White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era

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notes repository and Collection abbreviations AAA Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. AFGE GSU American Federation of Government Employees, Local 136 (Knoxville, Tenn.) Records, 1934–41, Georgia State Univ. Library, Southern Labor Archives, Atlanta Dartmouth Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth, N.H. DEL Princeton David E. Lilienthal Papers, 1900–1981, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J. HFS TSLA Highlander Folk School, Manuscript Records Collection, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville HFS WHS Highlander Research and Education Center Collection, 1917–99, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison Hoover Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford Univ. HUAC RG 233 Records of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Executive Session Transcripts and Investigative Name Files, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, RG 233, Legislative Archives Center, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. LC Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. McClung Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tenn. MPL Memphis and Shelby County Public Library, Memphis OPM RG 478 Oversize Personnel Security Investigation Case Files, 1928–82, Civil Service Commission and Office of Federal Investigations, Records of the Office of Personnel Management, RG 478, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. PBA RG 121 Records of the Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, 1933–43, RG 121, NARA, Washington, D.C. PWN RG 46 Committee on Public Works 1946–68, Nomination Files 1947–68, Records of U.S. Senate, RG 46, Legislative Archives Center, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Remington RG 276 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, “United States vs. William Walter Remington, 132–344,” Transcripts of Record, 1950–53, Records of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, RG 276, National 196 Notes to Pages xxi–xxiii Archives and Records Administration—Northeast Region (New York City) Remington RG 21 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, “United States of America vs. William Walter Remington,” Stenographer’s Minutes, 1953, Records of District Courts of the United States, RG 21 National Archives and Records Administration—Northeast Region (New York City) Tamiment Tamiment Institute Archives, Bobst Library, New York Univ. TSLA Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville TVA RG 142 Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, RG 142, NARA— Southeast Region (Atlanta) TVA Tech TVA Technical Library, Knoxville, Tenn. UTSC Special Collections Library, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville UVA Special Collections Library, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville WHS Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison introduction 1. Quotation at the beginning of the chapter is from “Oral History Interview with Richard Niehoff (transcript),” 27 Sept. 1983, 56, Tennessee Valley Authority Oral History Collection, TVA Employee Series, TVA Tech. eBay description, “TVA, 1934–1936 Worker Diary,” in author’s possession, 5 Nov. 2001, http://www.ebay.com. 2. See, Society of American Archivists, “A Code of Ethics for Archivists with Commentary ,” at http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.asp, and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), “ACRL Code of Ethics for Special CollectionsLibrarians,”athttp://www.rbms.nd.edu/standards/code_of_ethics.shtml,both consulted 1 Feb. 2008. 3. On Mar. 4, 1936, the gates at Norris Dam closed. The first dam in the TVA system, named after Senator George W. Norris, brought flood control, electricity, and recreational opportunities to isolated areas on the upper Clinch River, just twenty-five miles northeast of Knoxville. 4. In February 1936, the Supreme Court in an eight-to-one decision ruled that TVA could generate and sell power at Wilson Dam, near Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The decision was a significant victory for the New Deal. George Ashwander et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936). 5. Myles Horton and Don West cofounded the Highlander School in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, as an adult education center. In addition to being interracial, Highlander maintained a radical curriculum based on unionization and socialist principles . John Glen, Highlander: No Ordinary School, 2nd ed. (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1996), 23. 6. See especially, Kenneth O’Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1983); and Gary May, Un-American Activities: The Trials of William Remington (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994). 7. Niehoff worked in the TVA Training Division as a midlevel administrator during the 1930s and amassed a considerable FBI file. 8. Permission from the individual or proof of their death is required for each FOIA request. The online Social Security Death Index (at http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb...