Title: Nellie Kenyon Scrapbook Addition

Date/Date Range :   1973-1978

Extent: 0.2 linear feet

Abstract:

This addition to the Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks contains a scrapbook on the Nellie Kenyon Day at UT's College of Communications on January 8, 1974, with letters about the event, pictures from her lecture, and reports that journalism students wrote on her afterwards, and there is a November 1977 copy of The Tennessean Magazine in this collection, with articles by Kenyon and H.L. Mencken on the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Call number: MS-2184

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated by John Seigenthaler in December 1991.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Nellie Kenyon Scrapbook Addition, MS-2184. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of two folders.

Nellie Kenyon was born in Lexington, Kentucky. Although she had little formal education in her youth, she spent most of her professional life writing for such Tennessee newspapers as The Chattanooga Times (1925-1940) and The Nashville Tennessean (1940-1970). Her work dealt primarily with federal trials, including coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, her 1950 exposure of a baby selling operation in Memphis, and her coverage of the Jimmy Hoffa trial in 1964. Even after her official retirement in 1970, Kenyon continued to write occasionally on special assignments. She died in 1982.

This addition to the Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks, 1917-1967 (MS-789), contains a scrapbook on the Nellie Kenyon Day at UT's College of Communications on January 8, 1974. In it are letters about the event, pictures from her lecture, and reports that journalism students wrote on her afterwards, plus miscellaneous items in the sleeves; all of which date between 1973 and 1978. There is also a November 1977 copy of The Tennessean Magazine in this collection, with articles by Kenyon and H.L. Mencken on the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Interested researchers may also wish to consult June N. Adamson's August 1971 thesis, Selected Women in Tennessee Newspaper Journalism, which contains a biography of Nellie Kenyon.

• Kenyon, Nellie.
• Women journalists -- United States.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville. College of Communications.