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Sources consulted for the biography of:Harry Branham Davis (1893–1987)
Primary Sources
- Self-reported birth date in World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1917–1918), Record Group 163, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Princess Anne County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (parents given as J. F. Davis and J. O. Davis)
- March 18, 1931 deed of marriage separation and other materials in Harry B. Davis Papers, Henry Clay Hofheimer II Library, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia
- Davis's correspondence in:
- Martin Ashton Hutchinson Papers, Accession no. 7736, 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
- James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008)
Secondary Sources
- Stephen S. Mansfield, "Harry B. Davis," Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach Historical Society Newsletter 1 (spring 1998)
- Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954–1956 (1962)
Newspapers
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, April 10, 1959; April 14, 1959; May 31, 1959; July 2, 1959; July 16, 1959 (with variant vote total of 5,889 to 4,383)
- quotation in Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Portsmouth Star, July 2, 1959
- Washington Post, July 6, 1959
- Virginia Beach Sun-News, July 16, 1959
- Feature article in Virginia Beach Beacon, February 12/13, 1981
Obituaries
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star, July 19, 1987
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