Oral history interview with Luther Harris Evans, 1965
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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
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