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Janice White Sikes collection on Southern culture
Collection
Identifier: aarl96-003
Overview
The papers span from 1927 to 1998 with the bulk from 1980 to 1998 and consist of correspondence, printed material, financial and legal documents of the West End Neighborhood Development, Inc. from 1976 to 1998 as well as articles, clippings, correspondence, and research collected by Sikes related to African Americans in the South, various neighborhoods in Atlanta including Summerhill, Midtown, Sylvan Hills, Bedford Pines, and Vine City, and historic preservation and urban renewal.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1980-1998; Bulk, 1980-1998 1927-1998 1980-1998
John Wesley Dobbs / Prince Hall Masons Collection
Collection
Identifier: aarl016-001
Scope and Contents
The John Wesley Dobbs / Prince Hall Mason Collection consists of 2.5 linear feet of materials, 1950 to 1968. Arranged in two series: Personal papers, and Photographs which appears to be items that belong to Mr. Joseph Phinazee.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990
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
Oral history interviews of the Atlanta 1950-1979 Oral History Project
Collection
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 the...
Dates:
1974-1980
William L. Calloway papers
Collection
Identifier: aarl95-004
Overview
The collection contains items from 1969 through 1991 including a photograph of William L. Calloway with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Georgia State Senator Leroy Johnson; an autographed copy of " The 'Sweet Auburn Avenue' Business History, 1900-1988"; a print by Tom Range of a young boy fishing in a paper cup; and a framed certificate presented to William L. Calloway.
Dates:
1969-1991
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- Atlanta (Ga.)--History. 2
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- Administrative records 1
- African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American librarians--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- African Americans--Georgia--Political activity. 1
- African Americans--Georgia. 1
- African Americans--Southern States--History. 1
- Articles 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--20th century. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Photographs. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Population elements--African Americans. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Population elements--Jews. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Radio and television broadcasting. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Societies, etc.--Nativism. 1
- Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)--Economic conditions. 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Baseball--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Baseball--Georgia. 1
- Blues (Music)--Georgia. 1
- Books 1
- Certificates 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Community development--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Correspondence 1
- Education--Georgia 1
- Georgia--Business, industries, and trades. 1
- Georgia--Cultural affairs--Music. 1
- Georgia--Economic conditions. 1
- Georgia--History, Local. 1
- Georgia--History--20th century. 1
- Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950. 1
- Georgia--Politics and government. 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
- Historic preservation--Georgia--Atlanta. 1
- Interviews 1
- Jews--Georgia. 1
- Minor league baseball--Georgia. 1
- Nativism. 1
- Oral histories (literary works) 1
- Police--Georgia. 1
- Prints (visual works) 1
- Race relations. 1
- Racism--Georgia. 1
- Radio broadcasting--Georgia. 1
- Secret societies--Georgia. 1
- Urban renewal -- Citizen participation 1
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) -- History 1
- White supremacy movements -- Georgia 1 ∧ less
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- Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 1
- Calloway, W. L., (William L.), 1908-1999 1
- Hill, Jesse, 1927- 1
- Junior League of Atlanta 1
- Lee, Sanford Henry, 1878-1958 1
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