Reminiscences of Luther Harris Evans, 1965.

Biographical Note

Educator, librarian; interviewee d.1981

Scope and Contents

Early life and education: University of Texas, Stanford, Yale, Pennsylvania Military College; instructor at New York University, Dartmouth, Princeton; Works Progress Administration, 1935-1939; director of Historical Records Survey; director of Legislative Reference Service; Librarian of Congress, 1945-1953; new projects, programs; establishment of Council of National Library Association; United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): United States National Commission, 1946; Executive Board, 1949, director-general, 1953, delegate to General Conference, 1947-1951; UNESCO program development: education, agriculture, mass communication, financial aid; Brookings Institution; National Education Association; automation project; United States Commission for Refugees; American Civil Liberties Union. Impressions of Harry Hopkins, Archibald MacLeish, Torres Bodet, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dag Hammarskjold, Lyndon Johnson

Subjects

• American Civil Liberties Union.
• Brookings Institution.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Hogan, Thomas F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• International agencies.
• Interviews.
• Librarians--Interviews.
• Library of Congress.
• Library science--Societies, etc.
• National Education Association of the United States.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political refugees.
• Unesco.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Works Progress Administration.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972