Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Leon Sebring Dure

Primary Sources 
 

  • Family information provided by son, Leon S. Dure III (2008)

 

  • Marriage License, Bibb County Probate Court, Macon, Georgia

 

  • Leon S. Dure Papers, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama

 

  • Leon Sebring Dure Papers, Accession No. 9751, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

  • Dure's correspondence in:
    • J. Harry Michael Papers, Accession No. 10071 and 10071-a, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
    • Robert Whitehead Papers, Accession No. 6409-c, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

  • Dure's writings include:
    • "A Plan of Action" (paid political advertisement), Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 20, 1958
    • Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 8, 1961
    • "Virginia Has Taken Lead in Establishing New Freedom," Richmond News Leader, January 13, 1960
    • "The New Southern Response: Anatomy of Two New Freedoms," Georgia Review 15 (1961): 401–415
    • "Virginia's New Freedoms," Georgia Review 18 (1964): 3–16
    • "Individual Freedom Versus 'State Action,'" Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): 400–409


Secondary Sources 
 

  • James W. Ely Jr., The Crisis of Conservative Virginia: The Byrd Organization and the Politics of Massive Resistance (1976), esp. 129–130

 

  • Pamela Jane Rasche, "Leon Dure and the 'Freedom of Association'" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1977)

 

  • Andrew Ziet Glickman, "Virginia Desegregation and the Freedom of Choice Plan: The Role of Leon Dure and the Freedom of Association" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1991)

 

  • Earle Dunford, Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Story of a Newspaper (1995), 103–105

 

  • James H. Hershman Jr., "Massive Resistance Meets Its Match: The Emergence of a Pro-Public School Majority," in Matthew D. Lassiter and Andrew B. Lewis, eds., The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (1998), 104–133


Newspapers and Periodicals 
 

  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 15, 1935

 

  • Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): lxvi

 

  • Hardy Cross Dillard, "Freedom of Choice and Democratic Values," Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): 410–435


Obituaries 
 

  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 10, 1993