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Effie Ward letters to Josephine Heyman
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS969f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters from Effie Ward to Josephine Heyman (1901-1993), the president of the DeKalb County League of Women Voters. In the first letter, Ward expresses her gratitude to the League for promoting equal education and services for Black children and briefly comments on the welfare of the Black community. She also offers to sew a dress for Heyman’s daughter. In the second letter, Ward writes about social conditions and challenges facing Atlanta’s Black community from...
Dates:
1946 February
O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. papers of Frances D. Green
Collection
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
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- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
- Atlanta Public Schools 1
- Grady High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Green, Frances D., 1910- 1
- H.O.P.E. Inc. (Help Our Public Education) (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Heyman, Josephine, 1901-1993 1
- Joseph E. Brown High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- League of Women Voters of DeKalb County 1
- Murphy High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Northside High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- O.A.S.I.S. (Organizations Assisting Schools in September)(Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Ward, Effie, 1899- 1 + ∧ less
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