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General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library
Collection
Identifier: aarl94-004
Overview
The collection consists of videotapes and cassette tapes of the General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library from 1994-ongoing. The collection contains interviews with a variety of individuals including African American businessmen and women, journalists, educators, librarians, community and civil rights activists. The materials document civil rights activities in Atlanta (Ga.), businesses in the Sweet Auburn District of Atlanta, the...
Dates:
1994-1999
Living Atlanta oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: aarllivingatlanta
Overview
Taped interviews, radio programs, transcripts of some of the interviews, material relating to funding, and background research, of the oral history project Living Atlanta: an Oral History of the City Between the World Wars, produced by Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting Foundation between 1977 and 1978. Topics include Atlanta Crackers baseball team, blues, business, economic conditions, education, Jews, Ku Klux Klan, police, politics and government, race relations, and social life. Persons...
Dates:
1977-1985
Sweet Auburn Neighborhood Project oral history interviews
Collection
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
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- Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations. 2
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs. 2
- Auburn Avenue Neighborhood (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Civil rights movements--Georgia. 2
- Sound recordings 2
- African American athletes -- Georgia 1
- African American businesspeople -- Georgia 1
- African American journalists--Georgia. 1
- African American librarians--Georgia. 1
- African American soldiers--Georgia. 1
- African American teachers--Georgia. 1
- African Americans--Georgia--Economic conditions. 1
- African Americans--Georgia--Social conditions. 1
- African Americans--Georgia. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Business, industries, and trades. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Cultural affairs--Music. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Economic conditions. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Education. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--History. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Population elements--African Americans. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Population elements--Jews. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Radio and television broadcasting. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Societies, etc.--Nativism. 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Baseball--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Baseball--Georgia. 1
- Blues (Music)--Georgia. 1
- Depressions, 1929--Georgia. 1
- Education--Georgia 1
- Fires--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Georgia--Business, industries, and trades. 1
- Georgia--Cultural affairs--Music. 1
- Georgia--Economic conditions. 1
- Georgia--History, Local. 1
- Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950. 1
- Georgia--Population elements--African Americans. 1
- Georgia--Population elements--Jews. 1
- Georgia--Race relations. 1
- Georgia--Radio and television broadcasting. 1
- Georgia--Social life and customs. 1
- Georgia--Societies, etc.--Nativism. 1
- Interviews 1
- Jews--Georgia. 1
- Minor league baseball--Georgia. 1
- Nativism. 1
- Police--Georgia. 1
- Race relations. 1
- Racism--Georgia. 1
- Radio broadcasting--Georgia. 1
- Riots--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Secret societies--Georgia. 1
- Urban-rural migration -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- White supremacy movements -- Georgia 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans 1 + ∧ less
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- General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library. 1
- Hill, Jesse, 1927- 1
- Pennington, T. Maurice, 1923- 1
- Sweet Auburn Neighborhood Project (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
- United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd 1
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