George Fort Milton papers, 1828-1985 (bulk 1915-1946) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, research and historical source material, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Milton's career as a historian of the Civil War, newspaper editor, and advisor in the national government. Documents his work as president and editor of the Chattanooga News and editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Buffalo Evening News. Also documents his service as member of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching in the 1930s; advisor at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936; and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in 1937. Subjects include Stephen A. Douglas, Andrew Johnson, the Tennessee Valley Authority, lynching in the South, and other national and local political issues