Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin Papers, 1897-1988 (original) (raw)

Collection Number: 04171

Collection Title: Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin Papers, 1897-1988

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Size 3.0 linear feet feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1500 items items)
Abstract Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin (1897-1988) was YWCA national student secretary, southern region, 1920-1925; research director at the Council of Industrial Studies, Smith College, 1932-1939, and at the Institute of Labor Studies, Northampton, Mass., 1940-1953; professor of sociology at Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., 1957-1967; and an author. This collection contains correspondence, writings (mainly unpublished), research materials, lecture notes and drafts, photographs, and other papers of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. Most of the material relates to Lumpkin's primary research interests--race relations, criminology, labor, and southern history. Also included is material concerning Lumpkin's work as YWCA national student secretary and her extensive involvement in community activities in Charlottesville, Va., 1967-1978, some family letters, and some genealogical material.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin Papers #4171, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin of Charlottesville, Va., in April 1979; and Nancy Robinson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in May 1988. Addition received January 2019 (Acc. 103523).

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Processed by: Rebecca K. McCoy, Gina Overcash, Suzanne Ruffing, March 1982, September 1988, February 1996

Encoded by: Russell Michalak, May 2006

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

Finding aid updated because of addition, January 2019

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1897 Katharine DuPre Lumpkin born in Macon, Ga.
1912-1915 Attended Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga.; received A.B. in history
1915-1917 Worked as teaching assistant in history, Brenau College
1918-1919 Attended Columbia University; received M.A. in sociology
1920-1925 Worked as YWCA national student secretary, southern region
1925-1928 Attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; received Ph.D. in sociology with minors in labor history and international relations
1928-1929 Appointed instructor in economics and sociology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
1929-1930 Awarded post-doctoral fellowship, Social Science Research Council, New York City
1932-1939 Served as director of research, Council of Industrial Studies, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
1933 Published The Family: A Study in Membership Roles
1934 Published Shutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community
1937 Published (with Dorothy W. Douglas) Child Workers in America
1938 Published The South in Progress
1940-1953 Served as research director, Institute of Labor Studies, Northampton, Mass.
1947 Published The Making of a Southerner
1949 Awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for 1950
1956-1957 Appointed visiting lecturer in sociology, Mills College, Oakland, Calif.
1957-1967 Appointed professor of sociology, Wells College, Aurora, N.Y.
1967 Retired; moved to Charlottesville, Va.
1967-1971 Taught extension courses in criminology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
1967-1978 Member of the League of Women Voters
1970-1975 Participated in founding Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR) of Charlottesville/Albemarle County, and served on the board of directors
1974 Published The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke
1974-1978 Served on the state board of directors of the Citizens' Association for Justice in Virginia
1975-1978 Served as the League of Women Voters representative on the state board of OAR of Virginia
1979 Moved to Chapel Hill, N.C.
1988 Died in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Correspondence, writings (mainly unpublished), research materials, lecture ntoes and drafts, photographs, and other papers of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. Most of the material relates to Lumpkin's primary research interests--race relations, criminology, labor, and southern history. Also included is material concerning Lumpkin's work as YWCA national student secretary and her extensive involvement in community activities in Charlottesville, Va., 1967-1968. There are also some family letters and genealogical materials.

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Contents list

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1915-1986 and undated.

About 900 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Much of the correspondence relates to Lumpkin's research and writing projects, particularlyThe Making of a Southerner; an unpublished novel, "Eli Hill"; The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke; and an article, "The General Plan Was Freedom." There are also some letters about her books The Family: A Study in Membership Roles and Child Workers in America. Most of this correspondence is with editors about publishing arrangements, revisions, sales, and distribution; with librarians about research materials; and with scholars about Lumpkin's work. Letters from friends, scholars, and others responding to The Making of a Southerner constitute the bulk of the 1947 files. Other correspondence pertains to articles, book reviews, and teaching and research appointments.

Much of the later correspondence focuses on Lumpkin's activities after her retirement from Wells College in 1967. Lumpkin's interest in criminal justice is reflected in letters relating to her memberships in the League of Women Voters, Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR), and the Citizens Association for Justice in Virginia (CAJV). There is no correspondence relating to Lumpkin's participation in other organizations to which she belonged--the American Civil Liberties Union, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Common Cause, and the Women's Political Caucus. Later correspondence, beginning ca. 1964, also concerns health matters.

Other correspondence relates to Lumpkin's work as a national student secretary for the YWCA. Most of these letters are between Lumpkin and Leslie Blanchard of the Student Department of the YWCA, and other student secretaries. Some of the YWCA letters are photocopies. There are also a few letters relating to Lumpkin's years at Brenau College, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin. A few of Lumpkin's childhood letters to and from family members, as well as some later letters from her mother are included. The scrapbook, which is on microfilm, also contains a few letters.

Folder 1 1902-1923
Folder 2 1924-1925
Folder 3 1926-1931
Folder 4 1932-1942
Folder 5 1943-1944
Folder 6 1945-1946
Folder 7-12 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folder 10 Folder 11 Folder 12 1947
Folder 13 1948
Folder 14 1949-1950
Folder 15 1951-1952
Folder 16 1953-1955
Folder 17-18 Folder 17 Folder 18 1956
Folder 19 1957-1959
Folder 20 1960-1961
Folder 21 1962-1966
Folder 22 1967
Folder 23 1968
Folder 24 1969-1972
Folder 25 1973-1974
Folder 26 1975
Folder 27 1976
Folder 28 1977
Folder 29-30 Folder 29 Folder 30 1978
Folder 31 1979
Folder 32 1980-1981
Folder 33 1982
Folder 34 1983-1986 and undated

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About 125 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Primarily unpublished manuscripts, drafts, project proposals, and book reviews. Much of the unpublished material consists of Lumpkin's M.A. thesis, dissertation, unpublished articles based on her dissertation, and drafts of her "Parental and Home Rating Scale," which grew out of her doctoral research and was used in the research for her book on child labor. Some case studies are filed with the scale. Other material includes notes for books and articles, typescript and printed copies of book reviews by Lumpkin, and project proposals submitted with fellowship applications to the Social Science Research Council and to various publishers.

Folders 50 and 51 contain a paperback copy of The Making of a Southerner (1981 reprint) and reviews of the book, 1947-1981. Also included in this series are notes and a typescript for the unpublished novel "Eli Hill"; notes for and reviews of The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke; and typescript copies of and correspondence relating to an article on Angelina Grimke written for The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. A complete list of Lumpkin's published writings is included in folder 99.

Folder 35 "Social Interests of the Southern Woman": M.A. thesis, 1919.
Folder 36-37 Folder 36 Folder 37 "Social Situations and Girl Delinquency": Ph.D. dissertation, 1928.
Folder 38 "Parental and Home Rating Scale": Drafts, case histories, 1928-1930.
Folder 39 "The Economic Aspect of Child Delinquency," circa 1929
Folder 40 "Some Factors in Child Delinquent Status," circa 1930.
Folder 41 The Family: A Study in Membership Roles: related material.
Folder 42-43 Folder 42 Folder 43 "Case Studies in Family Maintenance at Low Income Levels," 1932
Folder 44-45 Folder 44 Folder 45 "Report of a Preliminary Survey of the Economic Development of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, with a View to Studies That Should Be Projected by the Council of Industrial Studies," undated
Folder 46-49 Folder 46 Folder 47 Folder 48 Folder 49 The Making of a Southerner: Related material, research, notes
Folder 50 The Making of a Southerner: Book
Folder 51 The Making of a Southerner: Reviews
Folder 52 "The Hearing": From "Eli Hill"
Folder 53-54 Folder 53 Folder 54 "Eli Hill": Typescript
Folder 55 "Eli Hill": Notes
Folder 56 "The General Plan Was Freedom: A Negro Secret Order on the Underground Railroad" and related material, 1967
Folder 57 "The Problem of Schisms in Movements for Civil Rights," April 1968
Folder 58 The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke: Related material
Folder 59 The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke: Reviews
Folder 60 Grimke material, circa 1977
Folder 61 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Grimke article
Folder 62 Book reviews by Lumpkin
Folder 63 Notes for a review of Milton Rugoff, The Beechers: An American Family in the 19th Century, 1981.

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About 65 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Primarily notes and some drafts of lectures delivered at college functions and in classes, primarily at Wells College, but also at Smith College and Mills College. Some of the lectures were also given in Charlottesville, Va. Most of the lectures relate to race relations and to Lumpkin's research projects. Early lectures are onThe Making of a Southerner, and many of the later lectures focus on criminal justice. Announcements and programs for many of Lumpkin's talks are filed in folder 119.

More than half of the lectures were delivered as part of Lumpkin's course, "The Negro Minority in American Life." Lumpkin taught this course at Wells College from 1957 to 1967. The version of the lectures included here is for the course as it was taught during the 1966-1967 academic year. The lectures cover black history from the nineteenth century to 1967, but most of them focus on the twentieth century and particularly on the 1950s and 1960s. A survey of black protest during summer 1963, conducted by Lumpkin's class in 1963-1964, is filed with the lectures. For supporting material Lumpkin used with these class lectures, see the Printed Material and Microfilm series.

Folder 95 contains typescript copies and notes for lectures delivered at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church in Charlottesville, Va. Also included in this series are notes and lectures on Fanny Kemble.

Folder 64-65 Folder 64 Folder 65 1947
Folder 66 1957
Folder 67 1958-1959
Folder 68 1961
Folder 69-70 Folder 69 Folder 70 "The Negro Minority in American Life," 1964, 1966-1967
Folder 71 Syllabus and notes for discussion
Folder 72 "The Subordination of the Negro Minority: Influence of Slavery, Reconstruction"
Folder 73 "The Subordination of the Negro Minority: Rise and Establishment of Segregation"
Folder 74 "Patterns of Violence"
Folder 75 "The Turning Point of Change: Population Trends"
Folder 76 "The Economic Status of the Negro Minority in the North and the South"
Folder 77 "The Changing Political Status of the Negro Minority"
Folder 78 "Social Stratification: Class and Caste"
Folder 79 "Race Mixture"
Folder 80 "The Nature and Effects of Prejudice: Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Issue of Racial Difference"
Folder 81 "Segregation in Education before 1954"
Folder 82 "Desegregation in the South"
Folder 83 "White Backlash"
Folder 84 "Desegregation in the Northern and Western States"
Folder 85 "Negro Leadership: From Accommodation to Protest"
Folder 86 "New Negro Protest"
Folder 87 "Study of Recent Developments in the Negro Protest Movement against Segregation": Class project, May-August 1963
Folder 88 "Residential Segregation in the North"
Folder 89 "Protest: The Watts Riots"
Folder 90 "Protest: The Black Muslims"
Folder 91 "Protest: Black Power and SNCC"
Folder 92 "The Changing Political Status of the Negro Minority: Civil Rights Acts"
Folder 93 "Supreme Court Decisions, Legislation, and Minority Groups"
Folder 94 "The Ordeal of Fanny Kemble": Typescript of lecture, 27 April 1967
Folder 95 1968-1978
Folder 96 Fanny Kemble, 10 May 1979
Folder 97 Fanny Kemble: Notes
Folder 98 Miscellaneous notes and lectures

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About 90 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Subject files relate to various organizations to which Lumpkin belonged, her education and genealogy, and also include autobiographical information. Files for Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR), Citizen's Association for Justice in Virginia (CAJV), and the League of Women Voters pertain to Lumpkin's interest in criminal justice. Included in these files are meeting notes and minutes, reports, and publicity material. Some of this material provides information on the history and organization of OAR and CAJV, and on the 1972 Governor's Council on the courts in Virginia. The YWCA material contains proposals, reports, and meeting notes by Lumpkin; schedules for campus visits; and lists of members of the National Student Council in the Southern Division. Some items are faded photocopies.

Among the autobiographical materials are a vita written for the University of North Carolina's Southern Oral History Program and a sketch written for Alfred Knopf, Inc., in connection with The Making of a Southerner. The vita includes extensive comments on Lumpkin's professional involvements. Other autobiographical material includes notes Lumpkin wrote to accompany her papers when they were transferred to the Southern Historical Collection.

School material includes transcripts, loan agreements, and other material from Lumpkin's years at Brenau College, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin. A genealogy for Lumpkin's father, William Wallace Lumpkin, and family notes made by Lumpkin on the Lumpkin and Du Pre families are filed with the genealogical material.

Folder 99 Autobiographical material
Folder 100 Citizen's Association For Justice in Virginia (CAJV)
Folder 101-107 Folder 101 Folder 102 Folder 103 Folder 104 Folder 105 Folder 106 Folder 107 Genealogical Material
Folder 108 League of Women Voters
Folder 109 Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR)
Folder 110 Offender Aid and Restoration: Clippings
Folder 111 School Records
Folder 112 YWCA
Folder 113 YWCA: Clippings

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About 125 items.

Primarily reprints of articles by Lumpkin, material related to Lumpkin's tenure at the Institute of Labor Studies, and brochures, reports, pamphlets, and news releases used in Lumpkin's course, "The Negro Minority in American Life." Much of this material came from the Southern Regional Council and CORE. Material from each of these organizations has been kept together.

Folder 115 contains a television script about the Grimke sisters for which Lumpkin was a consultant. Folder 121 contains material on Lumpkin's sister, writer Grace Lumpkin (d. 1980). Included are correspondence, obituaries, and an essay entitled "Memorial Day--1961."

The miscellaneous file (folder 126) contains certificates of membership in professional and honorary societies, items related to Lumpkin's retirement from Wells College, material pertaining to teaching assignments at the University of Virginia, a photocopy of Lumpkin's newspaper obituary, and other items.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4171/1 Population maps from the Southern Regional Council These maps show the percentage of non white population in the counties of the southern states, and the southern counties in which desegregation was in effect in the spring of 1960.
Folder 114 Reprints of articles by Lumpkin
Folder 115 The Story of the Grimke Sisters: Television script by Helen Jean Secondari and Billy James Parrott
Folder 116 Material related to the Institute of Labor Studies
Folder 117 Material from CORE related to Lumpkin's class lectures
Folder 118 Material from the Southern Regional Council related to Lumpkin's class lectures
Folder 119 Material related to Lumpkin's class lectures
Folder 120 Material related to Lumpkin's public lectures
Folder 121 Material on Grace Lumpkin
Folder 122 "Questions for Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, 6 May 1982, Chapel Hill": By Nell Irvin Painter
Folder 123 Henry Bibb: Notes on
Folder 124 Notes on prisoners and sentencing
Folder 125 Financial
Folder 126 Miscellaneous

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687 pages on 1 reel.

Included are a scrapbook and loose pages of reviews of Lumpkin's books, clippings (some photocopies) used in the research for The Making of a Southerner, and materials on civil rights used in Lumpkin's course, "The Negro Minority in American Life." Lumpkin underlined and annotated many of the clippings for her course, most of which are from the New York Times. Parts of some of the articles are missing.

The filmed pages are numbered consecutively as follows: scrapbook, pages 1-90 (pages 43-45, 47 omitted); loose pages of reviews, pages 91-117; clippings related to The Making of a Southerner, pages 118-117; clippings related to "The Negro Minority in American Life," pages 139-687.

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60 items.

Arrangement: chronological

Primarily photographs of Lumpkin, either alone or with friends. Most of the photographs were taken on vacations and on camping, hiking, and canoeing trips in New England, upstate New York, and elsewhere. Many of the photographs from the 1920s relate to YWCA activities, including scenes at the National Training School student weekend conferences, and the 1924 Blue Ridge Conference. Some of the other photographs are of Lumpkin at Wells College; in her Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, and Aurora homes; and on a trip to Europe in 1970.

Image P-4171/1 Great uncle George Lumpkin, died prior to 1961
Image P-4171/2-3 P-4171/2 P-4171/3 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, 1900, on Brenau College Campus, Gainsville, Ga.
Image P-4171/4-20 P-4171/4 P-4171/5 P-4171/6 P-4171/7 P-4171/8 P-4171/9 P-4171/10 P-4171/11 P-4171/12 P-4171/13 P-4171/14 P-4171/15 P-4171/16 P-4171/17 P-4171/18 P-4171/19 P-4171/20 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, early 1920s-1975
Image P-4171/21-22 P-4171/21 P-4171/22 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and unidentified friends in auto, embarking on New England trip, 1918
Image P-4171/23 Edith (?), Frances (Williams?), Marion (?), Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, 1918
Image P-4171/24 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin on New England trip, 1918
Image P-4171/25 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with unidentified friends on New England trip, 1918
Image P-4171/26 Frances (Williams?), Edith (?), Marion (?),Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin on New England trip, 1918
Image P-4171/27-28 P-4171/27 P-4171/28 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and students and faculty at the YWCA Training School, New York City, 1919-1920
Image P-4171/29 Overseas students at YWCA National Training School, New York City, 1919-1920
Image P-4171/30 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Grace Lumpkin in North Carolina, 1920
Image P-4171/31 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with unidentified students at YWCA weekend conference, circa Spring 1924
Image P-4171/32 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with unidentified friend at YWCA weekend conference, Tennessee, circa Spring 1924
Image P-4171/33 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with unidentified students at YWCA weekend conference, Tennessee, circa spring 1924 or 1925
Image P-4171/34-35 P-4171/34 P-4171/35 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with newly elected members of the YWCA Southern regional Council at the Blue Ridge Conference, June 1924
Image P-4171/36 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and unidentified friend canoeing in Canada, summer 1924
Image P-4171/37 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and the family of Henry Hope Lumpkin, Wisconsin, summer 1924
Image P-4171/38-40 P-4171/38 P-4171/39 P-4171/40 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and unidentified friend on camping trips, late 1930s, 1940s
Digital Folder DF-04171/1 Digital copy of a photograph of Katharine, Elizabeth, and Grace Lumpkin in New Haven, Conn., 1949 Acquisitions Information: Acc. 103523.
Image P-4171/41-42 P-4171/41 P-4171/42 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and unidentified individuals at retirement party, Wells College, May 1967
Image P-4171/43 Elizabeth Bennett and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin on trip to Amsterdam, summer 1970
Image P-4171/44-45 P-4171/44 P-4171/45 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin with unidentified friends, Charlottesville, Va., 1970s
Image P-4171/46 Morgan House, Wells College, July 1966
Image P-4171/47 Home of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin in Charlottesville, Va., spring 1971
Image P-4171/48-50 P-4171/48 P-4171/49 P-4171/50 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at Carol Woods Apartment, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Image P-4171/51 Elizabeth Bennett at Carol Woods
Image P-4171/52-54 P-4171/52 P-4171/53 P-4171/54 Unidentified woman and child
Image P-4171/55 Unidentified woman and two children
Image P-4171/56 Gloria [?] Bryan, Grace Lumpkin, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at Myrtle Beach
Image P-4171/57 Grace Lumpkin and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Image P-4171/58 Aerial View of unidentified town
Image P-4171/59 Cat
Image P-4171/60 Lumpkin family home in Oglethorpe, Ga., undated Black-and-white copy negative. 1 image. Location of original photograph is unknown. The copy negative was likely made in the Library's Photolab. "The house was built by Joseph Lumpkin, circa 1790. Katharine’s father William Wallace Lumpkin was born there in 1849." Information about the home was provided by historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

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