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APPLE Corps, Inc. records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1252
Scope and Contents This collection serves as an example of a grassroots neighborhood organization which was formed to improve the quality of public schools. The collection contains records that document the founding, history, and activities of APPLE Corps, Inc. Included in the collection are administrative files, annual reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial records, presentations, and workshop materials. Publications of APPLE Corps represented in the collection include its newsletter,...
Dates: 1974-2003, undated

Atlanta Assessment Project on Atlanta Public Schools documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1182
Scope and Content This collection contains reports created by the Atlanta Assessment Project about the Atlanta Public School System. These reports outline the goals for the Atlanta Public School System, as well as how to reach these goals. The collection also contains reports on the school system for years prior to the project, as well as papers on the history of the city. Of particular note are critiques written by Atlanta residents on one of the reports that concern the economy, demographics, employment,...
Dates: 1917-1973, undated

Austin family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1230
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Eugene and Dorethia Austin’s high school diplomas and graduation programs from Buford Colored High School, a newspaper clipping about Eugene Austin speaking at Poplar Hill Baptist Church in Buford, Georgia, and a plaque honoring his induction into the United States Supreme Court as an attorney and counselor.

Dates: 1949-1976, undated

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

Bazoline E. Usher papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates: 1921-2005, undated

Civil Rights Movement collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS748f
Scope and Content This collection contains fliers, pamphlets, mailouts, and statements from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia. Subjects addressed in the documents include racial relations in the south, school segregation, African-American voting, civil rights demonstrations, and memorials to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some materials in this collection pre-date the recognized beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, in 1954. Of particular note is a handbill from Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to boycot...
Dates: 1934-1991, undated

Clarence Bacote papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS935
Scope and Content The Clarence Bacote papers include correspondence, news clippings, and research papers, but are primarily composed of publications. The papers focus on the activities of African Americans in the south. As an African American history professor at a southern black university, Dr. Bacote's papers reflect his ongoing mission to gain a stronger understanding of the political and social evolution of blacks in the south. This mission included the study of those blacks who had previously achieved...
Dates: 1936-1980, undated

H.O.P.E., INC. (Help Our Public Education) records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS427
Scope and Contents of the Records The H.O.P.E., Inc. records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, and printed and published materials generated by the organization. The bulk of the collection are newspaper clippings which document the school closure crisis in Virginia, Arkansas, and Georgia. The clippings are drawn from Georgia newspapers including The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta Constitution, Northside Neighbor, Augusta Courier, Marietta Daily Journal, and ...
Dates: 1954-1961, undated

Horace T. Ward papers

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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

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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

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

Raymond Rosenfeld papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1258
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents written and collected by Raymond Rosenfeld during his doctoral studies at Emory University and his work at the Community Council of the Atlanta Area, Inc. (CCAA). The bulk of the documents from CCAA are reports and evaluations conducted by the Research Evaluation Center on social services in Atlanta. There is also research pertaining to his dissertation about Atlanta Public Schools desegregation such as articles, reports, and surveys. In addition, there are...
Dates: 1966-1973, undated

Roland M. Frye papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1222
Scope and Contents

This collection contians letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and emphemera that document Roland Mushat Frye Sr's work integrating schools and universities in Atlanta, Georgia. The bulk of the collection focuses on his work with Help Our Public Education (HOPE) and the Southern Presbyterian Church.

Dates: 1954-2022, undated

Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS375
Scope and Content This collection contains images and architectural drawings of buildings designed or renovated by Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers, and the earlier iteration of the firm, Burge and Stevens. Also included are drawings from other firms collected by Stevens & Wilkinson, most notably Abreu & Robeson, Inc. Of special note are photographs and drawings of the Piedmont Driving Club, Techwood Homes, Georgia Baptist Hospital and the William-Oliver building. Also included are...
Dates: approximately 1919-2005, undated

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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 2
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APPLE Corps, Inc. 1
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Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
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