Finding Aid for the Kefauver Wing Development Records, 1965-1966
MS-2377 University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, July 11, 2006.
Summary Information
Kefauver Wing Development Records
Date/Date Range : 1965-1966
0.1 linear feet
Abstract: This collection consists of two meeting transcripts from June 1965 about the development of the Kefauver Wing Addition to the James D. Hoskins Library at the University of Tennessee, as well as a copy of the speech given by Senator Henry M. Jackson at the dedication ceremony on June 25, 1966.
MS-2377
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Access and Use
Collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
[Identification of Item], Kefauver Wing Development Records, MS-2377. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Biography / History
Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) was a U.S. House Representative (1939-1949), U.S. Senator (1950-1963), and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. In 1935 he married Nancy Piggott, a native of Scotland.
During his years in the Senate, he served on the Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and sponsored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962. He lost favor among Southerners with his support of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision to desegregate schools and when he and Albert Gore, Sr., were the only southern senators to refuse to sign the Southern Manifesto, intending to block school integration, in 1956.
In 1952, he lost to Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, but in 1956 he was Stevenson's Vice Presidential running mate.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of two meeting transcripts from June 1965 about the development of the Kefauver Wing Addition to the James D. Hoskins Library at the University of Tennessee, as well as a copy of the speech given by Senator Henry M. Jackson at the dedication ceremony on June 25, 1966.
Subject Terms
- Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
- University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus). Libraries.
Contents List
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Transcript of fourth meeting concerning the Kefauver Wing in James D. Hoskins Library at University of Tennessee, 1965 June 17
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Transcript of fifth meeting concerning the Kefauver Wing in James D. Hoskins Library at University of Tennessee, 1965 June 25
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Transcript of "Remarks by Senator Henry M. Jackson" at the "Dedication/Estes Kefauver Memorial Library" at the University of Tennessee, 1966 June 25
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