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Atlanta. Atlanta, GA

 Record Group
Identifier: Atlanta

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Neighborhood Union collection

 Collection — Box 1-15
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0050
Scope and Content The records of the Neighborhood Union Collection include correspondence, speeches, financial reports, minutes, committee reports, news clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks and additional memorbilia preserving a rich legacy and history of one of the earliest private social welfare organizations founded by African American women in Atlanta. The collection reveals much about its founder, Lugenia Burns Hope and the interrelationships of social service agencies and pioneers in this field...
Dates: 1908-1961

David Roberts oral history collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0053
Scope and Contents The David Roberts oral history collection was created by Roberts, an Atlanta University student, in the summer of 1973. The interviews were for a history seminar taught by Dr.Clarence Bacote (HIS 406: Introductory Graduate Course in United States History). Roberts interviewed members of Atlanta’s African-American community who were born in the late 19th century. Most of the subjects were Georgia natives and a few were graduates of Atlanta University Center schools. He asked them to discuss...
Dates: 1973

Rucker, Aiken, Mollison, Harper family papers

 Collection — Box 1-53
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0089
Scope and contents

Rucker, Aiken, Mollison, Harper Family Papers cover the years between 1890 and 1992, with the bulk of the materials dated between 1950 and 1992. The collection consists of materials from each of the eight Rucker siblings. Many of the series include correspondence, legal, and financial documents as well as photographs. In some of the larger series, artwork, information about organizational memberships, medical information and materials from their respective careers are included.

Dates: 1890-1992; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1992

Southern Regional Council papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0058
Scope and contents The Southern Regional Council papers, 1944-1968 offer scholars a unique opportunity to explore fields of inquiry that just now coming of age because of the historical perspective that passage of time has afforded. The papers provide rich and varied documentation of peculiarly southern problems, not the least of which have been race, and the difficult, ongoing struggle for black equality. University Microfilms International is pleased to make this important body of records more widely...
Dates: 1944-1968