VBHA - Townes Papers,
Scope and Content.
Clarence L. Townes Jr. Papers
1944-1988
SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The collection includes correspondence, notes, newspaper and
journal clippings, various organizational minutes, numerous reports
and files, drafts of speeches, manuscripts and numerous published
materials
dating from 1944 through 1988. The bulk of the collection dates
from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s and focuses on Townes'
interest in and involvement with issues concerning race, politics,
and the revitalization of downtown Richmond. The collection also
includes a significant amount of material on the role of African-
American Republicans in the Virginia Republican Party of the 1960s
and in the National Republican Party during the late 1960s and
early 1970s.
Related information on the revitalization and development of
downtown Richmond can be found in the Richmond Renaissance Archives
(M 303) and the Mary Tyler Cheek McClenahan Papers (M 302) in
Special
Collections
and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library.
ARRANGEMENT:
The collection was donated to Virginia Commonwealth University
(VCU) in 1991. The original deposit by Mr. Townes was not
organized in any particular order. Materials in the collection are
now divided topically by series and alphabetically therein. See
Series Description for further explanation of the
collection's
arrangement.
[Biography of Clarence L. Townes.]
[Scope, Content, and Arrangement of Collection.][Series Description.]
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