Oral history interview with Luther Harris Evans, 1965
- Name
- Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981 (Interviewee)
- Hogan, Thomas F (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Luther Harris Evans, 1965
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Luther Harris Evans, 1965
- Abstract
- 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 Nat ions 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
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Government executives--United States; Librarians; Educators; New Deal, 1933-1939; International agencies; Library science--Societies, etc; Political refugees; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981; Library of Congress; Unesco; American Civil Liberties Union; Brookings Institution; National Education Association of the United States; United States. Works Progress Administration
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 844 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Educator, librarian; interviewee d.1981
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Thomas F. Hogan
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7024619
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-j521-0m02
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.