Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Primary Sources 
 

• Birth date and place self-reported in Military Service Records, World War I History Commission Records, Record Group 66, Accession no. 37219, Library of Virginia

• Marriage Register, Culpeper County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia

• some items in Papers of Collins Denny, 1872–1943, Accession No. 2672, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

• Denny to J. Segar Gravatt, February 22, 1962, Papers of John Segar Gravatt, 1941–1999, Accession no. 11584, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

• Denny, Vote for the Constitution: Section 141 of the Constitution of Virginia Must be Amended in Order to Save Educational Opportunities for the Children of the Commonwealth (1955)

• James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008)

Secondary Sources 
 

• David Pembroke Neff, "The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, 1954–1957," Master's thesis, Old Dominion University (1992)

Newspapers 
 

• Quotation in South Boston Halifax Gazette, October 27, 1957

• Denny's support of Massive Resistance documented in Defenders' News and Views, published Aug. 1955–May 1959

Obituaries 
 

• Richmond News Leader, January 15, 1964 (with editorial tribute)

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 15 1964

• New York Times, January 16, 1964

• Washington Post, January 16, 1964

• Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1964), 167–169