Alice J. Kinder and William M. Justice papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Alice J. Kinder and William M. Justice papers
- Date
- 1904-1994, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Justice, William M. (William McKinley), 1893-1968
- Extent
- 1.8 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Appalachian authors
- Authors, American -- Kentucky.
- Authors -- Correspondence.
- Education -- Appalachian Region
- Education -- Kentucky.
- Poets, American.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 97m1 : [identification of item], Alice J. Kinder and William M. Justice papers, 1904-1994, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Born on November 27, 1893, in Pike County, Kentucky, William McKinley Justice was an Eastern Kentucky educator for forty years, a published writer, and a lecturer. Responsibility for helping his family with farm work prevented him from attending school for much of his childhood, and he did not attend regularly until he was fourteen. By age eighteen, however, he had earned an eighth grade teaching certificate and bagan teaching in Pike County schools. Justice continued his education by taking high school courses when the county schools were not in session and graduated from Pikeville High School in 1926. Justice then attended Berea College where he graduated with a B.A. in 1929.
- Justice was a well-known writer in Eastern Kentucky, and his poems appeared in various journals, magazines, and collections. One of his patriotic poems was read by Seantor Adlai Stevenson before the United Nations assembly. He was the author of five books of poetry: Tears and Laughter and Other Poems, A Man, a Woman, and God, Acorns of Gold, This Way Lies Peace, and Take Time to Stroll. He died in 1968.
- Justice's daughter, Alice J. Kinder (1921-1995), followed in her fathers footsteps. She published many books on mountain people and Eastern Kentucky culture, including Willie-Boy, The Call of the Kentucky Mountains, which she adapted using her father's unpublished manuscript, "The Midnights are Mine".
- Scope and Content
- Alice J. Kinder and William M. Justice papers (dated 1904-1994, undated; 1.8 cubic feet; 4 boxes) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and printed materials pertaining to the life and work of Eastern Kentucky poet and author William M. Justice. The bulk of the collection consists of disassembled scrapbooks compiled by William M. Justice's daughter, Alice J. Kinder. They comprise original copies of his poems, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed materials, documenting his career as a writer and educator in Pike County, Kentucky. Several of the scrapbooks consist of his correspondence with, newspaper clippings about, and manuscripts by a variety of Eastern Kentucky authors and educators. Notable figures covered by the scrapbooks include James Still, Jesse Stuart, Lillie Chaffin, Lucia Clark Markham, Sylvia Trent Auxier, Ruby Dell Baugher, Grace Noll Cromwell, Edwin Litsey, Cotton Noe, and William J. Hutchins.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
William M. Justice writings, 1940-1950, undated
Alice J. Kinder writings, 1968, 1994
Biographical sketches, 1989-1991, undated
Scrapbooks, 1904-1992, undated
Scope and Contents
Arranged biographically, these scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, photographs and booklets by and about William Justice, Alice Kinder, Jesse Stuart, and other Eastern Kentucky writers as well as educators and business-people. Compiled by Alice Kinder, the scrapbooks have been kept intact except for removing the materials from the original binders and photocopying newspaper clippings.
"William M. Justice on his writing" scrapbook 1, 1918-1977, undated
"William M. Justice on his writing" scrapbook 2, 1925-1970, undated
"Jesse Stuart Album" scrapbook, 1934-1992, undated
- Box 3, folder 1-3
Scope and Contents
Duplicate photographs in this album were removed and placed in envelope located at end of Folder 3.
Scrapbook of Eastern Kentuckians 1, 1904-1963, undated
Edmund Vance Cooke, 1904-1933, undated
J. T. Cotton Noe, 1939-1952, undated
Dorothy Parker, 1940 May 26
John Erskine, 1938-1939
Edwin Carlisle Litsey, 1939 December 3
Rollo Walter Brown, 1943-1956, undated
James Still, 1929-1940
Rufus Reed, 1953-1956
Shelby Elam, 1957 February 1
Grace Noll Cromwell, 1939-1954
Ruth Bryan Rohde, 1949
T.W. Vinson, 1942-1943
Mary Larkin Cook, undated
Florence Hale, 1943-1960, undated
William Wallace Ellis, 1944
Maud Sparks Crawford, 1953-1963, undated
James Watt Raine, 1934
Ruby Dell Baugher, 1939-1944
Scrapbook of Eastern Kentuckians 2, 1938-1977, undated
Truda Williams McCoy, 1941-1962, undated
Sylvia Trent Auxier, 1948-1967, undated
Dawn Flanery Parker, 1956-1960, undated
Madge Ann Pinson, 1938-1955, undated
Lois Smith Hiers, 1959-1977
Christine Goodman, undated
Lillie D. Chaffin scrapbook, 1952-1992, undated
William H. Danforth scrapbook, 1949-1956, undated
Lucia Clark Markham scrapbook, 1940-1941, undated
William J. Hutchins, President of Berea College, scrapbook, 1934-1958
Mary Lavinia Silva, The Old Oaken Bucket file, 1952-1957, undated
Lucien V. Rule, An Old Country Church, 1913
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