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Content Description From the Series: Soon after Mrs. Hope arrived in Atlanta, she join a group of women who worked to provide day care centers for children living in the West Fair community. Their efforts culminated into the founding of the Neighborhood Union. This group of records chronicles the organization and history of the Neighborhood Union and its unique style of social work among African Americans in Atlanta. Most of the items are original documents including the Constitution of 1908, the charter of 1911, its first...

Content Description From the Series: Items found in this series represent the types of activities in which neighborhood Union were engaged. An example is a request from the Neighborhood Union to use the Roach Street School for a summer program. Among the numerous correspondents are Margaret Murray Washington, Booker T. Washington, H.L. Morehouse, Clara Sale (Ruggle Street Neighborhood House, Roxbury, Massachusetts), Eugene Kinkle Jones, Robert Moton, A.D. Williams (Martin Luther King's grandfather), Walter Chivers, Frankie...