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Austin T. Walden papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS614
Scope and Content This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Austin T. Walden. The papers are primarily office files and case briefs from his law career. Additional material includes correspondence, financial papers, membership information, political campaign documents, speeches, and marketing and outreach material from various organizations. The collection contains materials from the many organizations to which Walden belonged or defended in court, such as the NAACP, the Atlanta Negro...
Dates: 1900-1969, undated

Charles Longstreet Weltner films

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Collection number: ahc.VIS360
Scope and Content This collection documents the political life of Charles Longstreet Weltner and the built landscape of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1950s and 1960s. Film footage highlights a variety of Weltner's campaign activities including him walking on the sidewalk through a blighted Atlanta neighborhood; Weltner looking over the city of Atlanta from the top of the Merchandise Mart; and scenes most likely used for campaign ads. Included are street scenes of downtown Atlanta, with views of public and...
Dates: approximately 1958-1966, undated

Chris Mastin photographs of protest marches

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Collection number: ahc.VIS399
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital images taken by Chris Mastin of the March for Science Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally in Atlanta, and the Women's March on Washington. Photographs in this collection depict protesters holding signs and marching in downtown Atlanta and Washington D.C. The Women's March on Washington photographs also include images of protesters traveling on a charter bus from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.

Dates: 2017-2018

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

Herbert Jenkins photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS43
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of photographs of Police Chief Herbert Jenkins and Atlanta Police Department personnel throughout Jenkins' career. Noteworthy images of Jenkins include photographs of him as a child, a portrait taken on his first day as a police officer, and a photograph of him being sworn in by Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Other images of note include a series of photographs of the Summerhill riot of 1966, pictures of the first African American patrolmen, and portraits...
Dates: 1890s-1975, undated

League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County Records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS394
Scope and Contents of the Records Through correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications and printed material, the collection documents the activities the League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County and its relationships to national and state leagues, from 1917-1982. Subject files, the bulk of the collection, document the efforts of the group to promote political participation among the citizens of Atlanta and covers topics ranging from segregation to juvenile delinquency, as well as various city ordinances....
Dates: 1917 – 1982

Lesbian and Gay Pride Week proclamations

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Collection number: ahc.MSS799f
Scope and Content This collection contains three government-issued proclamations. The first was issued by Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, proclaiming that June 21-27, 1993 was "Lesbian and Gay Pride/Human Rights Week" in the City of Atlanta. The second was issued by Mary Davis, member of the Atlanta City Council, also proclaiming that June 21-27, 1993 was "Lesbian and Gay Pride Week" in Atlanta. She further proclaimed that June 28, 1993 was "Stonewall Anniversary Day" in the City of Atlanta. The...
Dates: 1993

Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates: 1900-1993, undated

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

Sam Massell papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS695
Scope and Content

This collection contains a wide variety of material on the life and career of Sam Massell, Jr. It offers an excellent look at the careers of Sam Massell both as a political figure and as a businessman. There is also information relating to the many civic, political, and business organizations in which Sam Massell was involved. There are thirteen different series with topics such as Civil Rights, speeches, political information, trips, news releases, etc.

Dates: 1889-1983, undated

Southwind recordings and scripts

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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

Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts

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Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates: 1988-1989

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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 6
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 3
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Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 2
Atlanta Urban League 2
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Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 2
Resurgens Atlanta 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
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Boxill, Nancy A. 1
Butler Street YMCA (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Carty, Rico 1
Cheatham, Gwen 1
Citizens Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Collier, Charles A. 1
Community Planning Council, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Creecy, Howard, Jr. 1
Day, Norma 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Fielder and Allen (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Forward Atlanta Commission 1
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Gate City Bar Association (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Gellerstedt, Lawrence L., 1926-2003 1
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Georgia Institute of Technology 1
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Glenn, John T. 1
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Green, Frances D., 1910- 1
H.O.P.E. Inc. (Help Our Public Education) (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 1
Hemphill, William A. 1
Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004 1
Holman, M. Carl, 1918-1988 1
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International Association of Chiefs of Police 1
Ivan Allen-Marshall Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ivan Allen-Marshall Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Johnson, Aaron, 1931- 1
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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Joseph E. Brown High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore) 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
Key, James Lee, 1867-1939 1
King, Charles Benjamin, 1925-1991 1
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