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Ku Klux Klan, 1915-

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Frederick Swint Sr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS968f
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence between Charles F. Swint and governors Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946), Herman Talmadge (1913-2002), and Lester Maddox (1915-2003) about Swint's contributions to their political campaigns; and Eugene Talmadge's appointment of Swint to the 1946 Georgia Democratic State Convention as a delegate. There are also brochures, flyers, and receipts pertaining to racial segregation; the Ku Klux Klan; and Eugene Talmadge, Lester Maddox, and Swint’s political...
Dates: 1896-1970, undated

Jennie Meta Barker research papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates: approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967

Ku Klux Klan collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1238
Scope and Contents This collection contains material generated by the national organization, as well as local chapters, primarily the Realm of Georgia, of the Ku Klux Klan. Included are periodicals such as Kourier Magazine and The Imperial Knight-Hawk; financial, business, and membership papers; flyers and notices about Klan activities; and publications about ideology. Rhetoric throughout the collection is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic,...
Dates: 1916-1998, undated

Marion Johnson photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates: 1938-1975

Robert W. Miller essay "Extraordinary People: All Saints' and the Civil Rights Movement"

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS884f
Scope and Content This essay "Extraordinary People: All Saints' and the Civil Rights Movement" was delivered to the congregation of All Saints' Episcopal Church. In it Miller discusses how three parishioners; Elbert Tuttle, a judge and the chief judge of the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals; Ralph McGill, a columnist, editor, and publisher of The Atlanta Journal Constitution; and Reverend Frank Ross, the senior minister at the All Saints' Episcopal Church,...
Dates: 2013

Southern Voice records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1016
Scope and Content This collection contains editorial planning records and subject files for stories published by Southern Voice. These files include editorial planning meeting notes, story assignments, camera-ready art, and subject files on national and regional issues of crime, health, lifestyle, and politics concerning the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender community. The camera-ready art consists of photographs and graphics used in conjunction with published...
Dates: 1982-2007 undated

Southwind recordings and scripts

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1118
Scope and Content This collection consists of audio recordings and scripts created for the program, Southwind.Southwind programs consisted of one to three segments that featured original reporting either by Boyd Lewis or his colleagues in public radio throughout the Southeast. Many of the segments focused on contemporary events that Lewis placed in historical context, while other segments were retrospectives of past events that featured the...
Dates: 1980-1987

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated

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Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Medical care -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Police -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Racism -- Georgia 2
Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Segregation -- Georgia 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care -- United States -- Cost control 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Psychological aspects 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Research 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Statistics 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment 1
AIDS activists 1
AIDS vaccines 1
Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American baseball players 1
African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American household employees -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American politicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Georgia 1
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African Americans -- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Violence against 1
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Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Cities and towns -- Georgia 1
Cityscapes -- 1950-1960 1
Cityscapes -- 1960-1970 1
Cityscapes -- 1970-1980 1
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Clothing and dress -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Cotton textile industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Country music -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Court records -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
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DeKalb County (Ga.) -- History 1
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Distilling, Illicit -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Domestic terrorism 1
Education -- Study and teaching 1
Fires -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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Football teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay adoption -- Law and legislation 1
Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
Gays and sports 1
Government facilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Governors -- Georgia 1
HIV (Viruses) 1
HIV-positive persons 1
Hate crimes 1
Hate crimes -- United States 1
Hate groups -- United States 1
Historians 1
History -- Research -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Homophobia 1
Homosexuality -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Hotels -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Industries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Jews -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Journalism 1
Labor disputes -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Lesbianism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Lost Cause mythology 1
Medicine -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Mountains -- Georgia 1
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