Reed Sarratt papers

Reed Sarratt papers

Creator Sarratt, Reed
Description Correspondence, writings, notes, and other items of North Carolina journalist Reed Sarratt, whose career took him from editorial posts at the Charlotte News and the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel to directorships of the Southern Education Reporting Service and the Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association. Sarratt’s chief editorial interest was civil rights, and he was particularly involved in monitoring the desegregation of public schools.
Call number #4549
Date from 1930s
Date to
Geographic school Virginia
Size 22.5 ft. (ca. 11,200 items)
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions To be used only with special assistance from Technical Services staff.
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Sarratt,Reed.html
Repository Southern Historical Collection
Repository address 4th Floor, Wilson Library, CB# 3926, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Repository contact name Tim West
Repository contact title Director of the Southern Historical Collection
Repository contact email wilsonlibrary@unc.edu
Repository contact phone (919) 962-1345
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Sarratt, Reed

o    Journalists

o    Newspapers–North Carolina–Charlotte

o    Newspapers–North Carolina–Winston-Salem

o    Southern Education Reporting Service

o    Southern Newspaper Publishers Association

o    Public schools–North Carolina

Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

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