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Atlanta (Ga.)--History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

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