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Abraham Lincoln (A.L.) Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl90-007
Overview

The collection consists of one box with six folders containing minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of Bethune-Cookman College (1937, 1944, 1945), the College's 1937 annual report, the fortieth anniversary bulletin of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company (1941), and ephemera.

Dates: 1937-1945

Atlanta University collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl89-017
Overview

The collection contains documents spanning the dates from 1865 to 1989, with the bulk of the material from the period 1882-1865, and relating to the history and operation of Atlanta University and later Atlanta University Center, including newspaper clippings, ephemera, presidential reports, general correspondence, financial documents, photographs, legal documents, and essays, memoirs, and speeches.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1882-1965; Bulk, 1882-1965 1865-1994 1882-1965

Black History Month Essay Contest Collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl-ephemera03
Scope and Contents The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System began "The Black History Essay Contest" in 1976 as part of its Black History Month celebration. The purpose of the contest was to provide an opportunity for individuals of all ages to express their opinions and ideas and promote research on selected topics relating to the African-American experience. Interested participants were invited to submit an essay, restricted to one thousand (1000) words or less, in one of the four divisions established by the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1977 - 1992

Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Georgia) Class of 1956 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl017-001
Scope and Contents note

This Collection Consists of correspondence, programs, financial records, invitations to reunions, Newspaper clippings of ceremonies, awards, and rosters of the Booker T. Washington class of 1956 dating from 1956-2016. Over half of this collection consists of pictures from various reunions between 1972-2011. Also included are decorations and clothing to commemorate the reunions.

Dates: 1956-2016

Charmayne Johnson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl004-007
Scope and Contents note The Charmayne Johnson family papers, 1900-1998, include awards, certificates, cards, church bulletins, correspondence, funeral programs, materials related to education, legal documents, newsletters, photographs, yearbooks, and other items collected by various members of the Brooks and Johnson families. A portion of the collection consists of papers related to the education of Albert and Georgia Brooks. These include but are not limited to school assignments and report cards, alumni...
Dates: 1900-1998, undated

David Crawford Stills papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl018-004
Scope and Contents

This collections includes events and programs, correspondence, business and personal papers, sheet music, songbooks, organizations, certificates and awards, books, publications, photographs, audiocassettes and CDs. The Stills collection also includes certificates, correspondence and personal papers for Atlanta musician and educator Ernest Prather.

Dates: 1953 - 2017

Dr. Claude C. George, Jr. family papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl96-015
Overview The collection contains six volumes of Capital Avenue Elementary School publications from 1972 through 1973, Cooper Street Elementary School publications from 1970 through 1972, biographical information about Atlanta educator Dr. Claude C. George, Jr. and other family members, clippings from the Atlanta constitution and Atlanta daily world from 1957 through 1964, pamphlets, periodicals, essays, and other publications relating to the Atlanta public schools (1974-1990), and a diploma from...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1971-1990; Bulk, 1971-1990 1912-1996 1971-1990

Dr. Robert (Bob) A. Holmes papers

 Collection
Identifier: aarl011-003
Scope and Contents

The Dr. Robert A. Holmes Papers cover the years 1916 to 2018. The collection contains materials from his time in the Georgia legislature his consultations and his writings. Specific materials include; correspondence, awards, programs, published journals and essays, unpublished essays, handwritten and typed manuscripts, campaign materials, legislature, press releases, photographs and audio visual material.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1916 - 2018

Drexel Catholic High School alumni collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl95-020
Overview

The collection contains yearbooks, textbooks, information on the birth of the high school, general correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and artifacts including class rings, a sweatshirt, and a trophy documenting student life and school operations at Drexel Catholic High School in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1964 through 1967.

Dates: 1964-1967

Ellie Lee Weems photograph and photographic negatives collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl89-014
Overview The photographs series contains photographs taken in Jacksonville, Fla. by Ellie Lee Weems, an African American photographer, from the years 1928 through 1975 with subjects including awards and honors; business and commercial personalities and establishments; church and civic groups; entertainers and celebrities; families; funerals; graduation exercises and cap and gown cameos; landscapes; Masonic orders and related auxiliaries; performing arts; portraits of children, women, and men;...
Dates: 1928-1979

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Atlanta University 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Georgia State University 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
Young, Jean Childs 2
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Afro-American Life Insurance Company 1
Apex Museum 1
Association of Black Women Historians (U.S.) 1
Atlanta Junior College 1
Atlanta Public Schools 1
Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.) 1
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brevard, Lisa Pertillar 1
Brooks family 1
Brooks, Albert Irvin, 1908-1997 1
Brooks, Belle Bishop, 1910-1988 1
Butler family 1
Butler, Henry Rutherford, 1862-1931 1
Butler, Henry Rutherford, 1899-1988 1
Butler, Selena S., 1872-1964 1
Caliver, Ambrose, 1894-1962 1
Capital Avenue Elementary School (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.) 1
Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cooper Street Elementary School (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
Drexel Catholic High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Gammon Theological Seminary 1
George family 1
George, Claude Clarence, 1922- 1
Hawk, DeLoys, 1933-1981 1
Holmes, R. (Robert A. ), 1943- 1
Hope, John, 1868-1936 1
Hornsby, Alton 1
Johnson family 1
Johnson, Charmayne, 1953- 1
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Lewis, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1865-1947 1
Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.) 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change 1
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Morris Brown College 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Atlanta Branch 1
National Conference on Fundamental Problems in the Education of Negroes (1934 : Washington, D.C.) 1
National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers 1
SciTrek. 1
Spelman College 1
U.S. National Commission on the International Year of the Child, 1979 1
UNICEF 1
United States. Department of Interior 1
Weems Photo Studio (Jacksonville, Fla.). 1
Weems, Ellie Lee, 1901-1983 1
White House Conference on Child Health and Protection 1
Whiting, Helen Adele Johnson, 1885-1929 1
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