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Virginius Dabney

1901–1995 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Virginius Dabney

The good southern universities

Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995 · 1965 · Harper & Row

Virginius Dabney's magazine essay on the leading universities of the South, detached from Harper's Magazine, volume 230, number 1378, of March 1965. A note records that he discusses Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is where the Orange County connection lies.

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In search of the silent South

Sosna, Morton · 1977 · Columbia University Press

Morton Sosna's study of southern liberals and the race issue, published by Columbia University Press in 1977, 275 pages. Figures discussed include Howard Washington Odum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virginius Dabney and Lillian Smith.

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