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Oral history interview with Annie L. McPheeters

 Collection
Identifier: aarlOHC92-001
Overview The collection consists of the transcript of an oral history interview with Annie L. McPheeters on June 8, 1992 conducted by Kathy Nasstrom, of the Georgia Government Documentation Project at Georgia State University. During the interview, McPheeters discusses why she became a librarian; library's 1930 adult education program; John Wesley Dobbs; black libraries provide information for political, civic and voters leagues; Dr. Clarence A. Bacote; Reverend William Holmes Borders; Warren Cochran...
Dates: 1992

Oral history interviews of the Atlanta 1950-1979 Oral History Project

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Identifier: aarlatlanta
Overview The collection consists of the 111 audiocassette tapes and 76 transcripts recording oral history interviews that form the "Atlanta, 1950-1970 Oral History Project" conducted by the Atlanta Public Library and the Junior League of Atlanta and interviewed over eighty Atlanta residents between the years 1974 and 1980 in order to supplement existing printed resources in local history and biography from those years. The project was intended to portray the personal observations and expressions of...
Dates: 1974-1980

Pitts Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl98-011
Overview

The Pitts Family Papers contains letters, photographs, and a family history written in April 2000. The one (1) box collection that contains information from 1938 to 2000.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1900-1940; Bulk, 1900-1940 1900-2000 1900-1940

Portia Allen Hunt family papers

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Identifier: aarl95-021
Overview

The Portia Allen Hunt family papers includes obituaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, and correspondence from the period of 1959 to 1992 and documents the Hunt family's life in Atlanta with an emphasis on Portia Allen Hunt.

Dates: 1959-1992

Ruby Parks Blackburn papers

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Identifier: aarl89-001
Overview The collection consists of papers of Ruby Parks Blackburn from 1933-1982. The papers include correspondence, financial records, minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, ledgers, ephemera, and political broadsides. The materials document Blackburn's involvement with the T.I.C. (To Improve Conditions) Club, the Atlanta Cultural League, and Ruby's Beauty Shop. Of particular interest are minutes (1954-1956, 1971-1976) and voter lists (1965-1975) of the Georgia League of Negro Women Voters and minutes...
Dates: 1933-1982

Sweet Auburn Curb (Municipal) Market collection

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Identifier: aarl016-003-2
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the Sweet Auburn Curb (Municipal) Market papers that span the years between 1920 and 2013. It includes printed and published materials such as newspaper and magazine clippings but mainly administrative documents. These are court documents, lease agreements, correspondences, board meeting minutes, audits, financial statements, budgets, ledger booklets, and other managerial papers. There are several construction plans for the market's renovation project in this...
Dates: 1920 - 2013

Sweet Auburn Neighborhood Project oral history interviews

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Identifier: aarl93-002
Overview The collection consists of oral history interviews and transcripts of interviews of residents and merchants in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia in 1978. The interviewees discuss personal background, social and economic conditions among the African American residents of Sweet Auburn, recollections of the riot of 1906, the fire of 1917, the Depression, the Butler Street Urban Renewal Project (1950s), cross-town migration, and the civil rights movement. The collection also...
Dates: 1978

The 27 Club records

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Identifier: aarl91-006
Overview The collection consists of the records of The 27 Club (Atlanta, Ga.) from 1949-1969. The records include correspondence, by-laws, memoranda, membership rosters, guest lists, financial records, and minutes documenting the activities and interests of the club regarding the participation of African Americans in society and civil rights. The materials contain information on accommodations for African-American athletes in Atlanta (Ga.), funds for Charlayne Hunter, donations for those in need, and...
Dates: 1949-1969

Thomasville Heights neighborhood project collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl96-004
Overview

The collection consists of photographs, slides, an audiotape recording of a visit through the Norwood community, and creative writings of the students, including "Change Agent Stories" and original poems about the Thomasville Heights community created between 1995 and 1996.

Dates: 1995-1996

WERD oral history interviews

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Identifier: aarl90-008
Overview The collection consists of twenty segments compiled and produced by Harold Lamar and broadcast from October 3-7, 1989 on radio station WVEE-WAOK (Atlanta, Ga.). The segments document the history of radio station WERD from 1949 until its demise in 1970. Topics discussed include the purchase of WERD by Jesse B. Blayton, moving the station from downtown Atlanta to Auburn Avenue, Jesse B. Blayton and the Blayton family, the relationship between black and white announcers or staff at the station,...
Dates: 1989

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Atlanta (Ga.) 18
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations. 7
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African American women--Georgia--Societies and clubs. 5
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Atlanta (Ga.)--Business, industries, and trades. 4
Auburn Avenue Neighborhood (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
African American business enterprises -- Georgia 3
African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
African American librarians--Georgia. 3
African American neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta--History. 3
Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government. 3
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs--20th century. 3
Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)--History. 3
Business records 3
Community life--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
Oral histories (literary works) 3
Sound recordings 3
Voter registration -- Georgia 3
Administrative records 2
African American athletes -- Georgia 2
African American business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
African American businesspeople -- Georgia 2
African American churches -- Georgia 2
African American civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
African American entertainers--United States. 2
African American journalists--Georgia. 2
African American men--Georgia--Societies and clubs. 2
African American pharmacists--Georgia. 2
African American photographers--United States. 2
African American teachers--Georgia. 2
African American women--Georgia. 2
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
African Americans--Civil rights. 2
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
African Americans--Georgia--Political activity. 2
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African Americans--Georgia. 2
African Americans--Government policy--Georgia--Atlanta 2
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. 2
African Americans--Political activity--Georgia. 2
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century. 2
African Americans--Religious life--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
African Americans--Societies, etc. 2
Atlanta (Ga.)--Education. 2
Atlanta (Ga.)--History. 2
Atlanta (Ga.)--Photographs. 2
Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century. 2
Audiocassettes 2
Certificates 2
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
Civil rights movements--Georgia. 2
Community development--Georgia. 2
Correspondence 2
Cultural Organizations---Black---American 2
Discrimination in employment--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
Education--Georgia 2
Financial records 2
Georgia--Business, industries, and trades. 2
Georgia--Politics and government. 2
Greek letter societies--Georgia. 2
Programs (documents) 2
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta. 2
Race relations. 2
Racism--Georgia. 2
Scrapbooks 2
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta 2
Sheet music 2
Women librarians -- Georgia 2
Affirmative action programs -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Africa -- Photographs 1
African American Congregationalists -- Georgia 1
African American arts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American beauty operators -- Georgia 1
African American churches -- Southern States 1
African American civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American clergy -- Georgia 1
African American clergy -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American college administrators -- Georgia 1
African American educators--Georgia. 1
African American families--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
African American gay men 1
African American gay men--Social life and customs--20th century 1
African American lesbians 1
African American lesbians--Georgia--Atlanta--Social life and customs--20th century 1
African American lesbians--Social life and customs--20th century 1
African American librarians--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 1
African American librarians--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
African American mayors--Georgia--Atlanta 1
African American musicians--Georgia. 1
African American neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 1
African American nurses--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
African American nurses--Georgia--History. 1
African American nurses. 1
African American nursing schools. 1
African American police--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
African American police--Georgia--Decatur. 1
African American politicians--Georgia. 1
African American radio stations--Georgia. 1
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Language
English 42
 
Names
Young, Andrew, 1932- 4
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 3
Atlanta Life Insurance Company 2
Atlanta University 2
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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Blackburn, Ruby Parks, 1901-1982 2
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 2
Hartsfield, William Berry 2
Hill, Jesse, 1927- 2
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
McPheeters, Annie L. 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
27 Club (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Allen family 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 1
Amos Drug Store (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Amos, India D., 1908-1979 1
Amos, Miles G., 1898-1995 1
Amos, Moses, 1866-1928 1
Andrews, Ludie, 1875-1969 1
Atlanta Community Relations Commission 1
Atlanta Council on Human Relations. 1
Atlanta Cultural League (Ga.). 1
Atlanta Housing Authority 1
Atlanta Negro Voters League 1
Atlanta Public Library 1
Atlanta Public Library. Auburn Branch 1
Atlanta Public Library. West Hunter Branch 1
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History 1
Bacote, Clarence A., 1906-1981 1
Bennette, Fred C., 1928-1994 1
Blayton family 1
Blayton, Jesse B., Sr., 1897-1977 1
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993 1
Bowen, Margaret Davis, -1976 1
Boy Scouts of America. 1
Brayboy, Ella Mae, 1919- 1
Brooks, Hallie Beachem 1
Brown, Henry N. 1
Calloway, W. L., (William L.), 1908-1999 1
Carter, Edward Randolph, 1856-1944 1
Cochran, Warren 1
Collins, Helen J., 1911- 1
Community Council of Atlanta (Ga.). 1
Council on Battered Women (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Daniels, Anthony (Tony), 1965-1998 1
Darden, Marian 1
Decatur (Ga.). Police Department 1
Democratic Party (Ga.) 1
Dobbs, John Wesley, 1931- 1
Evelyn Jones Cafe (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Frazier's Cafe Society (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Frazier, Evelyn J., 1912-2007 1
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Furlow, Florine D., 1903-1987 1
Furlow, Henry J., 1902-1986 1
General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library. 1
Georgia Government Documentation Project. 1
Georgia State University 1
Georgia. General Assembly. Committee on Schools 1
GoodWorks International. 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.). Municipal Training School for Colored Nurses. 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.). School of Nursing. 1
Greene, Charles W., -1974 1
Harris, Joe Frank 1
Haugabrooks, Geneva, 1890-1977 1
Herndon, Alonzo, 1858- 1
Herndon, Norris B., 1897-1977 1
Hunt family 1
Hunt, Portia Allen, 1922-1992 1
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne 1
Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. Delta Chapter. 1
Jackson, Graham Washington, 1903-1983 1
John Wesley Dobbs Elementary School (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Junior League of Atlanta 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kilgore, Annabelle Thompson, 1924- 1
King family 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
King, Nina 1
Knights of Pythias 1
League of Negro Women Voters of Georgia. 1
Lee, Sanford Henry, 1878-1958 1
Lewis, Andrew Jackson, 1909-1989 1
Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- 1
Links, Inc.. Atlanta Chapter 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change 1
Martin, Eugene M., 1888-1969 1
Matthews, W. B., (William B.) 1
Metropolitan Atlanta Association for the Blind. 1
Metropolitan Atlanta Republican Women's Club. 1
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