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Atherton Drug Store, 1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Collection number: Series 1

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

The majority of content in this series documents Hamilton Lokey’s brief career as a legislator in the Georgia General Assembly. Included are campaign form letters to voters, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and transcripts of campaign addresses he gave on local television and radio. The series includes publications of the League of Women Voters of Atlanta and copies of a political newsletter titled The Fairview of Bare Facts. The series also contains copies of speeches Lokey delivered between 1955-1979 on the reapportionment of the Georgia Legislature, school desegregation, crime, and the rule of law. Other material includes newspaper clippings documenting the school desegregation crisis in Georgia in the 1950s, poems written by Lokey, and a copy of his published autobiography The Low Key Life of Ham Lokey.

Dates

  • 1964

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Series: 1.25 linear ft.

Language

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

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