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Alston and Glenn family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975

Atlanta Department of City Planning records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1268
Scope and Contents This collection contains meeting minutes from the Atlanta Department of City Planning and its boards and committees, including the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board, Board of Zoning Adjustment, Zoning Review Board, and the Planning and Development Committee. The minutes include summaries from public hearings and executive meetings about decisions pertaining to zoning requests and discussions about city-wide redevelopment. Specifically, the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board,...
Dates: 1920-1997, undated

City of Atlanta Records

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Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates: 1848-2013, undated

Committee to Stop the Children's Murders rally announcement

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Collection number: ahc.MSS965f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an announcement for a national rally, titled Rendezvous for Life's Sake, sponsored by the Committee to Stop the Children's Murders and organized at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. The announcement lists groups that endorsed the rally, including the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees; and the National Black Human Rights Commission.

Dates: 1981

Fred L. Howe Cotton States and International Exposition Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS145
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographs taken by Fred L. Howe at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Photographs in the collection contain images of buildings and grounds, and exhibitions featuring advances in transportation, electricity, forestry, agriculture, and art. Other photographs of exhibitions feature Confederate history, African American and Native American culture and history, and the Liberty Bell on loan from the city of Philadelphia. The collection also illustrates...
Dates: 1895

George Mason Coleman scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1233
Scope and Contents This collection contains scrapbooks that document George Mason Coleman’s career as a journalist in Atlanta. The bulk of the material is newspaper clippings of his work at Atlanta Daily World including cartoons, poems, articles, and photographs about the Civil Rights Movement, the African American community in Atlanta, legal affairs, and race relations. In addition, there is a scrapbook of correspondence from corporations and individuals praising his work as...
Dates: 1947-2006, undated

John Wallace Malone letter to Senators Harry F. Byrd and Walter F. George

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Collection number: ahc.MSS963f
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter that John Wallace Malone wrote to United States senators Harry F. Byrd (1887-1966) of Virginia, and Walter F. George (1878-1957) of Georgia. Both Democratic senators supported racial segregation. In the letter, Malone uses racist rhetoric to argue that "Southern people do not hate Negroes" and that the Federal government should allow states to make decisions regarding race relations. To support his argument, he references instances of supposed racial harmony...
Dates: 1948 March 1

Ku Klux Klan collection

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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

Leander Newton Trammell interview recording and transcript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS808f
Scope and Content This collection consists of an audio recording containing an interview between Trammell and his friend, Van Hall, as well as the interview transcript. In the interview, Trammell recounts his personal experiences as a gay man in Atlanta during the 1950s and 60s. Trammell talks substantially about his life as a closeted gay man and the measures that he and his partner, Bill Camp, took to conceal their sexual orientation. Trammell also discusses his aversion to gay activism, saying that he...
Dates: 2007

O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. papers of Frances D. Green

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Collection number: ahc.MSS374
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, memoranda, and committee reports that Frances D. Green (1910-?) collected from O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. Included in the files are O.A.S.I.S. articles of association, by-laws, handwritten meeting notes, correspondence, and membership lists. The correspondence contains a description of groups and individuals identified by H.O.P.E. as distributors of “hate-literature” opposing integration. Of particular note is a letter and...
Dates: 1955-1961, undated

Resurgens Atlanta documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS659
Scope and Contents This collection documents Resurgens Atlanta’s operations, committee membership, and executive board activities. Material includes by-laws, meetings notes and minutes, attendance records, and correspondence from members and prospective members that contain applications, resumes, and invitations to social events. In addition, there are financial records such as bank statements and invoices that detail administrative costs, no-show fees, and bills. Of particular note are booklets and...
Dates: 1970-1986, undated

Rich's, Inc. records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1245
Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the downtown Atlanta flagship store and retail stores throughout the Southeastern United States. Included in the collection are annual reports, biographical materials of founding members and executives, business history, employee publications, employee training materials, lists of officers and directors, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, and scrapbooks, as well as materials on store openings and expansions, promotions, and special events....
Dates: 1877-1988, undated

Southline Press, Inc. photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS158
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains images of people, places, and events, most of whom were represented in news stories and other features in Southline. Images of people include political and civic leaders, religious leaders, professionals, entertainers, journalists and authors, athletes, and the general public. Among the photographs are images of Marvin Arrington, Roy Barnes, Julian Bond, Mike Bowers, Bill Campbell, Shirley Franklin, Pierre Howard, Maynard Jackson, Joseph Lowry, Billy McKinney,...
Dates: circa 1985-1989, undated

Voices Across the Color Line oral history recordings

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Collection number: ahc.VIS180
Scope and Contents of the Records The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events mentioned include the student movement centering on Atlanta University; The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR); creation and publication of the Atlanta Enquirer newspaper; the organization of the Atlanta Committee of Cooperative Action (ACCA), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and activities to desegregate city buses and restaurants. Other topics that are discussed...
Dates: 2005-2006

WPBA Southern Bases documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1220
Scope and Contents This collection documents the WPBA television program Southern Bases which focused on baseball in the south, particulary the integration of Major League Baseball in the 1940s. Documents include periodicals, such as magazines, annuals, articles, and newsletters, as well as articles collected for research. Of particular note are oral history transcripts conducted with retired and active Major League Baseball players. There are also two editions of ...
Dates: 1917-1993, undated

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