Indexed works
Works about or by Virginius Dabney. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
About Virginius Dabney
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995.
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