William Hicks and Marjorie Alma Tice McIver Papers, 1882-1974

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Summary

Creator:
McIver, William Hicks, 1898-1979 and Hicks, Marjorie Alma (Tice), 1898-1982
Abstract:
The McIvers lived in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the early and mid-20th century. This collection contains postcard albums with examples of tourism postcards and seasonal or holiday cards collected by William McIver's family in the 1910s-1920s, as well as letters sent to Marjorie McIver from elected officials responding to her opinions on pending legislation, like the Bardon Education Bill. The collection contains examples of anti-Communist and anti-Catholic pamphlets and printed materials from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a Pickrick Drumstick autographed by Lester Maddox. These drumsticks were wooden pick ax handles were used to threaten Black Georgia Tech students seeking to integrate the Pickrick Cafeteria restaurant in Atlanta in 1964, and later used as segregationist symbols sold as souvenirs during Maddox's 1966 gubanatorial campaign.
Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet (2 document boxes)
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11888

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains 3 postcard albums with examples of tourism postcards and seasonal or holiday cards collected by William McIver's family, largely his sister, Mattie McIver, during the 1910s. There is a folder of letters sent to Marjorie McIver from elected officials responding to her opinions on pending legislation. Topics include Congressman Graham A. Barden's Federal Aid to Education Bill, prayer in public schools, President Kennedy's tax proposal, and the Vietnam War. The collection contains examples of anti-Communist and anti-Catholic pamphlets and printed materials from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a Pickrick Drumstick autographed by Lester Maddox. These drumsticks were wooden pick ax handles were used to threaten Black Georgia Tech students seeking to integrate the Pickrick Cafeteria restaurant in Atlanta in 1964, and later used as segregationist symbols sold as souvenirs during Maddox's 1966 Georgia gubanatorial campaign.

Biographical / historical:

According to U.S. Census and Virginia marriage records, William Hicks McIver was a white man born August 13, 1898 in Sanford, North Carolina, to Abigail Chaffin and John Henry McIver. He worked as a tobacco foreman in the 1930s and married Marjorie Tice Marshall, then a widow, on March 28, 1932. Marjorie was a white woman born July 4, 1898, in Columbus, Indiana.

William served in World War II, but we are not sure in what capacity. The couple lived in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and had no children. William McIver died on January 8, 1979. Marjorie died on October 8, 1982, in Durham, North Carolina.

It has been challenging to learn more about the history of this family. Census research confirmed that Mattie McIver, the recipient of many of the postcards held in the collection, was William's older sister, who was born in approximately 1893 in Germanton, N.C.

Acquisition information:

The William Hicks and Marjorie Alma Tice McIver Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from Roger L. Marshall in 1981.

The original accession included unmounted and loose postcards, which were filed in the Postcard Collection at the point of acquisition, in 1981.

Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2021

Accessions described in this collection guide: Acc. 2-25-81.

Collection reviewed and re-described in March 2021 as part of the Rubenstein Library Technical Services inclusive description initiative.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Propaganda, Anti-communist
Nativism
Racism -- United States -- History
Postcards -- Collectors and collecting
Postcards -- United States
Race discrimination
Anti-Catholicism
Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
Names:
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003
McIver, Mattie F, 1893-
Places:
Winston-Salem (N.C.)

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[Identification of item], William Hicks and Marjorie Alma Tice McIver Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.