Nellie Kenyon Scrapbook Addition
This addition to the Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks, 1917-1967 (MS.789), contains a scrapbook on the Nellie Kenyon Day at UT's College of Communications on January 8, 1974. In it are letters about the event, pictures from her lecture, and reports that journalism students wrote on her afterwards, plus miscellaneous items in the sleeves; all of which date between 1973 and 1978. There is also a November 1977 copy of The Tennessean Magazine in this collection, with articles by Kenyon and H. L. Mencken on the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Interested researchers may also wish to consult June N. Adamson's August 1971 thesis, Selected Women in Tennessee Newspaper Journalism, which contains a biography of Nellie Kenyon.
Dates
- 1973-1978
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Extent
0.2 Linear Feet (2 folders)
Abstract
This addition to the Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks contains a scrapbook on the Nellie Kenyon Day at UT's College of Communications on January 8, 1974, with letters about the event, pictures from her lecture, and reports that journalism students wrote on her afterwards, and there is a November 1977 copy of The Tennessean Magazine in this collection, with articles by Kenyon and H. L. Mencken on the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Biographical/Historical Note
Nellie Kenyon was born on November 28, 1898. Although she had little formal education in her youth, she spent most of her professional life writing for such Tennessee newspapers as The Nashville Tennesseean and The Chattanooga News. Her work dealt primarily with reporting on federal trials. These stories include her coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in July 1925; her exposure of a baby-selling operation in Memphis (which obtained infants under questionable circumstances and placed them in adoptive homes, including the homes of Hollywood movie stars, for a large fee) in 1950; and her coverage of the Jimmy Hoffa trial in January 1964. Even after her official retirement in 1970, Kenyon occasionally wrote on special assignments. She died in February 1982 and is buried in Hamilton County.
Arrangement
Collection consists of two folders.
Acquisition Note
This collection was donated by John Seigenthaler in December 1991.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository