Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
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.
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.