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...

Scope and Contents The Historic District Development Corporation Collection contains 114 rolled architectural plans. Included are neighborhood street maps, construction plans, property surveys, and building designs, sites that are all located in the Old Fourth Ward. Among these are Auburn Avenue Research Library (AARL) architectural sketches, site plans for Edgewood lofts, a large census tract map for the city, mayor Bill Campbell's approved plans for Atlanta's transportation and Solid Waste Services and...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the Sweet Auburn Curb (Municipal) Market papers spanning the years 1920 to 2013. It includes printed and published materials, such as newspaper and magazine clippings, but primarily features administrative documents. These documents include court records, lease agreements, correspondence, board meeting minutes, audits, financial statements, budgets, ledger booklets, and other managerial papers. Additionally, the collection contains several construction plans...

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...