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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

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0199
Content Description

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, circa 1900-2019, 1950-2013 (bulk), consists of correspondence, personal papers, and writings of Joseph E. Lowery and Evelyn G. Lowery; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) records; SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now (SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.) records; subject and research files; printed and published material including SCLC Magazines and newspapers; memorabilia; photographs; and audio/video recordings.

Dates: circa 1900-2019; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2013

John H. Wheeler collection

 Collection — Box: 1-225
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0133
Scope and contents note This collection documents the life and work of John H. Wheeler, a businessman, bank president, community leader, civil rights activist, and lawyer. The collection spans the years from 1897 to 1978 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1950-1978. The majority of the collections consists of items related to the organizations that Wheeler was associated with, both local to Durham, NC and national organizations. Included in the collection are materials related to Wheeler's career as a...
Dates: 1897-1978; Majority of material found within 1940-1978

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Correspondence. 5
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Oratory. 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Public appearances. 4
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 8
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 6
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 6
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 6
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
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Southern Regional Council 5
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 5
Abernathy, Ralph 4
Congress of Racial Equality 4
United States. Congress. House 4
United States. Congress. Senate 4
AFL-CIO 3
American Friends Service Committee 3
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (U.S.) 3
McDonald, Dora E., 1925-2007 3
National Urban League 3
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972 3
Southern Conference Educational Fund 3
Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago 2
Arrington, Marvin S. 2
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 2
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971 2
Citizens’ Crusade Against Poverty 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.) 2
Eskridge, Chauncey, 1917-1988 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBellville), 1922- 2
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 2
Lowery, Joseph E. 2
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984 2
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 2
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 2
United States. Office of Economic Opportunity 2
United States. Office of the Vice President 2
Wachtel, Harry H., 1917-1997 2
Wheeler, John H (John Hervey) 2
Wofford, Harris 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. 1
A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000 1
Alexander, Clifford L., 1933- 1
Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016 1
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Committee on Africa 1
American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa 1
Ashman, Richard 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Aviation 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Finance 1
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Law 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Public Safety, Bureau of Fire Services 1
Atlanta Business League 1
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 1
Atlanta Community Relations Commission 1
Atlanta Economic Development Corporations 1
Atlanta Housing Authority 1
Atlanta Regional Commission 1
Atlanta University 1
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 1
Atlanta Urban League 1
Atlantans for Maynard Jackson 1
Baez, Joan 1
Banta, Lucille 1
Barry, Marion, 1936-2014 1
Belafonte, Harry, 1927- 1
Bell, Colin W., 1903-1988 1
Bell, Eldrin 1
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008 1
Blackwell, Randolph T., 1927-1981 1
Boone, Richard W. (Richard Wolf), 1927-2014 1
Booth, L. Venchael, 1919- 1
Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993 1
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 1
Boyte, Harry G., 1911-1977 1
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006 1
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975 1
Brazeal, Aurelia Erskine (Rea) 1
Brazeal, Brailsford R. 1
Brazeal, Ernestine Erskine 1
Brazeal, Ernestine Walton 1
Brest, Archie 1
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 1
Campbell, Bill, 1953- 1
Capp, Al, 1909-1979 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Chalmers, Allan Knight, 1897- 1
Chicago Urban League 1
Citizens' Trust Company 1
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005 1
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French 3
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Italian 1