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Andrew Young candidacy collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS806f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to Andrew J. Young's candidacy in the 1972 Georgia Congressional election. These documents include ephemera promoting Young such as mailings, pamphlets, and bumper stickers; materials outlining his political positions; a pamphlet about the general voting process; a biography; a copy of the Andrew Young Campaigner; and a list of voters in favor of and leaning towards Young.
Dates:
1972, undated
Austin T. Walden papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
J. J. Gonzalis collection of political and civic ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS123f
Scope and Content
This collection contains Atlanta political and civic ephemera, including an invitation to a reception at the Commercial Club; ballots, tickets, and a ribbon for the Prohibition party; a ballot for a bond election; a slate of candidates under the White Democratic Primary in Atlanta in 1896; an Anti-Barroom ticket; cards for the election of Governor, State Senator and other officials, including Woodrow Wilson for President of the United States; a ticket for the election of Mayor W. A....
Dates:
1892-1919, undated
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
MacDougall Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS228
Scope and Content
The Papers of Robert and Margaret MacDougall consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings and scrapbook pages, and brochures and other printed materials. Many of these papers concern MacDougall’s work as an engineer, work as an administrator of the Works Progress Administration and his activities working with the city of Atlanta, particularly in the development of the expressways through the city and the bond issues to finance the projects. A second portion of these papers concern the...
Dates:
1924-1977
Roy Bell campaign documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS857f
Scope and Content
This collection documents Roy Bell's 1952 campaign for the position of city Alderman for the 4th Ward. Included are ballots and pamphlets from the Negro Voters League and the League of Women Voters, campaign postcards for other candidates, a bumper sticker, and campaign speeches. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and a draft of the 1952 act to create a new charter for the City of Atlanta.
Dates:
1952-1953, undated
Voices Across the Color Line oral history transcriptions
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS990
Scope and Content
The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events that are mentioned include the student movement centering around 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...
Dates:
2005-2006
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- Aiken family 1
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- Aiken, Walter Henry, 1893-1965 1
- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
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- Atlanta Daily World (Firm) 1
- Atlanta University Center (Ga.) 1
- Atlanta Urban League 1
- Bell, Roy (Willian Roy), 1908- 1
- Black, Charles A. 1
- Bolden, Willie 1
- Boone, Alethea Williams 1
- Butler Street YMCA (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Clark College 1
- Clayton, Xernona 1
- Coleman, George, 1922-2008 1
- Curry, Constance 1
- Dillard, Morris 1
- Douglas, Lydia 1
- Dove, Pearlie C. 1
- Edge, Robert 1
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
- Fisk University 1
- Fowlkes, William 1
- Gaines, Billie Davis 1
- Gate City Bar Association (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Georgia Association of Citizens Democratic Club 1
- Georgia Institute of Technology 1
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- Glustrom, John 1
- Gonzalis, J. J. 1
- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- H.O.P.E. Inc. (Help Our Public Education) (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hampton Institute 1
- Hill, Jesse, 1927-2012 1
- Holmes, Herbert 1
- Hornsby, Alton 1
- Hudson, John Davis 1
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore) 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
- King, Lonnie 1
- Knights of Pythias. Uniform Lodge (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Lokey, Muriel 1
- Long family 1
- Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901 1
- Luker, Ralph 1
- MacDougall family 1
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- MacDougall, Robert Leak 1
- McDow, Thomas F. 1
- Merchandise Mart (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- National Association of Real Estate Brokers 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Sunday School Publishing Board 1
- National Bar Association 1
- National Negro Business League (U.S.) 1
- Negro Young People's Christian Association 1
- Parham, Johnny 1
- Pendergrast, Nan 1
- Potts, Portia Harden 1
- Powell, Faye Bellamy 1
- Republican Party (Ga.) 1
- Ricks, Willie Floyd 1
- Rucker family 1
- Rucker, Annie Eunice Long, 1865-1933 1
- Rucker, Henry Allen, 1852-1924 1
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- Smith, John B. 1
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
- Southern Regional Council 1
- Southwest Bar Association 1
- Swann, Ernest 1
- United States. Congress. Senate 1
- United States. Works Progress Administration 1
- Vivian, C. T. 1
- Wade, Lyndon A. (Lyndon Anthony) 1
- Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas) 1
- Warner, Clinton E. 1
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
- Weltner, Charles Longstreet 1
- YMCA of Metro Atlanta 1
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