{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Brown%2C+Aubrey+N.+%28Aubrey+Neblett%29%2C+1908-\u0026view=compact","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Brown%2C+Aubrey+N.+%28Aubrey+Neblett%29%2C+1908-\u0026page=1\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00009","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The Aubrey N. Brown papers include a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a variety of sources, and some of the organizational records from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern Regional Council). Also included in the collection are materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the collection also includes annual family newsletters generated by Brown.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["730 (ca.)\n items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":18,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["730 (ca.)\n items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. 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