Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

Overview The collection contains items from 1922 to 1956 that document life in Atlanta's African American community -- and about Ann N. Cooper and her husband, dentist Albert Berry Cooper, in particular. It includes a daybook, two scrapbooks, a magazine, correspondence, a brief biography of Ann Cooper prepared for the Utopian Literary Club, photographs, and posters. Of particular note are the aviation scrapbook compiled by Albert Cooper containing information about African American pilots; a...