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Lynching -- Georgia -- Marietta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jennie Clarke photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS350
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Clarke family, images of the Atlanta Terminal Station in 1969, and a photograph of a 1940 lynching near Marietta, Georgia.

Dates: 1869-1969, undated

Oliver family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS959f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a poem by John S. Madden dedicated to John E. Oliver, titled "Halloween"; Madden's obituary; a postcard commemorating the lynching of Leo Frank; a letter from Herman Talmadge thanking Lidu "L. E." Olver for contributing to his Georgia gubernatorial campaign; correspondence about Jesse Ricketson Armstrong's service in the Confederate States Army and his wife, Kate Farr Armstrong's, pension.

Dates: 1915-1947, undated