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Rucker family

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates: 1810-1988, undated

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family photographs and lithographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS32
Scope and Content

The collection documents the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social life of members of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families from 1859 through the 1970s. The images document three generations of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families and visually chronicles their rise from slavery to social and political influence. It also provides visual documentation of African American life from Reconstruction to the late 20th century.

Dates: 1859-1979, undated

Nita Hughes Black manuscript

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS490f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a manuscript about the Peters plantation in Atlanta as well as genealogical data on Black, Peters, and Rucker families, and other papers.

Dates: circa 1911

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African American politicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
African American children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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African American neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American photographers 1
African American soldiers 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- 1900-1910 1
African Americans -- 1910-1920 1
African Americans -- 1920-1930 1
African Americans -- 1930-1940 1
African Americans -- 1940-1950 1
African Americans -- 1950-1960 1
African Americans -- Clothing -- Georgia 1
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Housing 1
African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Politics and government 1
African Americans -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans in the civil service -- Georgia 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership -- Georgia 1
Athletics -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1
Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Business records -- Georgia 1
Dixie Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fair Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fairview (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Historically Black colleges and universities 1
Lawton Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Legal instruments -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia 1
Rosser Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Simpson Road (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans 1
Voting -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Washington Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Whitaker Circle (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
White supremacy movements -- Georgia 1
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