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1904–1977 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Howard Kester.
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.
Fourteen reels of microfilm reproducing the papers of Howard A. Kester (1904-1977) from 1923 to 1972, filmed from the manuscript collection in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Microfilming Corporation of America issued the positive set in 1973 with a printed guide, and an index to the manuscripts accompanies it.
Organizational records of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, 1937 to 1986, roughly 13,000 items in twelve linear feet, collection 3479 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The records concern churches, social problems and race relations in the South, including material relating to Howard Kester, Nelle Morton, Charles Miles Jones and David S. Burgess. Black Mountain and Chapel Hill both appear as places. A preservation microfilm was made in 1985.
William Ruthrauff Amberson, born 1894, left papers spanning 1919 to 1968 with a small run from 1971. The papers concern the University of Tennessee at Memphis and southern farm politics: the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, the Delta Cooperative Farm and Providence Plantation in Mississippi, the Socialist Party, and figures such as Norman Thomas, Howard Kester and Pauli Murray. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3862.
Papers of Olive Matthews Stone, 1897 to 1977, with material running from 1838 to 1977, about 1,000 items in 1.5 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4107. Subjects include her teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Institute for Research in Social Science at Chapel Hill, along with Southern civil rights work: the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the American Friends Service Committee and the Delta Cooperative Farm in Mississippi.
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