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Stetson Kennedy collection, 1940-2002, Date acquired: 00/00/2001, bulk 1992-2002

 

Summary

Abstract:
Articles, correspondence, memorabilia, newsclippings, and other materials related to Stetson Kennedy's professional career.
Extent:
9.00 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Stetson Kennedy Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2008-031

Background

Scope and content:

The Stetson Kennedy Collection documents the career of this notable writer and political activist. Materials include biographical materials, correspondence concerning Kennedy's speaking engagements, plans for a documentary about his life, and comments about his publications; French and English newsclippings about obtaining movie rights to Kennedy's book The Klan Unmasked; programs; publicity, and videotaped excerpts of his interviews. There are copies of letters from notable individuals such as Pearl S. Buck, Erskine Caldwell, Woody Guthrie, Martin Luther King, Jr., Herman Talmadge, Studs Terkel, and Richard Wright.

Biographical / historical:

Stetson Kennedy, an award-winning author and human rights activist, is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist. Born in Jacksonville in 1916, Kennedy was one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the Twentieth Century. As a teenager, he began collecting white and African-American folklore material while he was collecting accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. He left the University of Florida, in 1937, to join the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Florida Writers' Project, and at the age of 21, was put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies.

Acquisition information:
Given to FSU Libraries in 2001 by Madeleine Carr, via Elna Green.
Processing information:

Processed by Burt Altman in December 2008.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Stetson Kennedy Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2008-031

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA