Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Belle Watkins papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1277
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from Anna Watkins' career in education, her family, and her community involvement. Included are materials that document her career as a teacher such as curriculum materials. In addition there is correspondence, the bulk of which are invitations to graduations from former students. There are also publications and correspondence from universities that she, Dewey Watkins Sr., and Myron Watkins attended, including Clark College and Atlanta University (which later...
Dates:
1923-1978, undated
Aubrey Williams transcript of "The Failure of Gradualism"
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS957f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcript of Aubrey Williams' speech, "The Failure of Gradualism" that that he presented in Atlanta, Georgia, before the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, a historically Black fraternity. In the speech, Williams calls for a united stand against States' Rights Democratic Party, commonly called Dixiecrat, politicians and white supremacists and argues against a gradualist approach to desegregation.
Dates:
1949
Maxey family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS37
Scope and Content
The collection includes photographs of Charles Lincoln Maxey, Sr., and other members of the Maxey family. The collection contains images of African American school groups at varying levels from one-room schoolhouses for elementary level children to college students. All are group photographs, primarily scenes posed before educational buildings, or graduation groups, and most are unidentified. Those identified include the Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, students at Fisk University...
Dates:
1910-1945
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- African American children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American college teachers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American photographers 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American women teachers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
- African Americans -- Segregation 1
- Black History Week 1
- Civil rights -- Georgia 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Clothing and dress 1
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fraternal organizations -- Georgia 1
- High schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Historically Black colleges and universities 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Georgia 1
- Racial justice -- Georgia 1
- Segregation -- Georgia 1
- White supremacy movements -- Georgia 1
- Women educators -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women educators -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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