth City (first held at Edenton), Fayetteville, New Bern, Raleigh, Washington, Wilmington, and Wilson, include records of cases involving the Enforcement Act of 1870 and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Records of the Southern District of Georgia, 1789-1979, divisions at Augusta, Brunswick, Dublin, Savannah, Swainsboro, and Waycross, include records of a World War I period equity suit, Jeffersonian v. West, in which Tom Watson's newspaper was denied second class mailing privileges under the Espionage Act because he used the paper to encourage draft evasion and oppose U.S. entry into the war. Records of the Northern District of Georgia, 1847-1978, divisions at Atlanta, Gainesville, Newnan, and Rome, include records of civil rights cases involving the desegregation of the Atlanta public schools and the Pickrick Restaurant, owned by future governor, Lester Maddox. Records of the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1852-1988, include approximately 3000 pages of court transcripts from the Federal Court in Knoxville for the various cases related to the desegregation of Clinton, TN, High School.
Reference:
Rachel L. Martin, "Overwhelming!!!!!!!!!" May 13, 2009, http://rachelmartin.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/riding-out-the-research-high/.
Websites with information:
http://friendsnas.org/education/S2_OriginalRecords_Atl/RG_Descriptions.pdf
[0808a] Frank M. Dixon Papers, 1924-1965, LPR33
Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Description: Frank Murray Dixon (1892-1965) served as the 40th Governor of Alabama from 1939 to 1943. The papers consist of correspondence, letters, telegrams, memoranda, advertisements, speeches, clippings, photographs, minutes, platforms, resolutions, lists, reports, receipts, budgets, scrapbooks, maps, and published materials. Among the correspondents are Governors Ellis Arnall of Ga.; Ross R. Barnett of Miss.; Leverett Saltonstall of Mass.; J. Strom Thurmond of S.C.; and George C. Wallace of Ala. U.S. Senators include Owen Brewster, Harry F. Byrd, James O. Eastland, and John Sparkman. Alabama politicians include Eugene "Bull" Connor, Sam Engelhardt, and Walter Givhan. Prominent newspapermen include Virginius Dabney of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Series V. States' Rights and Dixiecrats, 1940-1956, and n.d.. Subseries A. Correspondence, 1948-1951, contains correspondence, memoranda, and telegrams that detail the activities of the Dixiecrats. Correspondents include Strom Thurmond, Harry F. Byrd, and Eugene "Bull" Connor. Subseries B. Organization Materials and Activities, 1948-1951, contains membership lists, committee lists, press releases, the names of delegates attending conventions, and an organization plan. Includes material from both the National States' Rights Committee and the Alabama States' Rights Committee. Subseries C. Published Materials, 1940-1956, contains various types of printed matter that Dixon collected which related to states' rights, such as the 1940 debate on the issue, "That the Power of the Federal Government Should Be Increased," in which Dixon argued in the negative. There is also a 1947 address by Strom Thurmond; a 1948 address by William H. Tuck; a 1949 pamphlet on the U.S. Constitution published by the National States' Rights Committee; and other publications, most of which were anti-labor, anti-Communist, and / or anti-civil rights. Series VI. Correspondence, Personal and Political, 1948-1965, contains files on Americans for Constitutional Action and Committee for Constitutional Government.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122387780
http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1924-1965/oclc/122387780
Catalogue search engine:
http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=01ALABAMA
Finding aid:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v2210.pdf
[0809] Thomas Dixon Papers, 1892-1959
Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708
Description: Thomas Frederick Dixon, II (1864-1946) was a believer in white supremacy and the author of The Clansman (1905), which was to become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). Correspondence, papers, and writings of Thomas Dixon. Correspondence contains material on the Mt. Mitchell Association of Arts and Sciences, apparently having to do with land development, 1927-1928; the publication of Dixon's last novel, The Flaming Sword, 1939-1940; and letters relating to the religious beliefs of Dixon's second wife, Madelyn (Donovan) Dixon. There is a miscellaneous group of financial papers and a number of legal papers concerning copyrights and contracts with companies producing Dixon's plays. Writings include bound holograph drafts of The Sins of the Father and The Sun Virgin, proofs of The One Woman, pasted and bound; typed drafts of Dixon's plays; the first unrevised sketch of Dixon's dramatic adaptation of The Clansman and a scenario for the filmed version of Birth of a Nation.
References:
Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, edited by Richard C. Davis and Linda Angle Miller (1980), http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide/ and http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide.pdf; John David Smith, "'My Books Are Hard Reading for a Negro': Tom Dixon and His African American Critics, 1905-1939," Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [2006]), p. 77; Alexander J. Beringer, "The Pleasures of Conspiracy: American Literature 1870-1910" (Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 2011), http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/86459/beringer_1a.pdf.
Websites with information:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide/
[0809a] Thomas Dixon papers, 1901-1905, Manuscript Collection No. 23
Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870
Description: Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) was a clergyman, lecturer, and novelist. Dixon published his first of twenty-two novels, The Leopard's Spots, in 1902. That novel and two others, The Clansman (1905) and The Traitor (1907), comprised his bestselling trilogy of books defending the South. Dixon wrote the screenplay for the movie The Birth of a Nation (1915), based on The Clansman. His three anti-socialist novels, beginning with The One Woman (1903), sold widely. The collection contains one folder of correspondence (1901-1905), which includes thirteen detailed letters from Thomas Dixon to publishers. One letter to Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) of Doubleday, Page & Company mentions Dixon's work on plot development for The Clansman (February 7, 1904). The collection has one folder of miscellaneous items (1902-1903) and a typescript (381 pp.) of The One Woman with penciled revisions.
Websites with information:
http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/c.php?g=50199&p=324597
Finding aids:
http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/dixon23/
http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/dixon23/printable/