Blackburn, Ruby Parks, 1901-1982
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Ruby Parks Blackburn papers
Collection
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
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- African American beauty operators -- Georgia 1
- African American librarians--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 1
- African American librarians--Georgia. 1
- African American women--Georgia--Societies and clubs. 1
- African American women--Georgia. 1
- African Americans--Georgia--Political activity. 1
- African Americans--Political activity--Georgia. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs. 1
- Beauty shops--Georgia. 1
- Business records 1
- Community development--Georgia. 1
- Georgia--Politics and government--1951- 1
- Libraries and community--Georgia. 1
- Libraries and minorities--Georgia. 1
- Library science--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Social integration -- Georgia 1
- Women librarians -- Georgia 1 + ∧ less
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