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Ii!: &; Q t!I e ~ cs: o o ~ E ac o ­ CO ~ ~ ~ ffi ~ I.LJ en ::::> ~ 2 :n --1 ~ t; ca:I < 2: > j D­ -=LI.1 ~ e-. ~ <';Olllributeti by Cherry. O'('OlllJcr ,I. ('1.1., Xa~h\'iIl(', 'rellll. The jmtly celehrateu and 'popular "TcnJl{'s~cc" Vy'agoll, liO fllvorably known througbllut tilp ;';olllhcru ::itale~, i~ llllHk 0/ l'arcf111ly select· cd, A.nd thoroughly sca"olled tlmher, .Llld beRt l(ftlUeS or Kent11cky and Tell1l('R~ct' iroll. Its oi!>Un guJi.,hillg-IClIlurl'" arc ib cxceedill~ LfGlIl':-.'E~S OF DRA FT autl DURABILITY. III appcnrance it Is lIellt and attra('tive, Ilnd in style and JiniHh i~ not excelI'd by any wll:,:on ill the IIlHrkct. We caunot ~i\'c it IL hiJl:hcr recommendation tlllm to ~ay we retuin ALII our olu CUl>lOmer~, :md lire constalltly milking new' ncs. Jt is ~old l.Iy lhe best denIers in evcry ~oulhertl State, Ilud is f,l"t Hnding its ,~ay to every [drIll where Il.f(ooo. Wl\gOIl is appreciated. Tn ~cven yc!tl'l; we have increAserl its !SIlle ten fold. Eyery wagon fully warranted. For l>rice lbt tlddre~:;, CHEltH)', O'CO:-;~ER .,1;0 (;0., Nashville, Tenn. Newspaper advertisements, especially illustrated ones such as this one from The Rural Sun (Nashville, June 12, 1879), can teach us what life was like at a particular time and place in history. (See article on p. 14.) n 1994, the University Libraries observed a milestone The wealth of knowledge that the University Libraries with the addition of the two-millionth volume to its offers reaches far beyond the confines of the campus, how­ collection. Two million volumes in two hundred years ever. There is a growing awareness that the UTK library marks a good time to pause and appreciate the value of system is a special resource to the people of East Tennessee. our libraries-and what role they will play in the next century at There are fewer than 100 university research the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. libraries in this country. Our library system supports the At the two-millionth volume celebration, Chancellor Bill business community in economic development, social ser­ Snyder called the library system the nerve center of campus, and vices, and thousands of individuals who seek information for that's what it really is. It rcally does pulsate with people, with personal growth, personal finances or recreation. It's certainly the ideas that are in the materials that we own or provide access used by everyone from business people to high school stu­ to, and with the interactions between our faculty and staff dents to community members who just want to find out more and our users. about something they're interested in. The nature of a research library is continued growth. Our participation in the University-wide 21st Century Campaign On the Cover gives us the opportunity to continue to strengthen our many With this cover we celebrate Tennessee's two hundredth year of resources and take the University Libraries into the next statehood. Bust of John Sevier by Jim Gray courtesy Marble century and beyond. Springs John Sevier Farm Home; portrait of William Blount by Sarah Ward Connelly and doll belonging to Blount famil)' courtesy Paula T. Kaufman Blount Mansion Association; sixteen-stared fiag courtesy John Dean of Libraries Dobson. (Photo by Stan McCleave; see article on p. 7.) THE LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 1994/95 Edited by James B. Lloyd Associate Editor Laura C. Simic TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 A Word from Fred Stone 3 Tennessee, Racism, and the New Right: The Second Beckwith Collection by James B. Lloyd 6 I Responding to the Information Revolution: The 21 st Century Campaign by Laura C. Simic 7 The Flag That Might Have Been, 1 796 by John Dobson 9 Drink, Death, and Politics: The Killing of Senator Edward W. Carmack by William B. Eigelsbach and Jamie Sue Linder 1 3 I Giving in Memory and in Generosity: Mrs. Reba Q. Absher by Dana Bagwell 1 4 I Rags to Riches: The Tennessee Newspaper Proiect by K. Joslyn Quinn 1 6 I Humanities Collection Enriched Through Lindsay Young Fund by D. E. Perushek 1 7 I The Survey is in-Satisfied Friends by Dana Bagwell and Laura C. Simic 1 8 I WW II at Fifty by John McManus 20 I Andrew Johnson Claims a Third Corner by Cathy Chase 21 Private Dollars, Public Treasures 21 Investing in the Future 21 Library Endowments 22 Those Honored 22 Those Memorialized 22 The William G. McAdoo Society 22 Library Friends y involvement with the University Libraries came about in a very unusual way. During my tenure at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I admired, but rarely took advantage of, the facilities. My father, Fred O. Stone, Sr. M.D., entrusted me with a varied collection of artifacts that he had collected from around the world during his twenty-odd years with the Army Medical Corps, among them being a velum psalter from 1536. After extensive research on my father's library, I was referred to UT's Special Collections Library. Upon calling John Dobson, the director at that time, I received such a warm reception that it opened my eyes. It was like all the people who helped establish Tennessee were all gathered in the Hoskins Library, as represented by its collection, with the beau­ tiful books and oriental rugs as a backdrop. Since my father loved East Tennessee, its people and the University beyond description, I knew right away that his priceless psalter had found a home. After I donated the psalter, I began to realize that an enormous part of the University evolves directly from its libraries, and I became involved with the Library Friends. The construction of the Hodges Library really got my adrenalin flowing. This architectural wonder and state of the art facility is Dr. Fred Stone graduated fyom the University of Tennessee, Memphis in 1960 with a degree in something that the whole state and, for that matter, the nation can dentistry. He is a member of UT's Benefactor's Society, the Library Friends Executive Commit­ very well be proud of. tee and the Libraries' William G. McAdoo It is very easy for me to say that my involvement with the Society. Dr. Stone is retired and lives in Oliver Springs with his wife, Helen. University Libraries has been a very rewarding and pleasant experi­ ence. My support shall continue in the future. ~e.~ Fred O. Stone, D.D.S. 2 THE REVIEW 1994/ 95 TENNESSEE, RACISM, AND Reed did, in fact, Beckwith in the THE NEW RIGHT: end up donating most of Church ofthe Nativity, THE SECOND BECKWITH that research as well as late 1950s. During COLLECTION suggesting several pos­ this period he had sible complimentary col­ begun to write letters By James B. Lloyd lections, some of which to the newspapers and Special Collections Librarian we have since obtained, was known to carry a The current attention that right wing like that of Tom Van gun in church. survivalist and racist groups are receiving in the Riper, who was an FBI (Beckwith Collection.) light of the bombing in Oklahoma makes the acqui­ agent on the case. The sition of the Byron De La Beckwith letters doubly best material, however, important because it is only through original re­ he could not afford to search into minds like his that these groups can be give us. This was a col­ letters, and there is no understood. Beckwith, who started out as a com­ lection of letters written better way to do that mon, garden variety racist, evolved into an apostle from Beckwith to his than to briefly para­ of the Christian Identity Movement and became wife, the former Mary phrase the account of associated with such far right extremist organiza­ Louise Williams of Beckwith's life and tions as Knoxvillian Buddy Tucker's White Seed, Knoxville, known to times drawn by Reed having been ordained a minister in Tucker's Reed as Aunt Mary and Massengill in Portrait of Temple Memorial Baptist Church in 1977 just be­ to Beckwith simply as a Racist: The Man Who fore returning to Louisiana to serve his prison term Willie, mostly while he Killed Medgar Evers? for an attempted bombing. This evolution is made was in jail in 1963-64 On November 9, clear in Portrait of a Racist, by Reed Massengi ll , awaiting his first trial for 1920, Byron De La on which I draw liberally for the fo llowing article. the murder of Medgar Evers. She had saved Beckwith, Jr., was born in Sacramento Cali­ When Nick Wyman, the unit head for them and given them to Reed to assist with fornia to Byron De La Beckwith and Susie Special Collections who often writes for this his book before she died in 1992.