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Sources consulted for the biography of:Armistead Mason Dobie (1881–1962)
Primary Sources
- Variant birth date of April 14, 1881 in Norfolk City Birth Register and Birth Register, Norfolk City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in Military Service Records, World War I History Commission Records, Accession 37219, Record Group 66, Library of Virginia.
- Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in passport application, July 18, 1923, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in World War II Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1942), Record Group 147, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Armistead Mason Dobie Papers, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Some Dobie letters in John Paul Papers, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Corbin et al. v. County School Board of Pulaski County, Virginia, et al. (1949), Federal Reporter, 2d ser., 177:924–928, quotation on 928.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in W. Hamilton Bryson, ed., Legal Education in Virginia, 1779–1979: A Biographical Approach (1982), 196–202, with bibliography of publications and portrait facing 197.
- Biography in Washington and Lee Law Review 55 (1998): 490–493.
- Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (1977 ed.), 485–506.
- John Ritchie, The First Hundred Years: A Short History of the School of Law of the University of Virginia for the Period 1826–1926 (1978), 71–75.
Newspapers and Periodicals
- Feature article in Saturday Evening Post, December 28, 1940, condensed in University of Virginia Alumni News 29 (1941): 71–72.
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, July 23, 1958
- Richmond News Leader, May 16, 1939; May 17, 1939; December 19, 1939; February 1, 1956
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 17, 1939; December 17, 1939; January 20, 1956
Obituaries and Memorials
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, August 8, 1962; August 10, 1962 (editorial tribute)
- New York Times, August 8, 1962
- Richmond News Leader, August 8, 1962; August 9, 1962 (editorial tribute)
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 8, 1962; August 9, 1962 (editorial tribute)
- Washington Post, August 8, 1962
- Memorial in Federal Reporter, 2d ser., 311:5–29.
- Memorial in Virginia Law Review 49 (1963): 1079–1081.
- Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1963), 160–167.
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