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Bishop Frederick Douglass Jordan Book Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0127
Scope and Contents Note

The Bishop Frederick D. Jordan Collection was originally donated to Morris Brown College by Bishop Frederick D. Jordan and included 10 books and two artifacts. It was transferred to the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library in 1981, when one library was formed to serve the Atlanta University Center Schools. The Collection consists of ten books primarily on religion and the AME church.

Dates: 1818-1911
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Jordan Chambers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0226
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a manuscript of a 1979 article on Chambers' life along with corresponding photographs that are cited in the manuscript. The collection also includes a transcript of the memoir written by Chambers with notes from his youngest daughter Carrie Chambers.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970 - 1979
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Aku Kadogo papers, 1971-2018

 Collection — Box: 1-5, OS 1-6
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0160
Scope and Contents The collection documents the multifaceted career of Aku Kadogo as a director, performer, choreographer, and educator. The Aku Kadogo papers span the years from 1975 to 2018, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1978 to 2004. It is comprised of personal papers, productions, photographs, and audiovisual materials.The Productions Series is the largest series in the collection documenting Kadogo’s work as a director, performer, choreographer, and educator. This series also...
Dates: 1971-2018
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Martin Luther King Fellows In Black Religious Studies, Inc. collection

 Collection — Box: 1-12
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0048
Scope and Contents note The Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows, Inc. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, curriculum materials, financial documents, reports, photographs, printed publications, memorabilia, and media.The bulk of the collection dates from 1972-1975, with some material dating up to the present. This collection gives insight into the many facets of the Black Church and Black Religious Studies. Some of the significant correspondents with Henry H. Mitchell (director of the M.L.K....
Dates: 1969-1990
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Willis J. King papers

 Collection — Box: 1-24
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0124
Scope and contents

The Willis J. King Papers are comprised of correspondence, printed materials, photographs and other memorabilia that document Bishop Willis J. King's life as a Bishop in the Methodist Church, his time as a missionary in Africa and Norway, and as an educator.

Also within this collection are personal and family documents of Bishop King's wife Emma P. King, including photographs and family history.

Dates: 1904-1976
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Lillian Lewis collection

 Collection — Box: 1-7, OS 1
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0099
Scope and contents The Lillian Lewis collection primarily consists of materials related to the career of Lillian Lewis. Major topics are governmental work and librarianship. Formats include photographs, printed materials, correspondence, meeting minutes, committee work, and reports. The seven series contain correspondence received by both Lillian Lewis and John Lewis, events and activities from John Lewis’s life and career, photographs, pamphlets, and forms from National Association of Media Women,...
Dates: 1963, 1965, 1969-1980, undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1979
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

C. Eric Lincoln collection

 Collection — Box: 1-415
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0047
Scope and contents The C. Eric Lincoln collection (1909-2000) documents the life's work of the leading scholar on the Black Church and Black Religion in the United States. As a sociologist of religion, Dr. Lincoln is the co-author of the definitive study on the Black Church in America, a massive fourteen year inquiry into the most important institution in the African American community. Dr. Lincoln's career,. however, was not exclusively devoted to writing about the Black Church. In 1961, his doctoral...
Dates: 1904-2000
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series collection

 Collection — Box: 1-9
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0093
Scope and contents

This collection contains speeches, programs, flyers and posters related to the C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series hosted by Clark Atlanta University.

Dates: 1983-2009
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Collection

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Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-00210
Scope and contents

This collection's materials are comprised of papers, photographs, documents, and ephemera about the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. The collection includes photographs, programs, and posters from events hosted at the Chapel, personal and professional papers of Dean Carter from his tenure as Dean of the Chapel and the papers of Lamar Alford during his time as dramatist in residence at Morehouse College.

Dates: 1942 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989
Found in: AUC Institutional Records

William B. Matthews collection

 Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-00049
Scope and contents This collection consists of the papers of William Baxter Matthews from 1881 to 1932. It includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed materials, most of which pertain to Atlanta University. The bulk of the materials relates to Matthews’s tenure on the Atlanta University Board of Trustees. Correspondence from Edward Twichell Ware (Atlanta University’s third president) and fellow trustees documents the administration of the school, including fundraising efforts, land...
Dates: 1881-1932
Found in: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.

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Underground Atlanta, Inc 3
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Bell, Eldrin 2
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008 2
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