Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Freddye Scarborough Henderson Family papers document the lives of Freddye Henderson and her family. The collection covers her family's involvement in creating the Henderson Travel Service, the first full-service African American travel service in Atlanta and the United States. The collection also throws light onto Freddye's educational background, highlighting her graduation from NYU's Master in Fashion and Merchandishing program as she was the first Black woman to do so, and her forays...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Freddye Scarborough Henderson Family papers document the lives of Freddye Henderson and her family. The collection covers her family's involvement in creating the Henderson Travel Service, the first full-service African American travel service in Atlanta and the United States. The collection also throws light onto Freddye's educational background, highlighting her graduation from NYU's Master in Fashion and Merchandishing program as she was the first Black woman to do so, and her forays...

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Craig Washington Papers contain information on the various LGBTQ organizations (such as AID Atlanta and Second Sunday), events (such as the annual Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast) and publications (including Southern Voice and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) that Craig Washington was involved in and interacted with since arriving to Atlanta.

Overview

The James Hiram Malone papers contain items from 1925-1995, with the bulk from 1990-1995, including Malone's resume, early photographs of Malone and his family, newspaper clippings from the Atlanta news leader and Atlanta news weekly including copies of his column Street beat, copies of his books, Brother and Malone's Atlanta, and his Black inventors' gift series paintings. The collection documents both his journalistic and artistic careers.