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
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 in Lexington, Kentucky. Although she had little formal education in her youth, she spent most of her professional life writing for such Tennessee newspapers as The Chattanooga Times (1925-1940) and The Nashville Tennessean (1940-1970). Her work dealt primarily with federal trials, including coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, her 1950 exposure of a baby selling operation in Memphis, and her coverage of the Jimmy Hoffa trial in 1964. Even after her official retirement in 1970, Kenyon continued to write occasionally on special assignments. She died in 1982.
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