Harry Shaffer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1259
Scope and Contents note
Contains newslippings relating to desegregation of the University of Alabama, 1956-1957; various publications and writings by Shaffer relating to desegregation; letter from Tuscaloosa News editor Buford Boone to Shaffer; and six photographs
Dates
- 1956-1981
Biographical/Historical note
Faculty member in the Department of Economics at Kansas University and the University of Alabama. Shaffer resigned from the University of Alabama in protest to the treatment of Autherine Lucy
Extent
0.3 Linear Feet (0.3 linear foot)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains newslippings relating to desegregation of the University of Alabama, 1956-1957; various publications and writings by Shaffer relating to desegregation; letter from Tuscaloosa News editor Buford Boone to Shaffer; and six photographs
Provenance
Gift of Harry Shaffer, January 1989
- Title
- Guide to the Harry Shaffer Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- March 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository