African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Anderson family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS42
Scope and Content
The Anderson family photographs consist of albumen prints, a cabinet card, photographic postcards, and individual and group portrait prints in studio settings and exterior snapshots around the Atlanta, Georgia area. Most of the images are unidentified men, women, and children. Identified individuals include a cabinet card of Jessie M. Anderson, a postcard image of George Ballard, and portrait prints of Alberta Adams, Alberta Anderson, and Ella Mae Matthews. Of interest is a photograph of a...
Dates:
approximately 1920-1945
Benjamin E. Mays photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS40
Scope and Content
The images consist of portraits of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, primarily at public events such as graduation ceremonies or committee meetings during his tenure as the president of Morehouse College. Other photographs consist of Mays with other individuals or groups, including faculty members. Most of the group photographs are identified by event only and include general faculty or administrators posed in cap and gown, consisting of Benjamin E. Mays; Charles E. Merrill, Chairman, Board of Trustees,...
Dates:
approximately 1947-1981
Bowen family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS38
Scope and Content
The collection of photographs encompasses images of the Bowen family. The bulk of the photograph collection consists of images of studio poses and bust portraits of Reverend Bowen and his second wife, Irene Smallwood Bowen, and of John Wesley Edward Bowen, Jr., including Bowen, Jr. in a class photograph. Other images are unidentified studio poses and a postcard with an image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which shows King enjoying a joke by comedian Joey Adams at a benefit for the Southern...
Dates:
approximately 1889-1963
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1162
Scope and Content
This collection contains personal documents from Dr. Louis W. Sullivan. Materials include a 60th high school reunion program, family correspondence and genealogy papers, Morehouse Alumni Club agendas, booklets from Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) correspondence. MSM correspondence includes employment paperwork, budget discussions, an annual report to the board of trustees, and letters from Morehouse College regarding the creation of the Medical Education...
Dates:
1946-2018, undated
Horace T. Ward papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1264
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the professional and personal papers of the Honorable Horace Taliaferro Ward. Records include articles and newspaper clippings, awards, court case documents, and event programs. Also included are speeches and publications from organizations of which Ward was a member such as the National Bar Association. Additionally, there is correspondence with Ward's mother, Minnie Harrison, and records from Ward's wife, Ruth LeFlore Ward. Of particular interest is correspondence...
Dates:
1939-2016, undated
John Wesley Dobbs letter to Roy D. McClain
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS960f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter written by John Wesley Dobbs on Prince Hall Grand Lodge stationary to Rev. Roy D. McClain. In the letter, Dobbs contests McClain’s sermons that promote racial segregation and limiting African Americans' access to higher education. Dobbs uses the Bible to argue that Black's should have access to higher education not only because they are Americans, but because it would help improve the country's economy and progress. He also contends that integration is a...
Dates:
1956
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
Lucinda Bunnen photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS395
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs taken for Movers and Shakers in Georgia by Lucinda Bunnen and Frankie Coxe. The collection includes images of notable political, business, cultural, and arts figures between 1976-1978 in Georgia. Also included are photographs of events such as Jimmy Carter's presidential election, a Decatur Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) planning meeting, the Ramblin' Raft Race on the Chattahoochee River, an Atlanta...
Dates:
approximately 1976-1978
Maxey family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS37
Scope and Content
The collection includes photographs of Charles Lincoln Maxey, Sr., and other members of the Maxey family. The collection contains images of African American school groups at varying levels from one-room schoolhouses for elementary level children to college students. All are group photographs, primarily scenes posed before educational buildings, or graduation groups, and most are unidentified. Those identified include the Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, students at Fisk University...
Dates:
1910-1945
Millie J. McCreary diary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS226f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a diary of Millie J. McCreary, a teacher at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary (later Morehouse College). She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1858. She married another of the teachers, William P. Manguse. The diary mentions several fellow teachers and the activities of Atlanta Baptists, the Colored Baptist Mission Society convention in Atlanta, Spelman College, and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
Dates:
1895-1896
Postcard collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS93
Scope and Contents
This collection contains postcards that depict scenes in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Most of the images are of man-made structures in Atlanta including Agnes Scott College, Atlanta Municipal Airport (now Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport), Biltmore Hotel, Booker T. Washington High School, Bulloch Hall, Candler Building, Capitol City Club, City Hall, Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), Atlanta Cyclorama at Grant Park, English-American (Flatiron) Building, Fort...
Dates:
1899-1990, undated
William J. Floyd school papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS958f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an autograph book in which teachers and classmates wrote notes to William Joseph Floyd as well as a 1931 graduation program from Booker T. Washington High School. There is also a March 1929 edition of Atlanta University Alumni Association's The Crimson and Gray from 1929.
Dates:
1929-1931
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