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University of North
Carolina at Asheville Manuscript Register George W. McCoy Collection
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| Title | George W. McCoy Collection |
| Creator | George W. McCoy |
| Alt. Creator | George W. McCoy Family |
| Subject | Keyword : George W. McCoy ; integration ; segregation ; race relations ; "New South" |
| Subject | LCSH : McCoy, George W. Love, Robert A. |
| Description | This collection contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other material, with a special focus on race relations and integration issues. Estate correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other material with a special focus on race relations and integration issues. |
| Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | Southern Highlands Research Center |
| Date | 2001-04-22 |
| Type | Collection ; Text |
| Format | 1.5 cu. ft. ; 2 manuscript boxes |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/mccoy/mccoy.html |
| Source | M78.1.1, M78.1.2 |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Heritage of Black Highlanders |
| Coverage | 1934-1961 ; Western North Carolina ; Asheville, NC ; Middlesboro, KY |
| Rights | Any display, publication, or
public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections,
University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | 39 |
| Acquisition | 1978-01-29 |
| Citation | George W. McCoy Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 1979 and 2002 |
| Last update | 2005-12-01 JW |
| Biography | George William McCoy (1901-1961) was born in Dillsboro, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina, 1919-1922, and the University of Chicago, 1926-1928, from which he received a Ph.B. McCoy joined the staff of the Asheville (N. C.) Citizen in 1924. He was editor of the Citizen from 1955 to 1961, and published several pamphlets on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including the Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Asheville: The Inland Press, 1935. |
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Box |
Folder |
Contents |
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M78.1.1 |
1 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1934-1952 (13 items) |
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2 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1956 (27 items) |
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3 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1957 (31 items) |
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4 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1958 (33 items) |
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5 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1959 (38 items) |
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6 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1960 (103 items) |
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7 |
Newspaper clippings on race and integration: 1961 (5 items) |
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8 |
Printed material: "A New South" publications: April 1955 through April 1960; articles on segregation, integration; Supreme Court ruling, June 1955; desegregation in schools; the south and the nation; the racial crisis and the press. (14 items) |
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Printed material on segregation and integration. (7 items) |
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10 |
64 page document on the First Presbyterian Church, Asheville, North Carolina 1794 - 1951; chronology of minutes. (2 items) |
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11 |
County history; historical sketches of Wilkes County; notes on pensioners in North Carolina; handwritten notes on "Documentary History of Dunmore's War," and "Revolution on the Upper Ohio;" notes on the French and Indian War, 1758-1763; miscellaneous notes. ( 11 items) |
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12 |
Personal papers. Tax copies; correspondence concerning Tennent estate; etc. (73 items) |
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Box 2 |
1 |
Estate papers of Mrs. Marvin McCoy, 1956. (27 items) |
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2 |
Address by Governor Luther H. Hodges; miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings; newspaper clipping on D. Hiden Ramsey (6 items) |
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3 |
Pack Memorial Library by-laws, minutes, reports, budget, miscellaneous correspondence; resolution concerning opening of the libraries and branches to blacks. (24 items) |
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4 |
Photograph of Mr. Love and federal Judge Wilson Warlick of Newton (1 item) |
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5 |
Books and pamphlets on integration, desegregation, race relations (14 items) |
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6 |
Genealogy.(4 items) of four different families: Scott; Herbert; Mebane; combined
items, McCoy, Kerr, Graves, Robertson families. |
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7 |
43 page booklet on General Thomas Love, by Robert A. Love (2 items) |